C. Mikal Oness

C. Mikal Oness is a poet and author of Oracle Bones, which won the Lewis & Clark Poetry Prize, and Water Becomes Bone (New Issues Press). His upcoming book Works and Days will be published by Cornerstone Press in 2026, and he lives on a cottage farm in Southeastern Minnesota with his wife, Elizabeth Oness. Oness is also the founding editor of Sutton Hoo Press and The Last Press, and works as a potter and alpinist.