Subhaga Crystal Bacon (they/them) is the author of five collections of poetry including A Brief History of My Sex Life, forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books in January of 2026, and Transitory (2023), from BOA Editions, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry in 2024. Their chapbook, Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, meditations on the Methow and Wenatchee Rivers, won the Red Flag Poetry Chapbook Prize in 2023 and was reissued in an expanded edition in 2024. They are an AWP Writer to Writer mentor and teaching artist in schools and libraries as well as working with private students individually and in groups. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Terrain, Smartish Pace, Solstice Literary Review, Diode Poetry Journal, and many others. A Queer elder, they live in rural northcentral Washington on unceded Methow land.
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http://www.subhagacrystalbacon.com
