Cindy Huyser

Cindy Huyser's chapbook,  Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems, was co-winner of the 2014 Blue Horse Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poetry has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations and has appeared in journals including The Comstock Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and San Pedro River Review. Huyser co-edited Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems (Dos Gatos Press, 2016) with Scott Wiggerman, and has collaborated with Dos Gatos Press and Kallisto-Gaia Press as an editor for the Texas Poetry Calendar (2009-2014 and 2019 editions).

Huyser has been a juried reader in the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, the Houston Poetry Fest, and Houston's "Public Poetry" series, and is the host of the long-running BookWoman Second Thursday poetry reading series in Austin, Texas. She is a candidate in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Pacific University (class of 2024), and has a full-length poetry collection, Cartography, forthcoming from 3: A Taos Press. 

Photo credit: Patrick Larson.