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Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Jennifer (JP) Perrine earned a BA in religion, culture, and the creative arts from Susquehanna University, an MA in English from Bucknell University, and a PhD in English from...

Brian Stephen Ellis is the author of the poetry collections Against Common Sense (LIMIT ZERO Publications, distributed by University of Hell Press, 2023), Often Go Awry (2015), and American Dust Revisited ...

E.J. Koh is the author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others (Tin House Books, 2020) and the poetry collection A Lesser Love (LSU Press, 2017), winner of the Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry. Her poems...

Iñupiaq poet Marie Tozier earned an MFA from the low-residency program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is the author of the poetry collection Open the Dark (2020), which illuminates elements of ...

Vern Rutsala was born in McCall, Idaho, and he lived in Milwaukie, Oregon as a teenager. He earned his BA at Reed College and his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught at Lewis & Clark University for...

Richard Hugo was a poet of the Pacific Northwest, yet his renown attests to a stature greater than that of most “regional” poets. He grew up in White Center, Washington, outside of Seattle. He served in World...

Poet Richard Kenney was born in Glens Falls, New York and earned a BA from Dartmouth College. His first collection of poetry, The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (1984), received the Yale Younger Poets Prize...

Poet, essayist, and playwright Susan Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California. An early awareness of the horrors of World War II and her childhood in the High Sierras have had an enduring influence on her...

Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington. Raised by a prominent lawyer and highly educated mother, Kizer’s childhood was suffused with poetry. Of her development...

Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Ryler Dustin has represented Seattle on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam and headlined at slam venues across the United States. He has been awarded...

Leonard Schwartz earned his BA in creative writing and literature from Bard College and his MA in philosophy from Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Heavy Sublimation...

Demian DinéYazhi' was born in Gallup, New Mexico, on Diné Bikéyah (Navajo Nation) to the clans Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water’s Edge) and Tódích'íí'nii (Bitter Water). DinéYazhi' earned a BFA from Pacific...

A poet and a public-school teacher, Laura Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is the author of the collections Instruments of the True...

Ryo Yamaguchi is the author of The Refusal of Suitors (Noemi Press, 2015). Currently traveling and writing full-time, he has worked in academic and literary publishing for presses such as Wave Books and the...

Wendy Willis is a poet, an essayist, and a lawyer. She earned a BA from Willamette University, a JD from Georgetown Law Center, and an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. ...

Poet, writer, and educator Tanaya Winder is an enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe and has ancestors from the Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Navajo, and Black tribes. She grew up on the Southern...

Jessica Tyner Mehta, PhD, is an Aniyunwiya interdisciplinary poet and artist. A native of the occupied land of Oregon and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, space, place, and de-colonization are the driving...

Raised in Portland, Oregon, Beverly Dahlen moved to San Francisco in the 1950s. She was educated at Humboldt State University, where she earned a BA, and at San Francisco State University. Dahlen’s poems and...

Jeffrey Pethybridge grew up in Virginia. He earned a BA from Old Dominion University, a MA from Boston University, and a PhD from the University of Missouri. He is author of the poetry collection Striven, ...

Poet and editor Andrew Feld earned an MFA at the University of Houston. In his formal and free verse poems, he often engages themes of power, intimacy, and natural order. “Feld is an exacting poet whose poems...