Garnet Juniper Bennet is a poet & writer corrupted in the American high desert who now attempts redemption practicing their craft in the Pacific Northwest.

Garnet’s work has been included in publications such as Rattle, Lunch Ticket, Salamander, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Ninth Letter, & Salt Hill, with forthcoming works in The Boiler, Nashville Review, & Muzzle Magazine.

In 2025, their poem “Burnout” was selected for 1st place in the 2024 Oxford Magazine Crystal Ox Poetry Contest, and their poem “anticipating flame” was selected for 2nd runner-up in Palette Poetry‘s Previously Published Poem Contest. Their manuscript angel/androgyne was most recently shortlisted for the 2023 Catamaran Literary Reader West Coast Poetry Prize & the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and their manuscript signs & signals was shortlisted in the Zone 3 Press First Poetry Book Award of 2023.

For queries related to their work, email garnetjuniper [at] protonmail [dot] com