Jed Myers
Judge 2025 River Heron Poetry Prize
Jed Myers’ fourth book of poetry, Can’t Be Far, a finalist for the Sally Albiso Award, is forthcoming from MoonPath Press. His last collection, Learning to Hold, won the Wandering Aengus Press Editors’ Award. Other collections are The Marriage of Space and Time (MoonPath Press), Watching the Perseids (Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), and six chapbooks. Recent honors include the Northwest Review Poetry Prize, the River Heron Poetry Prize, and Sundress Publications’ Chapbook Editor’s Choice Award. Work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, The Poetry Review, Southern Indiana Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. Myers lives in Seattle, where he’s Editor of Bracken.
photo by Chris Berkenkamp and Engaging the Senses Foundation