C L Rawlins

Rawlins, C. L.

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Jelm, WY 82063

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C. L. Rawlins was born in Laramie and lives a windblown life in Wyoming. Schooled at Utah State and Stanford, he worked with the Forest Service from 1977-92 as a firefighter, range rider, and field hydrologist. In 1989, he won the USFS National Primitive Skills Award. Since leaving the Forest Service, Rawlins has been an advocate for wilderness and wildlife, serving with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and from 1997-99 as president of the Wyoming Outdoor Council. From 1982-1997 he was poetry editor for High Country News, and in 1999, visiting writer at the University of Wyoming. Rawlins' poetry appears in Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales, Chicago Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Quarterly West, and many other journals. His first book, A Ceremony on Bare Ground (1985) was followed by a Stegner Fellowship to Stanford University. His second book of poems, In Gravity National Park (University of Nevada, 1998) won the 1999 poetry prize from the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association. He's written two nonfiction books, Sky's Witness: A Year in the Wind River Range (Henry Holt, 1993) and Broken Country: Mountains & Memory (Henry Holt, 1996), and co-authored The Complete Walker IV with Colin Fletcher (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).