The University of Arizona Press

Philip Garrison is the author of Augury and Waiting for the Earth to Turn Over. He is one of the founders of APOYO, a volunteer group that offers advocacy, interpretation services, and a food and clothing bank that now serves some 400 people a month from central Washington’s mexicano communities. He is a recipient of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Creative Nonfiction Award and a Governor’s Writer's Award from Washington State. He is an emeritus professor of English at Central Washington University and lives in Ellensburg.