Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950)[1] is an American poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press.
Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been [2] (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
In the Fall 2003 Tricycle magazine interview with Chase, she says, "Zazen and poetry are both studies of the mind.
I find the internal pressure exerted by emotion and by a koan to be similar in surprising and unpredictable ways.
Additionally, she has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.