Tami Haaland is the author of two books of poetry: When We Wake in the Night, and Breath in Every Room, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize. Her poems have appeared in a variety of periodicals and anthologies, including The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press) and Literature: An Introduction (Pearson). Haaland’s work has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry. She served as Montana’s fifth poet laureate from 2013-15 and teaches at Montana State University Billings, where she currently chairs the Department of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages.