Cypress Manning is a queer + trans writer, artist, and educator from Taos, New Mexico. They received their MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2019, and were a 2022-23 Hugo House Fellow. They are in a two-person cribbage league with their mom, and live in Seattle with their partner and cat, Riso. They teach creative writing.
“Organizers should be writing poetry. It’s such an emotional guidance for action. It’s grounding, it’s clarifying, it’s centering. And it gives us so much life when a lot of organizing itself is so exhausting.”