Christa Fairbrother

Christa Fairbrother, MA, is currently poet laureate of Gulfport, Florida but she spent ten years living on Whidbey Island. Her poetry has appeared in Arc Poetry, Pleiades, and Salamander. She’s been a finalist for The Pangea Prize, The Prose Poem Competition, The Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She’s had residencies with the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Bethany Arts Community, and her chapbook, Chronically Walking, was a finalist for the Kari Ann Flickinger Memorial Prize. Water Yoga (Singing Dragon, 2022), her nonfiction book, won medals from the Nautilus Book Awards and the Florida Writers Association.