Craig Nielson is a poet, architect, climber, and explorer of desert landscapes. He writes, designs, climbs, and explores from his home base in the central Rockies of Colorado. He is the founding member of the Southern-Colorado-based performance-poetry troupe River City Nomads and co-organizer of the quarterly live poetry event “Season of Words” in Salida, Colorado.
His first collection of poems, Touch of Grace, was published by Ghost Road Press in 2005. His work has appeared in Pilgrimage, Mountain Gazette, and Colorado Central Magazine, along with the anthologies A Democracy of Poets, Open Windows 2005, and Telling It Real, and the chapbook, On Stage: River City Nomads.
Paperback: 114 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (April 23, 2025)