Peyton Elise Craft is a local COS poet who writes mostly about heartache and loss – finding answers in the spilling of her heart-blood onto paper. She is also a lifestyle photographer and creative, spending most of her time outdoors and with her husband and pup! She just published her first poetry collection titled Beyond the Yellow Door, which can be found on her website peyton-elise.com, and she plans to publish more in the future! To find Peyton’s latest writings, tune into her Instagram @peyyyyyyy.

Katie Scruggs Galloway is a writer and editor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is the co-creator of Becoming // Poetry where she writes spontaneous poems on her Smith-Corona typewriter and hosts writing workshops, encouraging creativity and honesty as a means of fostering connection. When she’s not working with words, you can find Katie creating through music (Color Math on Spotify) and film photography (@k.galloway_).