Dusty Bryndal is a Tennessee transplant who’s been living in New York City for over a decade.


She writes poetic memoir in the hopes of making people feel more comfortable talking about the dead. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two cats.

She has published poems in Rattle Magazine, hipmamazine.com, the Places Like Home anthology, and Mountain Bluebird Magazine. She also has a story in How We Got By, a collection of stories on resilience and survival. She coedited an anthology of stories about guilt with her writing mentor, Ariel Gore. In 2022 she wrote and independently published a chapbook called Losing Judah. She was one of ten finalists for the Rattle poetry contest in 2023 which led to her winning the Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award in early 2024. In 2024 she published her latest book of poetry, The Tiniest Bit of Light.