Which Way Was North

Anne Pierson Wiese was born in Minnesota, raised in New York City, where she lived for many years, and currently resides in South Dakota with her husband, writer Ben Miller. Her first poetry collection, Floating City, received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Additional honors for her work include the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and a Discovery/The Nation Poetry Prize.

Anne Pierson Wiese's hauntingly direct poems take us into the bone vault of America, where we can hear a heartbeat. She is a graceful, quietly exact, masterful poet." - Henri Cole"Wiese's poetry teaches us that the distance is not between Sioux Falls and Brooklyn, between nature and machinery, between lifeblood and graveyard, it is 'between tasting and living.'" - Shawkat Toorawa"Wiese's new book is a marvel of energy and observation." - Willard Spiegelman