Josh Feit is a longtime Seattle journalist. He co-founded the independent Seattle news site PubliCola, where he reported on public policy for nearly a decade. Prior to that, Feit was the news editor at Seattle's alternative weekly, the Stranger. More recently, Feit has worked as a speechwriter; first for the Seattle Mayor's Office and currently for Sound Transit, Seattle's regional transit agency. He continues to write a city planning column for PubliCola.

Feit is the author of two poetry collections: Shops Close Too Early (Cathexis NW Press, 2022) and The Night of Electric Bikes (Finishing Line Press, 2023). In 2024, he won Common Ground Review’s Second Place poetry prize and was a finalist for The Wolfson Chapbook prize. In 2023, he was profiled in Poetry Northwest and nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Bainbridge Island Press. In 2020, he was shortlisted for the Vallum Poetry Award, winning Honorable Mention. In 2019, he won the 3rd Place Lily Poetry Prize.

Feit’s poems have appeared in several journals, including Spillway, Vallum, Novus Literary Arts Journal, Vital Sparks, Circle Show, Change Seven, and High Shelf among others.

He lives in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, which has some of the deepest tree canopy in the city, alongside some of Seattle's densest housing. You have it backwards, NIMBYs.

CONTACT: JFeitinwords@gmail.com