Rasheena Fountain centers environmental advocacy and justice in her work. She has received fellowships and support from the Jack Straw Writers Program, National Audubon, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her film, Dropped Down Blues, debuted in the “How We Carry Water” 2024 exhibit at PRAx. In 2025, she released In the Aftermath, a blues […]
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Mary Pan is a writer and physician with a background in global health and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney’s, Intima, and elsewhere. She has been selected for workshops, retreats, and residencies with Tin House, Hedgebrook, Kenyon Review, and Centrum, and is a Harvard Media & Medicine alum. The […]
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Catherine DeNardo studied killer whale behavior in the Norwegian Arctic and worked as a volunteer at the Center for Whale Research on San Juan Island, Washington. She is a former editor at Conservation magazine (now Anthropocene) and has worked as a freelance editor on several natural history books. Catherine’s writing on killer whales has been published in Outside Magazine’s Long […]
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Gordana Crnković is a professor and Chair in the Slavic Languages and Literature Department at the University of Washington. Her book of essays, Imagined Dialogues, creates imaginary dialogues between East European and American stories. Artist Support Program 2000: Zagreb Everywhere, a creative non-fiction piece that presents her native city Zagreb, Croatia in a spoken-work piece […]
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Richard Gibbons (1932-2023) was a fiction and non fiction writer and storyteller based in Seattle. He edited for newspapers and magazines, wrote articles for The New Republic and Washington Magazine, and co-wrote and illustrated a volume of folk tales called Tejocote published by Mexico’s Editorial Novaro. Dick also wrote stories for Ellery Queen and songs […]
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Brian Goedde is an assistant professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia. A graduate of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, he has written personal essays for The New York Times, The Seattle Review, and Full Grown People (The Other Awkward Age), among other publications. Artist Support Program 2003: Record and produce […]
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Stokley Towles tells stories. Venues showing his work have ranged from the sidewalk of the corner of 151st and 8th Ave SW in Burien where story plaques tell a 10,000 year history of that block, to the University of Washington where for two years he acted as a professor and gave lectures to students in […]
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Nancy Redwine’s most recent publications are included in the anthology The New Fuck You (Semiotexte, 1995) and the Fremont Fair chapbook (LD Books). In 1996 she read at the Rendezvous Reading Series and Red and Black Books. 1997 Writers Program
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Kate Miller’s work has been published many places, including the anthology The Persistent Desire (Alyson) and on Seattle Metro buses. She sells books at Red and Black Books and is a former resident of Hedgebrook cottages. 1997 Writers Program
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Eula Little has read at various venues in Seattle, including the Fremont Fair and the SPICE series. 1997 Writers Program
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