Lydia Rae Bush (she/her) is a poet rooted in lyric and dramatic traditions, currently exploring collaboration, intertextuality, and ekphrasis. Rae’s work is Best of the Net nominated, examines embodiment and social-emotional development, and includes Free Bleeding (dogleech books, ’25), Keeper, Seeker, Dragon of the Sea (Bottlecap Press, ’25), and All the Little Church Girls’ Paper Dolls (fifth wheel press, ’26). Lydia is an associate editor for Sage Cigarettes Magazine, and can be found pretty much anywhere, generally wiggling.