Haines Whitacre is a poet, book artist, and near-shore sailor who lives in unceded Duwamish land a short walk from the Duwamish River. She’s the author of six artbooks and three poetry collections— including Ali mapu y el horizonte arrugado (Edipos 2015), Accounts of Wreckage (Winter Texts 2019), and Haptic Verse: In Imaging Vessels (selected by Ari Banias as the winner of the 2021 Burnside Review Chapbook Prize, 2nd Ed. 2023 Meeting Place, 3rd Ed. 2024 Winter Texts). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington and is the recipient of a 2025 GAP grant through Artist Trust.
Her work’s long been nourished by two waterways, their music, and their attendant watersheds—the Chesapeake Bay and the Salish sea.Experimental by nature, her art is procedural and conceptual in practice, blending poetics, structural mechanics, performance art, and theoretical inquiry to deconstruct how lyric poetry posits a structure of space and our relationships within. She inflects her work with with the motion of waterways she frequents and the tonal harmonies of music she plays.
Beyond the page, she can be found racing sailboats on the Salish Sea, attempting to garden, or playing piano in her living room.
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