Greg Bem (he/him) currently resides in Spokane where he is a librarian at Spokane Community College. After 14 years supporting literary arts in Seattle, Greg has focused his life in Spokane on running Carbonation Press, volunteering at local organizations like Spark Central, and co-running a monthly multidisciplinary arts performance series with Sarah Rooney called Foray For The Arts. Raised in Southern Maine, Greg has spent time in Rhode Island, Philadelphia, and Cambodia. Since 2010, Greg has co-designed, co-organized, and co-hosted countless arts and literary events, including The Breadline (Seattle), Five Alarms Lit Crawls (Seattle), Our City (Phnom Penh), Ghost Tokens (Seattle), View.Point (Seattle), and Reflexive Assembly (Seattle). He has collaboratively supported work by the New Philadelphia Poets, the Cascadia Poetics Lab (formerly the Seattle Poetics Lab) and Cascadia Poetry Festival, and the Poetic Arts Performance Project (PAPP). His work concerns ecologies and natural environments, and often bridges literary forms with sound poetry, field recordings, ambient and noise music, and performance art. He is the author of several books, including Of Spray and Mist (Hand to Mouth, 2019), Green Axis (Alien Buddha, 2019), Like salt. Like a spine. (with Maung Day, 2019), and Pushing Through Glass (Carbonation Press, 2023). His many audio projects, including his latest, Talus Field, can be found on Bandcamp. You can learn more at gregbem.com.
