Kelli Russell Agodon: Writer. Editor. Poet.

Dialogues with Rising Tides:
Award Winning Collection NOW available from Copper Canyon Press

This is the book I need right here, right now, as the fires burn and the tides rise.
~ Diane Seuss

BIO: Kelli Russell Agodon (she/her) is a bi/queer poet and editor whose newest poetry book is Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press) was named a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry.

She is also the author of Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays & Interviews on Creating a Book of Poems. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli is currently part of a project between local land trusts and artists to help raise awareness for the preservation of land, ecosystems, and biodiversity called Writing the Land. She also co-hosts the poetry series"Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard. www.agodon.com www.twosylviaspress.com www.youtube.com/@PoemsYouNeed

There are just a handful of contemporary American poets whom I do not want to live without, whose books I keep by my desk and never lend out.

Kelli Russell Agodon is one of these poets.
~ Nin Andrews