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 and copywriter; 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 and ‍a weekly numbers & politics 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). His poems have appeared in several journals, including Spillway, Vallum, Midsummer Dream House, Nova Literary Arts Magazine, Vital Sparks, Circle Show, Change Seven, Half and One, and High Shelf among others.

In 2026, his poem “Revolutionary Airport” was shortlisted for the Ink & Ribbon LemonLight Prize. In 2024, he was a finalist for The Wolfson Chapbook prize and his poem “Hecate, My Fixer” won Common Ground Review’s Second Place poetry prize. In 2023, he was profiled in Poetry Northwest and his poem “Obit for a Pickpocket” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Bainbridge Island Press. In 2020, his poem “Linger Factor” was shortlisted for the Vallum Poetry Award, winning Honorable Mention. In 2019, his poem “The Coronation of Summer” won the 3rd Place Lily Poetry Prize.

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