Nynke Salverda Passi is the founder and director of the Soul Bone℠ Literary Center and Festival. She is also the co-chair of the English dept. and founder and director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Maharishi International University. She has been published in CALYX, Gulf Coast, Poetry Breakfast, Life & Legends, and more. Her work has been anthologized in The Anthology of New England Writers, River of Earth & Sky (Blue Light Press), and Carrying the Branch (Glass Lyre Press), among other places. She was a finalist in the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize of The Missouri Review in ‘14 and in ‘22. Her first book has been accepted by Blue Light Press.
