Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Poet, Writer, Teacher
Subhaga Crystal Bacon is a Queer poet living in rural northcentral Washington on unceded Methow land. She is the author of four collections of poetry. Her latest book, Transitory is the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry, from BOA Editions, and was included in the Library Journal’s list of Books to Read in 2023.
She’s also the author of Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, 2023, winner of the Red Flag Poetry Chapbook Prize, Blue Hunger, Methow Press, 2020, and Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey, winner of the A. Poulin New Poetry America Prize, BOA Editions, 2004.
A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she’s a teaching artist working in schools and libraries with youth and adults, as well as with private students. She’s a poetry reader for the Adroit Journal. Her work appears in a variety of print and online journals including the Bellevue Literary Review, Indianapolis Review, Rise Up Review, Ghost City Review, and others.