Janée J. Baugher

Janée J. Baugher, MFA is the author of the only craft book of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction (McFarland, 2020), and she’s been a featured reader at the Library of Congress and on Seattle Channel TV. She’s a longtime assistant editor at Boulevard magazine (St. Louis) and lives in Seattle, where the Office of Arts & Culture awarded her a 2024-2025 CityArtist grant for a memoir project. For her third full-length poetry collection, she won Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize for The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles (2026).

Find out more at JaneeBaugher.com.

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