C. Jean Downer (she/her) is a 2024 and 2025 Golden Literary Award finalist and 2023, 2024, and 2025 Touchstone nominated poet living near the Canadian northwest’s eternal Pacific Ocean with her wife, two lazy dogs, and three chill cats.

 

When she is not writing sapphic stories of romance, mystery, and suspense, she and the love of her life travel to new destinations and check them off their bucket list (okay, even when traveling, she’ll be writing, but mostly in her head).