Subhaga Crystal Bacon is a Queer poet living in rural northcentral Washington on unceded Methow land. They are the author of four collections of poetry. Their latest book, Transitory is the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry, from BOA Editions, and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.
They’re 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, Subhaga is a teaching artist working in schools and libraries as well as with private students. Their work appears or is forthcoming in a variety of print and online journals including Diode, the Bellevue Literary Review, Indianapolis Review, Rise Up Review, Ghost City Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry, from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
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