Bio for 2025
Ondine Quinn (they/them) is a visual artist, musician, and writer based out of Lexington, Kentucky. Their work explores themes of grief, belonging, resistance, and our relationship to the natural world, and is informed by their experience growing up as a queer latinx/e person in a working class family. In 2022 Ondine published their first book, a collection of vegan Cuban recipes inspired by their mother’s cooking. They began their poetry journey in 2020 through “Writing What Is”, a poetry circle for BIPOC women and femme poets founded by LeTonia Jones and Tanya Torp. They were accepted into the 2023 Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman Kentucky, and their poem “From From” was published in an anthology of Lexington writers as part of the 2023 LexPoMo writing challenge. Ondine has been invited to read in and around central Kentucky, including at the Carnegie Center’s 2023 Queer Literary Hoedown, Appalshop, and the 2024 Lexington Pride festival. When not writing, Ondine enjoys playing video games, drinking coffee and spending time with their partner Drew, and their dog named Rabbit.
Reason for signing up:
To be connected to fellow poets and hold myself accountable to a more regular writing practice!
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