About

Westlook Press is an independent literary press publishing physical journals and a digital literary and arts journal, and offering creative spaces for writers and readers.

Founded by Kristin Ellowe, the press is built around a simple idea: that writing helps us pay attention — to place, to memory, to one another, and to the quiet or sudden shifts that shape our lives. It is committed to bringing thoughtful, carefully crafted writing and art into the world — work that is personal, striking, and enduring.

Through its publications and programming, Westlook Press supports a creative practice rooted in attentiveness and curiosity.

Based in the Pacific Northwest.

Kristin Ellowe is a writer, educator, and the founder of Westlook Press. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington and a BA in English with a Creative Writing emphasis from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she served as an editor of The Madison Review and was actively involved in literary publishing and readings. Her poetry has appeared in various literary journals. She is based in Seattle, where she writes with close attention to the small moments that shape how we see and remember. Her work brings together unlike things — images, ideas, forms, fragments of experience — and places them side by side to discover what they reveal to one another.