Two-Time Award Winning Poet

Northwind Writing Award (2023 and 2024)

Braeden Michaels is an American poet living in Georgia with his family. He writes with intensity, but not to shock — to understand. His work moves through love, loss, doubt, longing, and the quiet wars we fight within ourselves.

Known for blending analytical depth with emotional honesty, Braeden dismantles complicated feelings and lays them bare on the page. Not to expose weakness — but to reveal strength hiding beneath it.

His poetry has appeared in multiple anthologies, alongside eight published collections that explore the many atmospheres of the human experience — darkness and light, heartbreak and devotion, fracture and healing.

At the center of everything he writes is a belief:

You aren’t broken. You just haven’t been discovered yet.

Through Storm of Ink, Braeden writes so readers can see themselves clearly — sometimes for the first time — and recognize that what felt like damage was only depth waiting to be understood.