Poetry by moonlight.

Hi! I’m a poet in California. During the day, I work as a communications specialist for a utility company.

HI THERE. I’M TRACEY KNAPP.

Here’s my bio in the third person:

Tracey Knapp's second collection, Swerve, is forthcoming from Pine Row Press in Spring 2026. Her first full-length collection of poems, Mouth, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and was published in 2015. Tracey has received awards and scholarships from La Romita School of Art in Terni, Italy, the Tin House Writers’ Workshop, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Her work has appeared in Cream City Review, The Pinch, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Rattle, Five Points, New Ohio Review and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and two Pushcart prizes. Originally from Upstate New York, Tracey lives in the Bay Area of California.

Tracey holds a Masters degree in creative writing from Boston University, a Masters degree in English from Ohio University, and a BFA in studio arts from Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, Tracey collaborated with bookmaker Michael Russem and artist Kurt Gohde to create a limited edition book of seven poems with corresponding "smoke drawings", Match in a Bottle. The book sold out immediately and earned critical acclaim across the niche art book community. It's currently archived in many private and public library collections around the world.