About The Artist

Subhaga has nearly twenty
years’ experience as a teaching artist working in elementary, middle, and high
schools and over forty years teaching writing in community colleges. She’s the
author of four collections of poetry including Surrender of Water in Hidden
Places, a chapbook on the Wenatchee and Methow watersheds, forthcoming in
the spring of 2023, and Transitory, a chronicle of murders of
transgender and gender nonconforming people in 2020, recipient of the Isabella
Gardner Award for Poetry, forthcoming in the fall of 2023 from BOA Editions. Her
work encompasses documentary poetry focused on social issues and environmental
change.

A Queer Elder, she lives, writes, and teaches on the east slope of the North Cascade Mountains in Twisp. Her work appears or is forthcoming in a variety of print and online publications and can be read on her website, www.subhagacrystalbacon.com.