Brit Washburn is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan, where she was born and raised, and of Goddard College in Vermont. She also studied at Eugene Lang College in New York City, and at the University of Hawaii, and lived in Brazil, France, and Italy, before moving to Charleston, SC, in 2005, and to Asheville, NC, in 2017. The winner of two consecutive Albion Prizes for Poetry, judged by the poets Gary Snyder and Ai respectively, Brit's work has appeared in Art Mag, The Albion Review, Alexandria Quarterly, Controlled Burn, Culture-Keeper, The Dunes Review, Earth's Daughters, Foreword Magazine, Gratefulness.org, Guideword, Heartland Review, Manoa, and A New Song, as well as the anthologies, Mourning Our Mothers: Poems About Loss, A New Guide to Charleston, The Wild and Sacred Feminine, and What Matters, among others. Brit has been awarded an artist's grant by the Vermont Studio Center and for many years served on the board of the Poetry Society of South Carolina and the Low Country Initiative on the Literary Arts (LILA). She co-directed the salon Poets House South and works as a freelance writer, editor, and indexer. The mother of four children ranging in age from eight to twenty-three, Brit is currently a student in the MFA Program at Virginia Tech. She is the author of the poetry collections, Notwithstanding (2019) and What Is Given (forthcoming, 2025), both from Wet Cement Press, and of the essay collection, Homing In: Attempts on a Life of Poetry and Purpose (Alexandria Quarterly Press, 2023).