Garnet Juniper Nelson is a Queer/trans writer birthed & corrupted in the American high desert who now practices their craft from the Pacific Northwest. A graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno, their work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Rattle, The National Poetry Review, Glassworks, Salamander, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Ninth Letter, Salt Hill, & Pidgeonholes, and has received nominations for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes. Their debut collection, angel/androgyne, was most recently shortlisted for the Catamaran Literary Reader 2023 West Coast Poetry Prize.