Lindsey Royal Wayland is a poet, calligrapher, and researcher whose work captures the subtle beauty of everyday details. Wayland’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the winner of the 2026 RHINO Poetry Founders’ Prize for her poem “There are Lights to Turn on After Dusk,” and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, swamp pink, The Florida Review, The Amsterdam Review, The Harvard Advocate, The Citron Review, The Haiku Society of America’s journal Frogpond, Port Townsend public art, and elsewhere. A finalist for the 2025 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund’s Money for Women, the 2024 New Letters Patricia Cleary Miller Poetry Prize, and the 2024 Fugue Poetry Contest, Wayland’s poetry has been supported by multiple Arts Commission grants, the Washburn-Hayes merit scholarship, and a South Porch Artist Residency.

A decades-long student of philosophy, psychology, theology & spirituality, Wayland holds a BA in Poetry and Psychology. She also earned a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Pacific University.

Her newsletter, ALL DAY, is a living inquiry into everyday presence, poetic perception, and creative reflection. Through it, Wayland offers essays, prompts, and writing that invite a deeper way of seeing and engaging with the world.

A fifth-generation Texan, Wayland lives with her husband and three children in the Texas Hill Country.