Beck Anson (he/they) is a queer, trans, and neurodivergent poet writing at the edges of memory, body, landscape, and becoming. His work is interested in what survives transformation: the names we shed, the stories that haunt us, the bodies we inhabit, and the wild places that hold what we cannot. He writes toward the porous places between grief and wonder, intimacy and estrangement, rupture and repair.

Beck is the author of Blossom Boy (Thirty West Publishing House, 2023) and his poetry has appeared in Rattle, RHINO, Stone of Madness Press, and the Beyond Queer Words and Love Is For All of Us anthologies. His poem "I Admit Myself to the Psych Ward in a Pandemic" was a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize. He lives in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts on Pocumtuc and Elnu Abenaki lands, where he writes, hikes, studies plants and fungi, and looks for poetry in the places where the human and more-than-human worlds meet.

"Listen – are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" 

​— Mary Oliver