Amy Halloran
Amy Halloran’s work has appeared in The Stranger, Women’s Work, and BUST. One of her non-books was included in an exhibit she co-curated, This Is Not a Book at Summer Song Gallery. 1997 Writers Program
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Amy Halloran’s work has appeared in The Stranger, Women’s Work, and BUST. One of her non-books was included in an exhibit she co-curated, This Is Not a Book at Summer Song Gallery. 1997 Writers Program
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Trisha Ready is a writer and a psychologist. She wrote essays for twenty years for Seattle’s alternative newspaper— The Stranger. Her writing focuses on mental health and music. 1998 Writers Program
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The poet Jamal Gabobe has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. The Path of Difference is his third poetry book. He has published another book of poetry titled Love and Memory and an Arabic poetry book called Qalb La Yanam. Jamal’s travel essay Termites and Clans was included in the anthology […]
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From the 1998 Jack Straw Writers Anthology: “I am a twenty-seven year old Chicano, or Mexican-American. I was raised in mostly middle-class white suburban communities where the only other students with Spanish surnames were my siblings. I’m currently a full-time composition and literature professor at Shoreline Community College. I moved to Washington after living in […]
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From the 1999 Jack Straw Writers Anthology: “I grew up in Seattle, graduated from the University of Washington, then traveled around the country for the next 12 years. During that time I worked as a machinist, foundry worker, and garment worker. Throughout those years I was active in the trade union movement, on issues ranging […]
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Lisa Michaels is the author of Split: A Counterculture Childhood, selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in Glamour, Salon, and the New York Times Magazine. She has been a contributing editor at The Threepenny Review and […]
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David Halpern holds a BA in writing from the University of Washington and a Masters from Brown University. He competed on the US Olympic kayaking team in 1984, and in twelve national championships for flatwater kayaking. He makes his living as a cartoonist, and has won several national awards for his cartooning. Halpern also has […]
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Jim Cantú has penned poems, prose and personal essays. His work includes contributions to Writing the Land – Windblown II (2022), In Xóchitl in Cuícatl : floricanto : cien años de poesía chicanx/latinx (1920-2020) (2020), Raven Chronicles (2017), Seattle Poetic Grid (2017), Whirlwind Magazine (2016) and others. He’s been a Writer-In-Residence for La Sala’s La […]
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Kaitlyn Teer’s essays have been published in Orion, Electric Lit, Catapult, Redivider, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction was listed as notable in the 2017 Best American Essays anthology and a special mention in the 2018 Pushcart Prize anthology. Her essays have received Prairie Schooner‘s Bernice Slote Award and Fourth Genre’s Michael Steinberg Essay Prize. She was […]
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Sumu (Su) Tasib is a genderqueer author and scientist living in Seattle, Washington. They have been writing for four decades and publishing scientific articles for three. Su sees writing as a path to social as well as scientific change; their stories are meant to expand perspectives while they entertain. Their debut book, A Boy Named […]
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