This is an Advance Manuscript Critique with Janée J. Baugher. You will provide a sample of your manuscript prior to the conference, and during this session, you will have an opportunity to receive feedback on this material.

Janée J. Baugher, MFA is the author of the only craft book of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction (McFarland, 2020), and she’s been a featured reader at the Library of Congress and on Seattle Channel TV. She’s a longtime assistant editor at Boulevard magazine (St. Louis) and lives in Seattle, where the Office of Arts & Culture awarded her a 2024-2025 CityArtist grant for a memoir project. For her third full-length poetry collection, she won Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize for The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles (2026). Find out more at JaneeBaugher.com.