Bio

Don Hynes

Author of five volumes of poetry, Slender Arrow (1998), Out From Under (2001), The Living Dark (2006), The Irish Girl (2017), and Something Will Change Me (2024), Don publishes the online weekly Poet’s Journal. He attended college at the University of Notre Dame where he has returned several times as a guest speaker in language arts. 
 

He had an extensive career in construction project management, including major facilities for many non-profits throughout the Pacific Northwest. With his wife, artist and glass sculptor Linda Ethier, he lives between the San Juan Islands of Washington and Portland Oregon.