C. F. Savage, writer and poet, has been a chef for people recovering from illness, a book editor, and a teacher of Girl Scouts in rural North Carolina. She has been awarded residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Jentel Artist Residency Program, and the Ucross Foundation. Her chapbook, The Last One Eaten: A Maligned Vegetable's History was published in 2005 by Finishing Line Press. Her work has also recently appeared in the western woman's anthology Crazy Woman Creek. In 2008, she won the Thomas Hornsby Ferril Prize for a series of poems. These poems, about wilderness in relation to human desire, are part of her forthcoming full collection. 

Some of her greatest joy has come through collaboration with musicians, painters, dancers, and fellow writers. In 2009, she was awarded Oregon State University's Cabin at Shotpouch Creek Collaborative Residency with composer/musician John C. Savage, and she has worked, taught, and performed for over a decade with a group of women poets known as The Forty Fingers.

As a teacher, she has taught poetry to young women in Appalachia, ranchers in Colorado, and itinerant jazz musicians. She believes, as Neruda, that poetry helps "the light inside to awaken."

She currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

Need more? Check out her blog The Bittersweet Radish for artistic musings.