Garnet Juniper Bennet (she/they) is an educator & writer corrupted in the American high desert who now finds redemption practicing their craft in the Pacific Northwest. Their work has been included in publications such as Rattle, Salamander, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Ninth Letter, Frontier Poetry, Salt Hill, & Pidgeonholes, & has received nominations for Best of the Net & Pushcart prizes. In 2025 their poem “Burnout” was selected for 1st place in the 2024 OxMag Crystal Ox Poetry Contest. Their manuscript angel/androgyne was most recently shortlisted for the 2023 Catamaran Literary Reader West Coast Poetry Prize & the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize.