Nynke Salverda Passi was born and raised in the Netherlands. Her work has been published in CALYX, Gulf Coast, Poetry Breakfast, Red River Review, Ilya’s Honey, Life & Legends, among other places. Her poetry has been anthologized in Pandemic Puzzle Pieces and River of Earth & Sky (Blue Light Press), Carrying the Branch (Glass Lyre Press), and Oxygen: Parables of the Pandemic (River Paw Press). Together with Rustin Larson and Christine Schrum, she edited the poetry collection Leaves by Night, Flowers by Day. Her essay “Oom Ealse and the Swan” was one of the finalists in the 2014 Editors’ Prize of The Missouri Review , and her essay “Baby Jesus Daubed with Cologne and Crowned with Gold Paper” was a finalist in the 2022 Editors’ Prize of The Missouri Review .
Nynke has more than two decades of college and graduate teaching experience in creative writing. She is the founder and director of the MFA in Creative Writing at M.I.U., the Soul Bone℠ Literary Festival, as well as the Soul Bone℠ Literary Center, a writing center offering workshops and collaborations that explore the relationships between writing, creativity, and healing. You can read her short bio here.
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The Soul Ajar
Through my writing center The Soul Ajar, I offer workshops, events, and collaborations that explore the relationship between writing, creativity, and healing.
Ealse & the Swan
From the day I first told my father that I wanted to pursue a career in writing, he said, “You should write the story of my friend Ealse and the wild swan!”
Events & Readings
Here you can find out more about my recent and upcoming events and readings—mostly in Fairfield, Iowa.
English department reading with faculty and staff, Thursday December 7 and 7 PM CT in the Fairfield Food Collective, 400 N. 2nd Street, here in Fairfield, Iowa.
MIU MFA faculty and poets and writers Jennifer Espinoza and Nynke Passi reprise their winter Soul Bone workshop, Writing toward Healing on Tues. July 11, from 7 - 9 Central Time.
Come and join us for “The Soul Ajar: Writing, Creativity & Healing with Poet and Professor Nynke Passi, Thursday, July 6, at 7 PM CST (online webinar) offered through the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley..
You are warmly and joyfully invited to:
Blue Light at the Gallery
Friday, January 6, 2023 – 6 pm Pacific Time / 8 pm Central Time / 9 pm Eastern Time
On this evening Blue Light at the Gallery is hosting a poetry reading with:
Mermer Blakeslee
Dorianne Laux
Nynke Salverda Passi
The book launch of Oxygen: Parables of the Pandemic, just out from River Paw Press, will celebrate online with a public reading.
Welcome to the events of the Soul Bone Literary Festival, the public events of M.I.U.’s M.F.A. in Creative Writing.
I am happy and honored to be included in TelePoem Booth Iowa. Thank you Elizabeth Hellstern, Debra Marquart, and Rustin Larson!