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Named the 2025 Passager Poet, Angie Minkin came to poetry after a long career as an Administrative Law Judge with the State of California. She wandered into a poetry class at San Francisco State University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and never looked back. She knew that she had found her passion and her community. Angie especially appreciates the way poetry inspires her to look at the world a different way, as well as the way poets support each other and cheer each other on, even while providing much-needed feedback. Angie stands on her head for inspiration when gazing out the window doesn’t work. She enjoys cooking chicken soup for ailing family and friends (whether in body or soul) and fantasizes about baking wedding cakes. When not reading or writing poetry, she takes dance classes with Rhythm & Motion in San Francisco, practices yoga, studies Spanish, and travels to Oaxaca, Mexico, whenever possible.

Angie is a reader for The MacGuffin and her work has been published in that journal, Birdy, Loch Raven Review, New Verse News, Persimmon Tree, Rattle, Spoon River Poetry Review (Honorable Mention, Editor’s Prize 2024), Stirring, Swamp Ape Review, SWWIM, Westchester Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Balm for the Living, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023 and she is a co-author of Season Lightly with Salt (Raven & Wren Press, 2024) and Dreams and Blessings (Blue Light Press, 2020). Lineage Songs, her full-length collection is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2026. www.angieminkin.com