A headshot of Annika Durum, who has brown curly hair and green glasses, taken in front of a colorful mural.

Annika Durum (she/they) is a Utah desert-based writer and visual artist and winner of Quillkeepers Press’ Fall 2026 Poetry Chapbook Competition for their collection Rotting Season. Her creative work is inspired the natural world and is optimistically feral, sun-bleached, and lives somewhere between beauty and rot. Annika can be found in the canyons when they’re not at home.

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