Anne Liu Kellor was born in Seattle and now lives in Olympia, WA. Her essays have appeared in Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally (Seal Press) and Thoughts Out of School (Peter Lang Publishing). After graduating from The Evergreen State College in 1999, Anne lived and traveled in China, Tibet, and Southeast Asia for […]
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Allison Green has published a novel, Half-Moon Scar, and stories in Raven Chronicles, Willow Springs (1996 fiction contest winner), Evergreen Chronicles, and The Teacher’s Voice. Awards include a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant and residencies at Hedgebrook and Soapstone. She teaches writing, literature, and women’s studies at Highline Community College, where she chairs […]
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Jennifer Culkin, RN BSN CCRN, is an essayist and fiction writer. Born in Boston, MA, she graduated from Russell Sage College, Troy, NY, in 1979 and embarked on a bicoastal career in neonatal, pediatric and adult cardiac critical care, high-risk obstetrics and emergency flight nursing. Though long of tooth (and wattle) to be a student […]
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John Burgess grew up in upstate New York, worked on a survey crew in Montana, taught English in Japan, and since 1985 has lived in Seattle. A 2006 Jack Straw writer, he has six books of poetry from Ravenna Press. He’s a co-instigator with the Band of Poets. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series: Punk […]
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Sylvia is an editorial fellow at Shenandoah literary journal. She also serves as a first reader for The PEN America Prison Writing Program and a poetry reader for the journal Ploughshares. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Ponder Review, Spilt Milk, Allegory Ridge, The Santa Clara Review, and elsewhere. She has received support from the […]
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Gavin Reub is the Artistic Director of The Seagull Project, which is a Gregory Award-winning company with an ensemble of 26 actors. Also, he has helped develop more than 20 local plays as the Director of Creative Development for The Umbrella Project, which exists to develop and advocate for diverse new theatrical work by demonstrating […]
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne is a multiracial writer, multimedia producer, and nonprofit director. His debut novel, Transplants (Simon & Schuster, 2025), was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. He is the author of the short story collection What Never Leaves, and his writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, HuffPost, Catapult, Literary Hub, […]
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Kristie Song is a Chinese American writer, journalist, and illustrator from Southern California. She is a graduate student at UC Berkeley and is usually thinking about lost memories, childhood scraps, and her multilingual upbringing for her stories. 2021 Writers Program
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Abi Pollokoff is a Seattle-based writer and book artist with work in Denver Quarterly, Foundry, Poetry Northwest, and Black Warrior Review, among others. She has held fellowships or residencies with the Hugo House, the Seattle Review of Books, and more. Abi is the events manager for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, the managing editor for […]
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Paulette Perhach is an award-winning writer and writing coach. Her work has been in The New York Times, Slate, Hobart, The Journal, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Vice. She’s best known for writing the globally viral essay A Story of a Fuck Off Fund and for her book, Welcome to the Writer’s Life, which Poets & Writers selected for its list of Best Books for […]
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