E. R. Lutken

E. R. Lutken worked on the Navajo Nation as a physician for many years, then taught science and math in rural Colorado for a few more. Her poetry collection, “Manifold: poetry of mathematics” (3: A Taos Press, 2021) won the New Mexico First Book Award for 2022. Recently she edited her father’s memoir A Thousand Places Left Behind: One Soldier’s Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII Burma (University Press of Mississippi, 2023).

E. R. Lutken's work appears in Issue 46.2 Winter/Spring 2026.