Will Barnes is the author of two books of poetry: The Ledgerbook (3:A Taos Press, 2016) and the artemisia (Inlandia Institute, 2024) national winner of the 2022 Hillary Gravendyk Prize for Poetry. Poems from the artemisia have appeared in Comstock, Crab Creek, Mudfish, Oberon, and Ocotillo Reviews and the Taos Journal of Poetry. He currently works as an ecologist for the New Mexico State Land Office and lives in Santa Fe.