Suzanne Bottelli’s poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Scoundrel Time, The Collagist, and Prairie Schooner, among others. Her newest chapbook, American Grubble, is available from Ravenna Press’ Triples series. The Feltville Formation, her first chapbook, was with Finishing Line Press. Born and raised in New Jersey, Suzanne is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ […]
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Jack Straw teaching artist Camilla Kintana is an actor and coach from Portland, OR, who came to Seattle to attend Cornish College of the Arts and loved the city so much she decided to stick around. She specialized in voice and dialect work while in her BFA program, and now she gets to teach and […]
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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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Originally from South Florida, Garfield Hillson is a Black-Queer poet and educator working in Seattle. He believes in the beauty of words and the power of story-sharing. He believes in trauma-informed social justice healing and that art and education are the building blocks to achieve this. Garfield imagines being Black and Queer is nothing if […]
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Jim Cantú has penned poems, prose and personal essays. His work includes contributions to Writing the Land – Windblown II (2022), In Xóchitl in Cuícatl : floricanto : cien años de poesía chicanx/latinx (1920-2020) (2020), Raven Chronicles (2017), Seattle Poetic Grid (2017), Whirlwind Magazine (2016) and others. He’s been a Writer-In-Residence for La Sala’s La […]
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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 the author of the poetry chapbook Anatomy of My Mixed Body and the editor of the speculative fiction anthology If the Storm Clears. Her work has been featured by Blue Cactus Press, Pile Press, and Button Poetry. She is a mixed race writer and artist whose work resides in the crosswords of […]
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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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