Natalie Pascale Boisseau is a bilingual Québec writer from Montréal, living near Seattle. She is writing the autofiction novel Exiles and Desire (4Culture Awards 2023) and a collection of essays, To Arrive Where My Mind Lives, of reflections on road trips through North America. Her work appears in Isele Magazine and Crab Creek Review and is anthologized in This […]
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Maiah A Merino, a first and second-generation Mexican-American/Chicana Poet, mixed-genre writer, teaching artist. and therapist, has poems in A New Season: Poems from a World in Flux Anthology; In Xóxitl, in cuícatl: Flor y Canto, Antología de poesía; I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State; and Windblown I, and is a regular contributor and […]
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Sayantani Roy has placed work in several journals including Emerge Literary Journal, Grist (forthcoming), MAYDAY, TIMBER, West Trestle Review, and Wordgathering. She is an MFA candidate at the Rainier Writing Workshop, and her work has been supported by AWP. 2026 Writers Program
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BeeLyn Naihiwet, mother to the moon, is a nonfiction writer and poet with roots in Tigray. She is the author of two poetry collections, Plenty. and Moonful (Finishing Line Press). Her work explores memory, wilderness, and the shaping of the self. BeeLyn is currently working on a collection of personal essays. 2026 Writers Program
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Gabriella Garcia is a writer from the Sonoran Desert. Her chamber opera, A Spring Like This, a collaboration with composer Nehemiah Jones, was developed and performed in 2025 with the support of the Seattle Opera’s Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and lives in Seattle, WA, where she teaches […]
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Alejandro Pérez-Cortés’s poems and short stories have been published in newspapers in his home state of Colima, Mexico since 1996. In 2000 his work was included in the Anthology Cage of Verses / Jaula de Versos, published by the literary workshop Chessboard / Tablero, coordinated by the local poet Efrén Rodríguez. In 2002 his manuscript […]
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Jean Ferruzola is a writer focused on stories for young adult readers. Her work often centers on family, memory, and the ways heritage shapes identity. As a first-generation Ecuadorian-American, she is drawn to narratives that explore how the past echoes across generations. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Brevity, The Offing, and […]
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Elissa Favero’s writing often centers visual arts and built and living worlds. Informed by her previous roles as an educator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and at the Seattle Art Museum as well as by her current work teaching visual arts histories at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University, […]
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Kevin Dean (he/him) is a Seattle-based writer of poetry and fiction. Previously, he lived in Cairo, Egypt, where he worked as an editor and studied Arabic. Before all that, he was a kid with a library card in southwest Virginia. His work has been published in The Common and The Rumpus. In addition to the […]
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Melanie Sevcenko is an audio editor & producer, writer, and sound artist. Based in Portland, OR, she currently edits and produces Live Wire, a nationally-syndicated public radio variety program from PRX. She’s also reported for numerous outlets, including The Guardian, American Public Media, NPR, BBC World Service, and CBC, amongst others. As an accomplished poet, Melanie’s […]
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