About the Author
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Educated at Boston University and Eastern Washington University, Baugher has been a featured poet at the Library of Congress and on Seattle Channel TV. Recently, she was a judge for the Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow Ekphrastic Poetry Film Prize (Fotogenia Festival, Mexico City). She’s a longtime assistant editor at Boulevard magazine and lives in Seattle, where the Office of Arts & Culture awarded her a 2024-2025 CityArtist grant to work on her memoir, “Suicide in the Mirror.”
Baugher is the author of the only craft book of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction (McFarland, 2020), as well as the full-length poetry collections, The Body’s Physics (Tebot Bach, 2013) and Coördinates of Yes (Ahadada Books, 2010). For her third poetry book, The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles, she won Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize (2026).
Recent Books
The Ekphrastic Writer (craft book)
A common definition of ekphrasis is descriptive writing influenced by the visual arts. Beyond the written word, however, responding to art can engender self-reflection, creativity, and help writers to build characters, plot, and setting. This book unites the history and tradition of ekphrasis, its conventions, the writing process, and multi-genre writing prompts. In addition to subjects such as early art engagement, psychology, and the eye-brain-perception relationship, this book discusses artists’ creative processes, tools, and techniques, and offers instruction on how to read art by way of deep-looking.
The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles (poems)
The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles presents an imaginative narrative of the painter’s creative life, rife with both losses and pleasures. Janée J. Baugher employs the footnote form to write a book-length narrative of ekphrastic poetry in which the character of Andrew Wyeth chronicles his internal musings. The sixty-three Wyeth paintings that influenced these poems (dated 1938 through 2008) are the ones in which Baugher delighted in how the quotidian is made tender, like a white sheet drying outside on the line or sunflowers’ shadows against a house.
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1.) The Ekphrastic Writer: $40
2.) The Body's Physics: $20​
