Lindsey Wayland is a poet, calligrapher, and researcher whose work is informed by everydayness, psychology, dream symbolism, and the interplay of physical and liminal. Largely quiet, her work connects people to their community through the written word. 

Wayland has followed her practice to projects like writing 10,000 anonymous letters, accessing mindfulness through blind contour drawings with adolescents in residential treatment, writing a letter to LeBron James, and since 2002, recording the last line from every poetry book she’s checked out from the library.

Her poetry has been published in Southern Humanities Review and Bellevue Literary Review, and is forthcoming in the Haiku Society of America’s journal Frogpond.

Wayland serves as chair of the Port Townsend Arts Commission.

A long-time student of Zen Buddhism and the I Ching, she has a double major BA in Poetry and Psychology. Her postgraduate master’s studies include depth psychology and archetypal symbolism, with ethnographic research of the adolescent demographic utilizing personal symbols. More recently, Wayland is an MFA candidate studying poetry at Pacific University, where she is a merit scholarship recipient.

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