Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an award-winning literary biographer, essayist, and poet. Her latest books include the biography Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and her fourth poetry collection West : Fire : Archive (The Center for Literary Publishing, 2021).  Her next biography Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb forthcoming from the University of California Press in Fall 2024.