<b>Sonja Swift</b> is a writer and poet of hybrid forms. She has published a range of poems as well as various articles and photo essays. Her work has appeared in <i>Dark Matter: Women Witnessing</i>, <i>Langscape Magazine</i>, <i>Catamaran Literary Reader</i>, the anthology <i>Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California</i> by Scarlet Tanager, <i>Rock & Sling: a journal of witness</i>, <i>Barren Magazine</i>, <i>Wild Gods</i>, an anthology by New Rivers Press, <i>Kestrel Journal</i>, and <i>The Madrona Project: Human Communities in Wild Places</i> published by Empty Bowl Press, among others. She is the author of <i>Alphabet Atlas</i>, a chapbook of prose poems published by Deconstructed Artichoke Press and <i>Tarot of Transformation</i>, a series of short stories published by True Story, a publication of Creative Nonfiction. She holds an MFA in writing from California College of the Arts, an individualized MA from Goddard College and a BA in cultural ecology from the University of California Santa Cruz. Sonja is Danish-American and comes from dusty, sometimes emerald, coastal hills amidst a chain of old volcanic peaks that stretch into the Pacific Ocean. <i>Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Wisdom, Wolves and Women</i> is her first book.