Austen is a writer from Los Angeles living in San Francisco. She received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Iowa Review, AGNI, Narrative Magazine, Salmagundi Magazine, Zyzzyva, Indiana Review, The Sewanee Review, Gulf Coast, Carolina Quarterly, Antioch Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Los Angeles Review, Minnesota Review, and others. She will be a PhD student in Creative Writing and Literature at the University
Austen’s debut book of poems, Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm, won the 2022 Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press. She’s a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California and received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University.
Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Narrative, Zyzzyva, AGNI, The Adroit Journal, 32 Poems, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She was the winner of the Walter Sullivan Award from The Sewanee Review and a semi-finalist for the 92Y Discovery / Boston Review Poetry Contest.