Cynthia Liu

September 7, 2023

Cynthia Liu is a Chinese-American writer from upstate New York. She has a doctorate from University of California, Berkeley, and is in process of writing a novel called Song of the Grain-Threshing Bird. 2000 Writers Program

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Stephen Morrissey

September 7, 2023

Stephen Morrissey is currently undertaking surveys of endangered slugs, snails and mushrooms in the forests of the Northwest. He is a fiction writer. 2000 Writers Program

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Ace Moore

August 11, 2023

Ace Moore was born in Thornburg, Iowa (population 100). He is an active volunteer with various programs at Richard Hugo House, and he is the writer of strange fables and prose poems which have appeared in a variety of literary journals. 2000 Writers Program

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Lisa Michaels

August 10, 2023

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

August 10, 2023

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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Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki

August 10, 2023

Betsy Aoki is a poet, short story writer, and game producer. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Asimov’s Magazine of Science Fiction, 580 Split, The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop), and anthologized in Climbing Lightly Through Forests (a Ursula K. Le Guin tribute poetry anthology). In 2021 she won the Auburn Witness […]

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Kip Robinson Greenthal

August 10, 2023

Kip Robinson Greenthal has dedicated her career to the written word, storytelling, and literary endeavors. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with Grace Paley. For eighteen years, she worked as a librarian in schools and public libraries. In 1993, she became the Education Director […]

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Laynie Brown

August 10, 2023

Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, teacher and editor. She is author of fourteen collections of poems and four books of fiction. Recent publications include Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022) a book of poems, In Garments Worn by Lindens; a novel, Periodic Companions; and a book of short fiction, The Book […]

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Nancy Mburu

March 21, 2023

Nancy Mburu is an author and performing poet. Her writing amplifies the experiences and stories of East African immigrants in an authentic way that also encompasses black diasporans’ complex relationship with culture, tradition, language, gender dynamics, and race. Her style involves uplifting her culture by incorporating her native language Swahili and rooting her stories in […]

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David K. Rea

March 16, 2023

A Seattle native, Dave grew up in a working-class family in White Center. He graduated from Evergreen High School and the University of Washington, where he began his newspaper career at the UW Daily. He worked as a reporter at papers in Central Washington, and later as a copy editor at Bellevue’s Eastside Journal (now […]

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