Bryn Fleming

Bryn Fleming was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and graduated from Portland State University with a degree in English. She taught creative writing classes at Portland
Community College, and has been published in Highlights, Cricket, and numerous poetry journals. Bryn volunteered at a wildlife care center as a teenager, worked in seven different
National Parks, traveled and worked in Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean where she crewed on sailing yachts and worked at the Oregon Zoo for ten years. She now lives in
Central Oregon with rescue dogs Harley and Pippin, shelter cats Amber and Angel, horses Sky and Skookum, and an adopted wild burro Biscuit and mini‑mule, Mercy. She is
currently employed as a fish biology field technician helping to restore endangered wild steelhead to Oregon rivers.