[long bio:] Swanee Astrid is a poet-scribe from Sacramento, CA with degrees in Literature and Writing from the University of Iowa (BA) and Naropa University (MFA).  She has been an editor for Earthwords, Vestal Review, and Bombay Gin Literary Journal. VIBRISSAE Editions, a sensory ecology of publishing, is her latest small press project.

Swanee has served on the boards for the Sacramento Poetry Center and collective.aporia of which she is a founding member. Swanee has also been an executive assistant to the Jaipur Literary Festival at Boulder (2015-2018) and is the Summer Writing Program Managing Director at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Swanee has written and performed her own shows such as Praeludium Ex-Machina (Naropa MFA Festival, 2016), The Beat Drags On (Boulder Arts Week 2016 & 2017), and for such venues as Jose Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, Avotcja’s Palabra, Mutiny Information Café, Fox Theatre, Clyfford Still Museum, and the Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop.

Swanee’s areas of research include astro-anthropology, Nordic animism, language permutation, world building, eco-feminism, and contemporary mythopoetic narrative frameworks.

In July 2021, Swanee gave a talk on Valkyrie Poetics for the Heathen Women United Conference, as an artistic response to environmental leadership through the metaphor of the Valkyrie as embodiment of feminine warriorhood necessary for the battle against climate cataclysm. This talk was revised and published by the Wisdom Body Collective in their Works In Progress series in 2021.

Her poetry collection Immaculate Constellation, a collection of missives to the star-heart of the constellation Scorpio, is forthcoming in 2027.

[short bio:] Swanee Astrid is a poet-scribe from Sacramento, CA with degrees in Literature and Writing from the University of Iowa (BA) and Naropa University (MFA).  She currently works for the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics as the logistical master-mind for the department and advisor to the Bombay Gin Literary Journal editorial board. Among other forays in small press, she has also been an art model, a line cook, editor, and festival producer. Her writing currently focuses on Nordic Animism, astro-anthropology, and other forms of magic. Her poetry collection Immaculate Constellation, a collection of missives to the star-heart of the constellation Scorpio, is forthcoming in 2027.

[Teaching bio] Swanee Astrid has worked with youth in need of literacy, trauma recovery, and speech development. She has also taught community workshops such as Poet, Warrior, Ecology which examines language formation (syllabaries, alphabets, and pictographs) among different warrior cultures tied to ecology from Japan to North America to Scandinavia; The Art of the Manifesto & The Art of the Proclamation is a series of activist writing workshops which take various forms of political writing for polemical discourse and the role of poet as unacknowledged legislator of the world; The Art of Peace is a dharma focused workshop inspired by the text of the same name composed of doka’s and other inspiration from the founder of Aikido,  Morihei Ueshiba.  Swanee is currently designing an online course for Naropa University on psychedelics and literature—follow plants not authors!