Lex Runciman

Lex Runciman has published seven collections of poems, including The Admirations, which won the Oregon Book Award, and, most recently, Unlooked For, from Salmon Poetry (Ireland, 2022). His poem “Green” introduces the Willamette Valley section of Cascadia Field Guide (Mountaineers Books, 2023), and he is the 2025 recipient of the Howard Poetry Award from Weber—The Contemporary West. A new volume, Light in the Evergreens, is forthcoming in 2026 from Cornerstone Press. He lives in Portland, Oregon.