Jory Mickelson

Jory Mickelson is a writer living in Xwotʼqom / Whatcom / Bellingham on the homelands of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples. They are the author of three books of poetry: Picturing (2025), All This Divide (2024), and Wilderness//Kingdom (2019), which won a 2020 High Plains Book Award. They are the recipient of an Academy of American Poet’s Prize and have received fellowships from The Desert Rat Writers Residency, the Lambda Literary Foundation, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. To learn more about their work, visit www.jorymickelson.com.