Moon in the Rye Press is funded by the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, as a part of the poet laureate project. Special funding for the Press comes from the Academy of American Poets Fellowship for Poets Laureate, for the broadside initiative (2023-24).
Many thanks to the writers in the state of Utah, for collaborating in the best senses of that word: sharing their work and creating writing community in countless ways. These projects aim to strengthen awareness and create opportunity for the great literary work that is already happening in Utah.
Acknowledgements
About Lisa Bickmore, Founder of Moon in the Rye Press
Lisa Bickmore, the sixth poet laureate of the state of Utah, is the author of Ephemerist (Red Mountain Press, 2017), which contains the poem “Eidolon,” winner of the 2015 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize; flicker (Elixir Press, 2016), winner of the 2014 Antivenom Poetry Award; and Haste (Signature Books, 1994; reissued in 2023). She is the founder and publisher of the independent nonprofit Lightscatter Press and Moon in the Rye Press.
About Jem Ashton, Chapbook Designer
Jem Ashton is a bookmaker, writer, and multimodal artist from Salt Lake City, Utah. Jem has been steeping in the Utah ecology since birth – from the towering urban pigeon-scape of Salt Lake City to the rolling and jagged deserts of the South. This lifelong relationship with the varied landscapes and communities of Utah has instilled in Jem a passion to contribute meaningfully to the local ecology, both urban and wild through stewardship and storytelling. They graduated from the University of Utah with a BS in Writing & Rhetoric Studies and a Certificate of Book Arts in 2022.
About Patrick Ramsay, Website Designer
Patrick Ramsay is a queer Utah-based poet and creative director who was raised in and along the wetlands of the Great Salt Lake. He earned his B.A. in English & creative writing at Weber State University, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of Metaphor Literary Journal. He is the founder of Happy Magpie Book & Quill, an independent pay-what-you-can bookshop in Ogden, Utah, and the creative agency, Ctrl C Studio. His work focuses on land, heart, and community building in the West. You can find more of Patrick’s work in his debut poetry chapbook, “Butterflies are Rare in Beehives” or on Instagram @writepatrick.