Kevin Craft

Kevin Craft lives in Seattle and directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College. For two decades he also served as a faculty director of the University of Washington’s Writers in Rome Program. His books include Solar Prominence, selected by Vern Rutsala for the Gorsline Prize (Cloudbank Books, 2005), Vagrants & Accidentals (University of Washington Press, 2017), and Traverse (Lynx House Press, 2023), selected by Linda Bierds for the Pacific Northwest Poets Series. He has received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), the Camargo Foundation (France), 4Culture, The Jack Straw Cultural Center, PLAYA, and Artist Trust. In 2022 he was Artist in Residence at Olympic National Park, and often volunteers as a lookout steward in the North Cascades. Editor of Poetry Northwest from 2009 – 2016, he now serves Executive Editor of Poetry NW Editions.