Brit Washburn is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan and of Goddard College in Vermont. Her 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 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).