Travis Helms
is an Episcopal priest based in Jackson, Wyoming. Having served as the priest to the University of Texas, at Austin campus, he has taught as an adjunct professor at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest and the Iona School for Ministry.
Travis is Founder + Curator of LOGOS Poetry Collective: a 'liturgically-inflected' reading series that began by congregating in an east Austin brewery, and now hosts events throughout the country and online, as a project of EcoTheo Collective. He currently leads CAMPFIRE: an experiment in re-imagining how to gather community that congregates monthly at a saloon, and engages a host of mountain athletes, artists, and non-profit leaders to get at the “why” behind the things we do and make.
His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Image Journal, North American Review (online), New Haven Review, and The Austin American-Statesman, among other publications. He was the inaugural William W. Cook Frost Place Fellow, runner-up for the John Kinsella / Tracy Ryan Poetry Prize (Cambridge, UK), and winner of the Arthur Sale Poetry Prize (Cambridge, UK).
He lives with his family on the doorstep of the Tetons.