Endi Bogue Hartigan’s third book of poetry oh orchid o’clock (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023) explores clock measure, temporal presence in today’s realities, and the impacts of our obsessions with time and instrumentation. She is author of two other full-length books, as well as work in chapbooks, collaborations, and magazines.

Endi Bogue Hartigan’s third poetry book oh orchid o’clock (Omnidawn Publishing,2023), explores histories of clock measure, temporal presence in today’s realities, and the impacts of our obsessions with time and instrumentation. She is author of two other full-legnth books of poetry: Pool [5 choruses] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2014) which was selected by Cole Swensen for the 2014 Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Oregon Book Award Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, and One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing, 2008), selected by Martha Ronk for the Colorado Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. She is also author of the seaweed sd treble clef, (Oxeye Press, 2021) a handmade chapbook featuring a series of poems and photographs and the chapbook out of the flowering ribs in collaboration with visual artist Linda Hutchins, a publication stemming from their joint process-based exhibit, silver and rust.

Endi’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications including West Branch, Interim, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, Chicago Review, Verse, VOLT, Pleiades, Bennington Review, Old Pal, Free Verse, Tinfish, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, LVNG, and others. Interviews on her writing have appeared in Jacket 2, The Conversant, and Small Press Review, and reviews have appeared in Publisher’s Weekly, the Poetry Foundation website Harriet, Rhino, and elsewhere. She has also collaborated with artists and writers, and has read, taught, and presented at numerous venues. In 2016, she was awarded an artist residency at Playa Summer Lake, a residency for artists, writers, naturalists, and scientists. She is a former member of 13 Hats, a group of visual artists and writers who collaborated on numerous projects appearing in exhibits, publications, and readings in 2012-13. For several years she also helped organize the Spare Room poetry reading series as a member of a collective. She and Patrick Hartigan co-founded and edited Spectaculum from 2003-2005, a journal publishing long poems, series, and work best presented at length. Endi has lived most of her life in the Pacific Northwest and, as a child, in Hawaii. She is a graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She and her husband Patrick live in Portland, Oregon, and they are parents of Jackson. In addition to her creative work, she has worked for years in public policy communications for higher education.