Dennis Caswell lives outside Woodinville and works as a software engineer in the aviation industry. He holds degrees in computer science from UC Berkeley and UCLA and spent the eighties and nineties designing and programming computer games and educational software in northern California, where he grew up. He moved to Washington with his family in […]
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Larry Crist is a performing poet with two books, Undertow Overtures and Alibi for the Scapegoat. He lived in Seattle 25 years before moving back to his hometown, Trinidad in Humboldt County where he writes, does theater and looks after his 91 year old mother. He has also lived in Chicago, Houston, London, and Philadelphia, […]
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Peter Munro is a fisheries scientist who works in the Bering Sea, the Aleutian Islands, the Gulf of Alaska, and Seattle. He has had poems published here and there. 2013 Writers Program
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Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize, as well as House of Sugar House of Stone. She co-edited The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Critic, her work has been supported by Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, and Jack Straw. She graduated with honors from Stanford […]
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Jay McAleer is a poetry and fiction writer from Seattle. He has a BFA from DePaul University and a certificate in Literary Fiction from the University of Washington. He has previously published essays in the short-lived magazine The Austin Idealist and is currently at work on a novel. 2013 Writers Program
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Jeannine Hall Gailey is a poet with MS who served as Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She’s the author of six books of poetry, including Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and the SFPA’s Elgin Award, and her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions. Her […]
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Kaia Chessen is a writer and cellist living in Seattle, Washington. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, where she was nominated for an Associated Writing Programs Intro Awards in 2005 and co-authored the short story Getting Undressed with novelist Shawn Wong in 2007. 2012 Writers Program
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Stacey Bennetts is a mother, a writer, and a criminal defense attorney in Seattle, Washington. She married her Hastings College of the Law classmate – and landlord during her house arrest stint – Dennis Carroll. Stacey is editing her 330 page unpublished memoir, Trial By Error: Confessions of an Eight-Year-Old Drug Smuggler, while a student […]
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Lacey Jane Henson grew up in Illinois, and spent a few years in New Mexico before landing in Seattle. She earned an MFA from the University of Washington in 2006 and currently organizes a popular local reading series called The Off Hours. In 2009, she won first-prize in the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction […]
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Carol Light received the Robert H. Winner award from the Poetry Society of America in 2013 and an award from Artist Trust in 2012. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Narrative Magazine, American Life in Poetry, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. She studied poetry in the University of Washington MFA program, where she was awarded […]
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