Shana Youngdahl sees her work as exploration, and draws inspiration from questions of identity, history, and landscape. She is the author of the poetry collection History, Advice and Other Half-Truths (2012), a finalist for the Maine Book Award in Poetry; and chapbooks Donner: A Passing (2008), Of Nets (2010), and Winter/Windows (2013). Educated at Mills College and the University of Minnesota, she is an Assistant Professor of English at U Maine Farmington, where she co-directs the Longfellow Young Writers’ Workshop.