Author Subhaga Crystal Bacon will read and discuss their original work in conversation with Wenatchee Valley College instructor and poet Linda Cooper from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28. This reading will be held in The Grove Recital Hall in the Music and Art Center (MAC) on the Wenatchee campus. Bacon will give a second reading at 1 p.m. on Oct. 29 in Wendell George Hall room 301 on the Omak campus. These readings are a part of the WVC Visiting Writers series, and both are free and open to the public.
Subhaga Crystal Bacon (they/them), is the author of five collections of poetry including "A Brief History of My Sex Life," from Lily Poetry Review Books; the Lambda Literary finalist "Transitory" (2023), winner of the BOA Editions, Ltd. Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry; "Surrender of Water in Hidden Places," winner of the Red Flag Poetry Chapbook Prize, 2023. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, Bacon is an AWP Writer to Writer mentor and teaching artist working in schools and libraries with youth and adults, as well as private students. Their work appears or is forthcoming in a variety of print and online journals including Terrain.org, West Trestle, The Bellevue Literary Review, Cider Press Review, Prairie Schooner, Nelle and others. A Queer elder, they live in rural northcentral Washington on unceded Methow land.
Linda Cooper lives in Ronald, Wash. and teaches English Composition at WVC and Nature Writing at Washington Outdoor School. She completed her MFA at Eastern Washington University, and her poems have been published in Verse Daily, Hayden’s Ferry Review, West Branch, Many Mountains Moving, Willow Springs, Third Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Permafrost, Hubbub, Elixir, Diner, Pontoon, and many more. She also won the 2015 Orlando Prize for Poetry and the 2022 Allied Arts Foundation Prize. Her chapbook, "Blue, a Waltz" was published by Floating Bridge Press in 2023.
The Visiting Writers series is possible thanks to the support of the WVC English Department and the Wenatchee Valley College Foundation. The next Visiting Writers series event will feature author Laura Pritchett in conversation with Lizbeth Barcena as part of the WVC Earth Day Celebration.
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Published October 19, 2026
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