Catherine DeNardo studied killer whale behavior in the Norwegian Arctic and worked as a volunteer at the Center for Whale Research on San Juan Island, Washington. She is a former editor at Conservation magazine (now Anthropocene) and has worked as a freelance editor on several natural history books. Catherine’s writing on killer whales has been published in Outside Magazine’s Long […]
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Susan Starbuck is emeritus at Antioch University, Seattle, where she taught literature, history, and writing in education. She is the author of Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment (2002), a biography of an early Seattle activist who embraced a wide variety of social, political, and environmental causes. Artist Support Program 2002: Radio documentary on the life […]
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Cynthia Rose is a British and American national based in Paris, France. She works as an author, reporter and broadcaster (BBC, NPR), dealing with culture and arts criticism. Work as Paris correspondent includes CRAFTS (UK) and The Comics Journal (US) Artist Support Program 2023: Mix, edit, and sweeten recorded audio for a 20 minute film […]
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Brigid Kelly is a documentarian and artist from the Midwest. Her wanderings through rural and urban America spawn projects that explore missing histories and the contributions of overlooked activists, artists, and everyday people. Her work has appeared on NPR’s Code Switch, KCRW’s All Things Considered, PBS, and other networks. Presence, a documentary-based collaborative work, appeared in the Crossing The Line […]
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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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Daniel Tam-Claiborne is the author of What Never Leaves and a contributor to the literary anthology, While We’re Here. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Literary Hub, The Huffington Post, Kitchen Work, The Shanghai Literary Review, and elsewhere. He has received honors and scholarships from the U.S. Fulbright Program, the New York State Summer Writers […]
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Kristie Song is a Chinese American writer, journalist, and illustrator from Southern California. She is a graduate student at UC Berkeley and is usually thinking about lost memories, childhood scraps, and her multilingual upbringing for her stories. 2021 Writers Program
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Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody award-winning writer and independent media and theatre artist who has written and produced more than 400 audio art pieces and documentaries for NPR and PRI programs. Her Peabody award-winning documentary “Mei Mei, a Daughter’s Song” is a harrowing account of her mother’s childhood in Taiwan during WWII. Her Crossing […]
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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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Claudia Rowe is a journalist, essayist, and writer of creative nonfiction. For seven years she was a regular contributor to The New York Times and several national magazines. In 2003, after a residency at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, she flew back to New York, packed up her car and hit the road for Seattle, where […]
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