Travis Helms

Travis Helms (he / him) is the author of the academic monograph Blowing Clover, Falling Rain: a theological commentary on the poetic canon of the ‘American Religion’ (Wipf & Stock). His poems and essays have appeared in Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Image Journal, North American Review, and The Austin American-Statesman, among other journals. He was the inaugural William W. Cook Frost Place Fellow, runner-up for the John Kinsella / Tracy Ryan Poetry Prize, winner of the Arthur Sale Poetry Prize, and has received the Galway Kinnell Scholarship to the Community of Writers. He is founder + curator of LOGOS Poetry Collective, a liturgically-inflected poetry reading series that began in an east-Austin brewery and now hosts gatherings across the country. An ordained Episcopal priest, he lives in Jackson, WY with his family.