Nancy Mburu is an author and performing poet. Her writing amplifies the experiences and stories of East African immigrants in an authentic way that also encompasses black diasporans’ complex relationship with culture, tradition, language, gender dynamics, and race. Her style involves uplifting her culture by incorporating her native language Swahili and rooting her stories in […]
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Blue Cactus Press is a hybrid publisher crafting books that serve as community resources. We center voices and stories from historically marginalized groups in our books, staff, and collaborations. Many of our books are about community building, self-actual action, caregiving, and equity. Artist Support Program 2023: Produce an audiobook of Katharine Threat’s Anatomy of My […]
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Katharine Threat is a mixed-race writer, poet, and artist whose work resides in the crossroads of “identity” and “home.” Her work has been featured by Button Poetry and published in the intersectional feminist anthology We Need a Reckoning. She currently lives in Tacoma, Washington and is passionate about working with contemporary artists of all media […]
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Kaitlyn Teer’s essays have been published in Orion, Electric Lit, Catapult, Redivider, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction was listed as notable in the 2017 Best American Essays anthology and a special mention in the 2018 Pushcart Prize anthology. Her essays have received Prairie Schooner‘s Bernice Slote Award and Fourth Genre’s Michael Steinberg Essay Prize. She was […]
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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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Hana Choi is a first-generation immigrant writer from South Korea. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Epoch, Mississippi Review, and CRAFT Literary, and has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her short stories have been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and […]
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Robert Francis Flor, poet and playwright, is a Seattle native from the Central District and Rainier Valley. His plays largely revolve around Seattle’s Filipino community and its interplay with American society. Ten-minute plays “The Injury” (2013), “Pinoy Hill” (2014), and “Pinakbet” (2015) were performed in the Eclectic Theatre Festival. Mabuhay Majesty, a full- length play, was […]
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Sumu (Su) Tasib is a genderqueer author and scientist living in Seattle, Washington. They have been writing for four decades and publishing scientific articles for three. Su sees writing as a path to social as well as scientific change; their stories are meant to expand perspectives while they entertain. Their debut book, A Boy Named […]
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Carla Shafer, 1964 student of William Stafford, writes poems addressing intersections of social justice, climate crisis, family and personal life with local and historical images. She founded the Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater Open Mic (1991), and co-founded World Peace Poets, which sponsors an International World Peace Poetry Postcard Exchange since February 2016. She holds a […]
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Brian Dang (they/them) is a Vietnamese/Chinese playwright/poet/teaching artist based in Duwamish Territory (Seattle). Brian is a proud resident playwright at Parley. Brian’s artistic homes include Seattle’s Writers in the Schools and Arts Corps. For Brian, writing is an act of envisioning an eventual communing, an opportunity to freeze time as we know it, and a […]
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