A visual artist and poet, Meredith Stricker is the author of Mistake (selected by Rosmarie Waldrop, Caketrain Press 2012); Alphabet Theater, mixed-media performance poetry (Wesleyan, 2003) and Tenderness Shore, (National Poetry Series Award, 2003). She recently was awarded the 2013 Iowa Review Poetry Prize. She works in visual poetry collaborative focusing on architecture in Big Sur and projects to bring together artists, writers, musicians and experimental forms.