Janée J. Baugher is the author of the only craft book of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction, as well as the full-length poetry collections, The Body’s Physics and Coördinates of Yes. In 2008, she held a two-year post as a Humanities Washington Inquiring Minds Speaker in which she lectured across Washington State on writers and visual artists of the Lost Generation. Her poetry has been adapted for the stage and set to music at University of Cincinnati–Conservatory of Music, Contemporary Dance Theatre (Ohio), Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dance Now! Ensemble (Florida), Otterbein University, and University of North Carolina-Pembroke. Educated at Boston University and Eastern Washington University, Baugher has been a featured poet at the Library of Congress and on Seattle Channel TV. Recently, she was a judge for the Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow Ekphrastic Poetry Film Prize (Fotogenia Festival, Mexico City). She’s a longtime assistant editor at Boulevard magazine and lives in Seattle, where the Office of Arts & Culture awarded her a 2024-25 CityArtist grant.