About Subhaga

Subhaga is the author of four collections of poetry. Her third collection, Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, winner of the Red Flag Poetry Chapbook Prize is forthcoming in March of 2023. Transitory, her fourth is forthcoming from BOA Editions in the fall of 2023. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for writers, her first book, Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey, won the 2003 A. Poulin, New Poetry America Prize from BOA Editions. Since that time, her work has appeared in a variety of print and online journals, and she’s been nominated for both the Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. She offers poetry instruction to individual students and small groups, and is a teacher in the Trillium Awakening spiritual path. She lives and creates in the spacious North Cascade Mountains with her partner, Sugandhi Katharine Barnes, whose painting, Stella Polaris, is the cover art for Subhaga’s second collection, Blue Hunger.