Brandi George grew up in Ovid, Michigan, spending much of her time drifting through farms, meadows, marshes, and forests. This has given her an intense relationship with wilderness areas and an interest in ecopoetics and nature writing (and the Ovid reference has not been wasted!). Her work celebrates these spaces, while also carving out a new religion, a spirituality that is rooted in creativity itself.

The poems explore her struggle with mental illness, sexual assault, religious extremism, an exorcism, and the burning of her creative work when she was in her early teens. Through all of this, she has been guided and inspired by the power of poetry and art-making. Later, she would also discover Wicca, Zen meditation, and Ashtanga yoga, which helped her to let go of her past and take control of the present moment. Her goal is to teach others to find this same freedom through their creative work, and by connecting to the breath and the body.

She has written three books. Her most recent collection of poetry, The Nameless (Kernpunkt Press) won an Eyeland International Book Award. Her first book of poetry, Gog (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), won the gold medal in the Florida Book Awards, and her second collection, Faun, is a play in verse (Plays Inverse, 2019). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Fence, Orion, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Best New Poets, Ninth Letter, Columbia Poetry Review, and The Iowa Review. She has been awarded residencies at Hambidge Center for the Arts and the Hill House ISLAND residency, and the Time & Place Award in France. She is currently working on a collection of lyric essays about figures from her dreams and visions, including Michelangelo, Elizabeth Siddal, Virginia Woolf, Salvador Dalí, William Shakespeare, and a bear.