Kristen Millares Young is a prize-winning journalist and writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, City Arts Magazine, Pacifica Literary Review, KUOW 94.9-FM, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Miami Herald, and TIME Magazine. Kristen was the researcher for the NYT Pulitzer Prize-winning story Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, which […]
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Margot Kahn is the author of the biography Horses That Buck (University of Oklahoma Press). The book won the High Plains Book Award and was named by New West a best book of 2008. She is also co-editor, along with Kelly McMasters, of the anthology This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press/Hachette). […]
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Gigi Rosenberg is an author, performer, artist coach and public speaking coach. Her essays and articles have been published by Psychology Today, Seal Press and Poets & Writers. She’s been a guest commentator on Oregon Public Broadcasting and performed her dramatic monologues at Seattle’s On The Boards. In 2010, she wrote The Artist’s Guide to […]
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Loreen Lilyn Lee grew up in three cultures: Chinese, American, and Hawaiian. Her memoir The Lava Never Sleeps: A Honolulu Memoir tells the stories “I’m not supposed to tell.” She weaves together family secrets; childhood trauma; cultural confusion; and Hawaiian history, geology, and mythology in a journey to discover her authentic self. A Seattle resident […]
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Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019), WA State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018). She is the author of Cipota Under the Moon, One River, A Thousand Voices, Killing Marias, and the chapbook This City . Her most recent non-fiction is in There’s […]
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Anastacia-Renee (She/They), former Jack Straw 2020 Curator and Seattle Civic Poet, is an award-winning writer, curator, interdisciplinary artist, and speaker. She is the author of Side Notes from the Archivist (HarperCollins/Amistad), selected as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2023 and feature of PBS.org’s, My Brief But Spectacular Life on Poetry and Legacy. […]
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Kate Carroll de Gutes’s book, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Memoir. A wry observer and writer who started her career as a journalist, Kate is a stickler for the serial comma, and also believes that there […]
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Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize, as well as House of Sugar House of Stone. She co-edited The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Critic, her work has been supported by Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, and Jack Straw. She graduated with honors from Stanford […]
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Jay McAleer is a poetry and fiction writer from Seattle. He has a BFA from DePaul University and a certificate in Literary Fiction from the University of Washington. He has previously published essays in the short-lived magazine The Austin Idealist and is currently at work on a novel. 2013 Writers Program
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Jeannine Hall Gailey is a poet with MS who served as Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She’s the author of six books of poetry, including Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and the SFPA’s Elgin Award, and her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions. Her […]
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