Endi Bogue Hartigan

Endi Bogue Hartigan is author of two books of poetry. Her second book, pool [5 choruses], was recently selected by Cole Swensen for the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize and is forthcoming in April, 2014. Her first book One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing, 2008) was selected for the Colorado Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She published the chapbook out of the flowering ribs in 2012 in collaboration with artist Linda Hutchins, which includes a long poem and drawings stemming from a joint process-based exhibit, silver and rust. Her poems and selections have been published in Chicago Review, Verse, VOLT, Pleiades, Omniverse, Free Verse, The Oregonian, Tinfish, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Insurance, LVNG, Quarterly West, New Orleans Review, Peep/​​Show: A Taxonomic Exercise in Textual and Visual Seriality, Yew, Northwest Review, Antioch Review, and other magazines as well as the anthologies including Jack London is Dead (Tinfish, 2012), and Salt (Nestucca Spit, 2005). In recent years, she has created collaborative work as a member of 13 Hats, an artist writer collective, and has been a member of the collective which organizes the Spare Room reading series. She co-founded and edited the poetry magazine Spectaculum, publishing long poems, series, and projects best presented at length. She is a graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has lived primarily on the west coast, and as a child, in Hawaii. Her home is in Portland, Oregon with her husband, poet Patrick Playter Hartigan, and their son, Jackson. She currently works in communications for the public university system.