Cynthia Liu
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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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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Suzanne Villegas was born in Califas, Texas. She writes in all genres and in describing her work says: “I like to say I get technical in English and emotional in Spanish.” 2000 Writers Program
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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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Susan Martinez is a native of Seattle, and is currently a student in the University of Washington Creative Writing Program. Susan is a poet, and also the co-owner of a Pike Place Market jewelry business. 2000 Writers Program
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Diane Westergaard’s poems have appeared in The Written Arts, Bellingham Review, Three Rivers Poetry Review, Cape Rock, Fine Madness, Kansas Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Talus and Scree, Point No Point, and Crab Creek Review. With guitarist Garylee Johnson, she co-produced and co-wrote Ghost in the Garden, a chapbook and audiotape of poetry, music and song. 1999 […]
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From the 1999 Jack Straw Writers Anthology: “I grew up in Seattle, graduated from the University of Washington, then traveled around the country for the next 12 years. During that time I worked as a machinist, foundry worker, and garment worker. Throughout those years I was active in the trade union movement, on issues ranging […]
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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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Rebecca Meredith is a poet, writer, and psychotherapist, as well as a cofounder of the Redmond Association of SPokenword (RASP), who served as its coordinator and president for years. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, and performed in such venues as the Burning Word Poetry Festival, the Seattle Moon Viewing […]
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Becka Mara McKay is a poet, translator, and teacher. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington and an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa, where she also received a PhD in comparative literature. Her first book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, was published by […]
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