Garnet Juniper Bennet (she/they) is a disabled, genderqueer poet & writer born & 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, The Boiler, Nashville Review, Muzzle Magazine, & many others.

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 2026 J. Alfred Prufrock Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2026 Moonpath Press Sally Albiso Poetry Award. Their manuscript signs & signals was selected as a finalist in the Zone 3 Press First Poetry Book Award of 2023. Garnet was among the awardees of the 2026 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) by Washington’s Artist Trust.

When not writing, Garnet can be found most often in the company of her cats and one very spoiled English Springer Spaniel. They post as garnet_juniper on Threads and Instagram, and garnetjuniper on Bluesky.

Garnet is available for bookings and readings on a sliding scale. Additionally, writers are welcome to query Garnet for editing services on their manuscript, also on a sliding scale. Garnet is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno, and has many years of experience teaching college-level composition and editing writing at all stages. For these and other queries related to their work, email garnetjuniper [at] protonmail [dot] com.