Jennifer D. Munro is a freelance editor who loves to help writers achieve their writing and publishing goals. As a writer; she won First Place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists blog contest (under 100k monthly visitors category). She was a Top Ten Finalist in the Erma Bombeck Global Humor writing contest and is […]
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Willie Smith was born and raised in the District of Colombia metropolitan area. He graduated from Reed College in 1972. Moved from Portland, Oregon, four years later to Seattle, where he has more or less existed ever since. Smith is happily married without children. As a poet and a novelist, Smith has had his writing […]
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Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, the New York Times bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough, and the novel Torch. Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. Strayed’s books have been translated into nearly forty languages around the […]
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Doug Nufer is a specialist in literary constraints, a technique that applies certain conditions to or establishes a pattern within writing. Doug is the author of Negativeland (Autonomedia), Never Again (Four Walls Eight Windows/ Black Square), and On the Roast (Chiasmus), all of which came out in 2004, and of The Mudflat Man/ The River […]
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Howard W. Robertson is a poet and fiction writer from Eugene, Oregon. His poems have been published in many literary journals, including most recently in SLAB, Square Lake, The Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology, Hipfish, Nest, Literal Latte, Nimrod, Fireweed, and Ergo. A chapbook of his poems, to the fierce guard in the Assyrian Saloon, is […]
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Corrina Wycoff’s first fiction collection, O Street was published by University of Illinois Press in 2007. Her fiction and essays have also appeared in Other Voices, New Letters, Coal City Review, The Oregon Quarterly, Brainchild, Out of Line, Golden Handcuffs, and the anthologies Best Essays Northwest and The Clear Cut Future. She holds and MFA […]
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Kathryn Trueblood’s latest novel, The Baby Lottery, is published by The Permanent Press of New York. Her first book, The Sperm Donor’s Daughter, received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize 2000. Trueblood has co-edited two anthologies of multicultural literature, The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards with Ishmael Reed […]
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Angela Jane Fountas writes, teaches, and runs WriteHabit.org, a website in support of new and emerging writers. She is also a volunteer at 826 Seattle. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in elimae, The Bitter Oleander, Diagram, Monkeybicycle, Pindeldyboz, Redivider, and Sentence, among others. Her story Lydia was nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize. […]
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Larry Laurence was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a Navy family and grew up believing normal life meant pulling up roots and moving every two years. He began writing in his twenties, earning an M.A., English, studying poetry under Philip Levine and Peter Everwine. He worked 12 years as a construction laborer and warehouse worker […]
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Nancy Rawles has worked as a journalist, playwright, and novelist. The New York Times called her novel My Jim “as heart-wrenching a personal history as any recorded in American literature.” Nancy has received many awards for her writing, including an Alex Award from the American Library Association, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus […]
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