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.
“We keep beginning again and again because we understand that this work is not a luxury; it is readying the soil for what our community intuitively knows can grow here.”