Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen’s poetry, essays, & photography are published in numerous journals & anthologies, including Crab Fat Magazine, SWIMM, and peculiar. In January 2015 they co-founded Rock Canyon Poets with poet Trish Hopkinson, & the companion poetry journal Orogeny. Shiffler-Olsen writes about the mundane, the profane, the sacred, & queer life. During the twenty years they single-parented three sons & a daughter, Shiffler-Olsen served as editor-in-chief for Utah Valley University's Touchstones & BYU-Idaho’s campus newspaper, Scroll. Their professional credentials include activist, journalist, contemporary dance artist & founder/director of a non-profit ballet school for low-income children in southeast Idaho.
