Lindsey Royal Wayland is a poet, calligrapher, and researcher whose work captures the subtle beauty of everyday moments. She has followed her practice to projects that reveal hidden depths in the seemingly ordinary—writing 10,000 anonymous letters, recording the last line of every poetry book she reads, studying presence through blind contour drawing over 400 faces, and writing a letter to LeBron James.

Wayland’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review, Bellevue Literary Review, swamp pink, Amsterdam Review, Haiku Society of America’s journal Frogpond, and Third Wednesday. She was recently a finalist for the Patricia Cleary Miller Poetry Award by New Letters.

As chair of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Wayland brings her dedication to arts and community. A longtime student of Zen Buddhism and the I Ching, she holds a BA in Poetry and Psychology, with post-graduate studies in depth psychology, archetypal symbolism, and the use of personal symbols for insight and self-understanding. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Pacific University, where she is a merit scholar.

Wayland lives with her husband, Cody—an artist and sawyer—and their three children in a meadow within an evergreen forest by the Salish Sea.