2026 Cascadia Poetry Festival 10 – Seattle Poets

Linda Russo is the author of five books of poetry and hybrid essays, most recently the verdant (a winner of Middle Creek Publishing’s Halcyon Poetry Prize), a long poem that follows “the verdant” into a forgiving post-capitalist temporality beyond human individualism to find vibrancy, companionship, and counsel among other beings. She co-edited Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan University Press) and Geopoetics in Practice (Routledge). In 2021 she directed the Plant Poems Project to create collaborative poems for botanical signage marking an urban creek habitat restoration. Her poems and essays have appeared in Ecotone, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Jacket2, Poetics for the More-Than-Human World, The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and Plumwood Mountain: An Australian and International Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics. She lives on Nimíipuu and Pelúuc homelands in the Inland Northwestern US where she teaches at Washington State University and directs EcoArts on the Palouse, a place- based web project engaging students and community with shared ecologies in the wild edge spaces in the Palouse biome through visual and literary arts. She is currently at work exploring writing as herbal praxis.

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