about

carpe noctem.

bailey loveless (she/they) is a disabled / neurodivergent / queer writer haunting a far forest ledge on S’Klallam land along the Washington coastline. She is also a patron of the odd, the outcast, and the lost with a particular fondness for ghosts. Infused with darkness, humor, and curiousity, her essays, fiction, and hybrid work braid folklore, ecology, embodiment, autotheory, and domestic practices as artifacts of damaged places and the art of creaturehood.

She is currently completing an MFA in Nature Writing at Western Colorado University, where her thesis is a grimoire-memoir-in-essays exploring magic and inheritance in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Fear in Dust, and Space & Time Magazine, among others. She also received recognition in Ron Howard’s Project Imaginat10n and holds a BA in Social Sciences from the University of Washington.

They write in between bouts of brooding, gardening, playing D&D, and conspiring with their many familiars. Dispatches from the hedgerow, the crypt, and the desk occasionally appear on Instagram @bailey.loveless.