Janée J. Baugher, MFA, is the author of the craft book, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction, as well as two full-length poetry collections. She’s an assistant editor at Boulevard magazine, has been a featured poet on Seattle Channel TV and at the Library of Congress, and was awarded a 2024–2025 CityArtist grant by the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. For her third poetry collection, she won Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize for The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles (coming in 2026).