Diane Nguyen is a transgender multi-genre, multi-talented artist based in Seattle. Identifying primarily as a musician, she briefly attended McNally Smith College of Music for guitar performance before transferring to complete her Bachelors of Music in piano performance and composition from Cornish College of the Arts. Her creative work is informed by her Trans- and […]
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Natalie Pascale Boisseau is a bilingual Québec writer from Montréal, living near Seattle. She is writing the autofiction novel Exiles and Desire (4Culture Awards 2023) and a collection of essays, To Arrive Where My Mind Lives, of reflections on road trips through North America. Her work appears in Isele Magazine and Crab Creek Review and is anthologized in This […]
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Elissa Favero’s writing often centers visual arts and built and living worlds. Informed by her previous roles as an educator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and at the Seattle Art Museum as well as by her current work teaching visual arts histories at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University, […]
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Jenny Harrington Lill is a writer, researcher, and advocate living on Mercer Island. She is an MFA candidate in nonfiction and literature at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jenny is currently working on her debut collection of essays on love, loss, and mothering. 2025 Writers Program
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Jason Prokowiew received the PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for War Boys, a braided memoir about his Russian father’s adoption by Nazis during World War II and the trauma he carried into parenthood. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from George Mason University. His writing has appeared in The North American […]
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Danielle Bainbridge is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Black Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, a web series creator and host, writer, and filmmaker. With PBS Digital Studios, in 2017 she co-founded the YouTube Channel and web series PBS Origin of Everything, which has now evolved into PBS Origins. The channel has 500,000+ subscribers […]
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Allison Masangkay (she/they) is an entity—sick, disabled, trans, queer, femme, cultural worker, researcher, aswang, cyborg, and more—with ancestors from the archipelago referred to as the Philippines. They currently reside in Duwamish territory (Seattle, WA) and previously lived in Jamestown S’Klallam land (Sequim, WA) and Lenni-Lenape land (northern New Jersey). Her current work includes essays, speculative […]
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Elyse Hauser is an environmental writer from the Seattle area who studied creative nonfiction at the University of New Orleans. As an essayist, journalist, and speculative fiction author, she focuses on aquatic ecosystems, especially the deep sea and protecting the unknown. Elyse’s writing blends research and storytelling to explore human connections to underwater worlds. Her […]
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Becca Rose Hall (she/her) writes novels, essays, and poems. She studied English at Stanford and holds a Master’s in Environmental Writing from the University of Montana. Her writing has been supported by Art Omi, Zvona i Nari, and Community of Writers, and she has attended Bread Loaf and Sewanee. She was also the Writers’ Lighthouse […]
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