Donna L. Potts

Donna L. Potts is Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Washington State University, USA. She is the author of two books about poetry, Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism: The Influence of Owen Barfield (1992) and Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition (2011), as well as a book of her own poetry, Waking Dreams (2012). She lived in Galway while holding a Fulbright Lecturing Award at the National University in Ireland from 1997 to 1998, returning there on sabbatical from 2004 to 2005, and again, for a fellowship in the NUIG Irish Studies Centre, from 2011 to 2012.