Arami Walker is a musician, author, and activist focused on uplifting the notion of community in our culture. Her music is a fusion of jazz, RNB, soul, and alternative songwriting. She graduated from UCLA in 2015 as a distinguished scholar and a Gates Millennium scholar. As a musician and poet, she has performed At Langston […]
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Danielle Bainbridge is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Black Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, a web series creator and host, writer, and filmmaker. With PBS Digital Studios, in 2017 she co-founded the YouTube Channel and web series PBS Origin of Everything, which has now evolved into PBS Origins. The channel has 500,000+ subscribers […]
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Allison Masangkay (she/they) is an entity—sick, disabled, trans, queer, femme, cultural worker, researcher, aswang, cyborg, and more—with ancestors from the archipelago referred to as the Philippines. They currently reside in Duwamish territory (Seattle, WA) and previously lived in Jamestown S’Klallam land (Sequim, WA) and Lenni-Lenape land (northern New Jersey). Her current work includes essays, speculative […]
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Comedian and journalist Lee Nacozy grew up in Austin amid her big Lebanese family. She then moved west until arriving in Seattle in 2010. She is a studied improviser and storyteller who loves to teach social-justice improv. She has most recently worked as an editor for Prison Journalism Project and for Real Change and as […]
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Jarrett Ziemer is an MFA student in creative writing at Western Colorado University and an Assistant Poetry Editor for Terrain.org. Jarrett’s poem “A Fish-Tenkara” was awarded an honorable mention in Deep Wild Journal‘s 2023 graduate student writing contest, and his poem “A Bed as a Nest” was awarded an honorable mention in Dreamers Magazine’s 2023 “Dreamers […]
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Amontaine Aurore is a storyteller, playwright, actor, director, producer, and performance artist. She is committed to presenting stories that illuminate multiple perspectives and deepen the understanding of human complexities. Amontaine’s plays have been produced in Seattle, New York, Maryland, and abroad. Her solo play, Free Desiree, was named one of the Best New Plays of […]
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McKenna Princing (she/her) writes speculative fiction set in and inspired by the Pacific Northwest and Cascadia bioregion. She loves to stitch genres like fantasy, science fiction, and horror together and bring these hideous progeny to life in order to explore real-world themes of social justice, queerness, mental illness, human-nature relationships, and the breakdown of the […]
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Gabriel Moseley is a writer from Seattle, Washington. He earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His short story, “A Man Stands Tall,” was awarded The Masters Review Anthology Prize in 2017, selected by Roxane Gay. He received the General Motors’ Future Fiction Scholarship to attend Aspen Summer Words in 2023. He […]
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Elyse Hauser is an environmental writer from the Seattle area who studied creative nonfiction at the University of New Orleans. As an essayist, journalist, and speculative fiction author, she focuses on aquatic ecosystems, especially the deep sea and protecting the unknown. Elyse’s writing blends research and storytelling to explore human connections to underwater worlds. Her […]
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Becca Rose Hall (she/her) writes novels, essays, and poems. She studied English at Stanford and holds a Master’s in Environmental Writing from the University of Montana. Her writing has been supported by Art Omi, Zvona i Nari, and Community of Writers, and she has attended Bread Loaf and Sewanee. She was also the Writers’ Lighthouse […]
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