Bryan Edenfield was born in Arizona but has lived in Seattle since 2007. As the founder and director of the literary arts organization Babel/Salvage, he hosted and curated the Glossophonic Showcase and the Ogopogo Performance Series. His work has been published in Construction Magazine, Meekling Review, Dryland, Plinth, and Vanilla Sex Magazine, among others. He […]
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Juan Carlos Reyes was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He’s the product of a math degree, though only words hold his attention anymore. His book A Summer’s Lynching won the Quarterly West 2016 novella prize. His chapbook Elements of a Bystander won the 2016 Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming with Arcadia Press. His stories, poems, and […]
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Kathya Alexander is a writer, actor, storyteller, and teaching artist. Her poem, Naa Naa, appeared in Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workplace. She has won the 2017 Artists Projects Award from 4Culture; the WRAP Award, Youth Arts Award, and the CityArtist Award from the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture; and her play, […]
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Harold Taw’s debut novel was Adventures of the Karaoke King; his writing has been featured on NPR, in a New York Times bestselling anthology, and in The Seattle Times; and his screenplay DOG PARK has received numerous accolades. He currently co-curates WordsWest Literary Series. Harold (book) and Chris Jeffries (music and lyrics) co-wrote Persuasion, a […]
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Anna Bálint is the author of Horse Thief, a collection of short fiction spanning cultures and continents that was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Two earlier books of poetry are Out of the Box and spread them crimson sleeves like wings. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in various journals and […]
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Wancy Young Cho has appeared in Salon, The Windy City Times, Ghost Factory, No Touching Magazine, and Hair Trigger. He was the recipient of the 2008 Gold Circle Award for Traditional Fiction by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and took First Place in the 2005 Written Image Screenwriting Competition. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia […]
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Ellie Belew lives in the world of stories we tell ourselves and each other. She writes them down as novels, short prose pieces, and community histories. Belew has published one novel, Run, Plant, Fly (with audio CD produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program); two labor histories, Fully Involved, Bringing Power to the People; and […]
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Calvin Gimpelevich is a fiction writer whose work appears in Electric Literature, Plentitude, Glitterwolf, cream city, THEM, and other publications. He is the recipient of awards from Artist Trust, Jack Straw Cultural Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. 2017 Writers Program
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Phoebe Tsang is a British-Canadian poet, librettist, short story writer and violinist. Her multidisciplinary performance practice integrates composed and improvised music with original poetry. Tsang employs the ancient, divinatory system of the Marseille Tarot to structure her performances, much as John Cage employed the I Ching. The resulting work is a product of chance – […]
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Anca L. Szilágyi’s fiction has appeared in Gastronomica, Fairy Tale Review, Cicada, Monkeybicycle, and The Massachusetts Review, among others. Her nonfiction appears on the Ploughshares blog. She was awarded an inaugural Made at Hugo House fellowship for her story collection More Like Home Than Home and a 4Culture grant for her novel-in-progress, Paralegal. The Stranger recognized Anca […]
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