Brook Bhagat (she/her) is the author of Only Flying, a Pushcart-nominated collection of surreal poetry and flash fiction on paradox, rebellion, transformation, and enlightenment from Unsolicited Press. Her work has won contests or placed in the top two at Loud Coffee Press, A Story in 100 Words, and most recently, the Pikes Peak Library District 2023 fiction contest. It has been published in Monkeybicycle, Peacock Journal, Soundings East, The Alien Buddha Goes Pop, Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Blue Planet Journal and a professor of creative writing at Pikes Peak State College. Read her work at https://brook-bhagat.com/, and follow her on social media @BrookBhagat.

Website: https://brook-bhagat.com/

Twitter Username: @BrookBhagat

Publications

• Only Flying , Unsolicited Press (November 21, 2021)
• poetry in Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen , CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 30, 2017)
• poetry in A Walk with Nature , University Press (October 31, 2019)
• poetry in Peacock Journal - Anthology: Beauty First [Vol II, No 1] , Little Red Tree Publishing (January 15, 2018)

Awards

• First place- A Story in 100 Words's Nature Writing Contest(2020)
• Pushcart nomination for "The Mammoth" from Only Flying(2021)
• First-round winner in 2022 Colorado Hearts and Minds Poetry Contest for “The Homes of Birds”(2022)
• • Tied for first place for “Be the Poet,” Loud Coffee Press Summer Flash Fiction Contest(2021)
• • Honorable mention for “When the Pen Is Still,” Loud Coffee Press Haiku Contest(2022)
• Tied for second place in All Pikes Peak Writes, the Pikes Peak Library District’s annual fiction writing contest, for “Magic Chai”(2023)

Employment

• Assistant Professor of English at Pikes Peak State College (August 2017 - )
• Founder, faculty/staff Writers' Group at Pikes Peak State College (November 2017 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from Vassar College (December 1999)
• Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Lindenwood University (September 2016)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Children's literature , Poetry