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Eva Poole-Gilson Poet, Writer, Owner of Pegasus Gallery in Bishop, CA

“If you read Letter From a Poet to the Most Beautiful Place in the World, and then were asked to point out its author in a crowd, you’d probably pick Eva Poole-Gilson. Small, strong, well-made and radiating vitality, this book is a written reflection of its author . . . . Poole-Gilson brings us the exuberant vision of a newcomer, and an eagerness to be ravished by the beauty of her new surroundings. “She defines herself by that world beyond the one of things and men, and in doing so, tells not just about herself and her experience, but about the immense body of nature to which she (and we) are vitally connected. Now I realize that this all sounds too numinous for words, but poets have recognized this power since at least the 8th Century, when Li Po enthused ‘How I love to visit the mountains of renown!’” –Cese McGowan, The Fessenden Review.(Now called RALPH  - The Review of Arts, Literature, Politics, and the Humanities)

High Sierra Poet and Writer

Eva Poole-Gilson grew up in Wisconsin, but has lived in the High Sierra for thirty years.  

Letter from a Poet to the Most Beautiful Place in the World was the first book she allowed out alone. This edition, now titled Love Letter from a Poet to the High Sierra, includes another short “book”: Poet on the Edge. Coming soon will be her young adult novel, Little Star Sleeping.  

Her writings have appeared in The Bay Guardian, Plexus, The Berkeley Barb, The Merced Sunday Star, Room, The California State Poetry Quarterly, Aldebaran Review, The Mammoth Times, The Inyo Register, The Science of Mind, The Mammoth Monthly and elsewhere. She founded Deepest Valley Review and The Practical Mystic, featuring fine writers, reviewing books. Educated at the University of Wisconsin and Mexico’s Instituto Allende, Eva has taught writing and literature throughout the Owens Valley for Cerro Coso College. With California Arts Council grants, she’s been poet-in-residence at two High Sierra high schools. Her favorite “job” has been as itinerant poet via California Poets in the Schools (CPITS), housed in San Francisco. Through CPITS she’s taught in four rural California counties.