Irene Wanner, a member of the Northwest Independent Editors Guild, teaches fiction writing at Richard Hugo House, Field’s End, and Western Washington University. On editorial staff of The Seattle Review, she also reviews books for The Seattle Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Orion. Her natural history essay, “Looking for Snowies,” appeared in the November/December […]
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John Olson is the author of Free Stream Velocity (2003), a collection of prose poems, and Echo Regime (2000) a collection of poetry, both from Black Square Editions; Eggs & Mirrors (1999), a chapbook of vignettes & prose poems published by local printer Paul Hunter at Woodworks Press; and Logo Lagoon (1999), a collection of […]
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Kathryn Christman has written both short stories and two novels. Her work has been published in Redbook, Cimarron Review, Primavera, Gulf Stream Magazine, Iowa Woman, and The Mississippi Review. Her recent collection of inter-related stories, The Fifty-Centavo Gringo, was a 2002 finalist in The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Currently, she is at work […]
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Elliott Bronstein, writer of short stories, grew up in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. After college he traveled extensively in Europe and South America, before settling in Seattle in 1980. He is a longtime board member of Red Sky Poetry Theatre. 2004 Writers Program
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Steve Hernandez Effingham was born in Queens, New York in 1953. He moved to Los Angeles in 1975, determined to pursue a career as a Jazz journalist. After accidentally discovering the writing of Henry Miller (he thought he was purchasing a book by Arthur) and becoming a fixture at several Venice, CA jazz clubs where […]
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Helen Anderson is a fiction writer and software designer living in Seattle. Originally from Austin, Texas, she holds a B.S. in Science, Technology & Society and an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction. 2022 Writers Program
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Ruth Schemmel’s short fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Fiction, and New Orleans Review, among other places. She has been a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open and a fifth-place overall winner in the NYC Midnight Short Fiction Challenge. A former Peace Corps volunteer, she works as a teacher of high school English language […]
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Allison Green has published a novel, Half-Moon Scar, and stories in Raven Chronicles, Willow Springs (1996 fiction contest winner), Evergreen Chronicles, and The Teacher’s Voice. Awards include a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant and residencies at Hedgebrook and Soapstone. She teaches writing, literature, and women’s studies at Highline Community College, where she chairs […]
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Jennifer Culkin, RN BSN CCRN, is an essayist and fiction writer. Born in Boston, MA, she graduated from Russell Sage College, Troy, NY, in 1979 and embarked on a bicoastal career in neonatal, pediatric and adult cardiac critical care, high-risk obstetrics and emergency flight nursing. Though long of tooth (and wattle) to be a student […]
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Michael Overa was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. An erstwhile bartender, Michael completed his MFA at Hollins University in Virginia before returning to Seattle. After working as a writer-in-resident with Seattle’s Writers In the Schools (WITS) program for five years, Michael transitioned to teaching composition at Shoreline Community College and Edmonds College. As […]
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