Brittany Mishra is a recovering perfectionist and an eternal walker. She organizes her thoughts and builds poems through movement, walking, dance, music, and being outside in the high desert of southern Utah or the temperate climate of the PNW. Her work explores the fracturing of memory, mental illness, the fluidity of identity, borders, citizenship, parenthood, motherhood, and the many facets and contradictions of love and belonging. By reading and writing poetry, she challenges what she has been taught to be true of herself, her country, history, and of this world.

Brittany has workshopped with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Juan Felipe Herrera during the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival in Farmington, CT (2015-2019). She is an alumnus of the 2022 Community of Writers where she workshopped with Ada Limón, Camille Dungy, and Major Jackson. From 2018 to 2019, she joined the Riverwood Poetry Board to facilitate poetry workshops and readings in the central Connecticut community. In 2020, she moved back to her home state of Washington.​

 

Brittany is the recipient of The Heartland Review’s 2020 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize and the second runner-up in Calyx Press’s 2023 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize. Her poetry won an honorable mention in Spoon River Poetry Review's 2022 Editor's Prize Poetry Contest.

 

​Brittany’s poetry can be found also in Poet Lore, Calyx Press, Spoon River Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Chestnut Review, Sky Island Journal, and MoonPark Review. ​When not writing poetry, she hikes, whitewater kayaks, and works in global supply chain sourcing PCB components to build ultrasounds for hospitals and clinics.

 

She lives in southwest Washington state with her husband and daughter and her big, extended family.​

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