Kelli Russell Agodon

Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet and editor from the Pacific Northwest. Her next book, Accidental Devotions, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in 2026. Her book Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press, 2021) was a finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She cofounded Two Sylvias Press and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program. She cohosts the poetry series Poems You Need with Melissa Studdard. Find her at
www.agodon.com.