Maudie Bryant makes art, writes poems, and teaches in Shreveport, Louisiana. Having split her early life between the Pacific Northwest and summers in the South, she has always operated between opposing worlds. This sense of living across biomes shapes her work, pulling apart questions of place, roots, and identity through textured paint, loose watercolor, and raw, honest lines.

Her work has earned her a Shreveport Regional Arts Council Fellowship, the 2024 G. Scott Griffin Award, a Pushcart nomination, and the 2025 Ephraim Tyler Poet of the Year award. She founded and edits Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry and works with college students on their writing at Bossier Parish Community College.

At home, she finds steady energy in the everyday noise of raising two young sons with her husband, always looking for what remains unseen just beneath the surface.