Johanna Stoberock is the author of the novels Pigs (Forthcoming, Red Hen Press, September 2019) and City of Ghosts (W.W. Norton). Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Better: Culture & Lit, The Wilson Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Front Porch, and the 2014 Best of the Net Anthology. A 2012 Jack Straw […]
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Nick Wong is a writer and photographer who explores culture through the art of boxing. A Mary Gates Scholar, a Bonderman Fellow, and a VONA alum, he served as the assistant editor at the International Examiner from 2009-2010 and now freelances for online boxing websites. He is currently writing his first book about his journey […]
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Poet and writer Sharon Hashimoto was born and raised in Seattle. She earned both her BA and MFA from the University of Washington. Her first collection of poetry, The Crane Wife (reprinted by Red Hen Press, 2021), won a Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Her second poetry collection, More American, won the 2021 Off the Grid […]
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Sally Neumann, currently a proud resident of Seattle, is finishing her Bachelor’s degree in English and Psychology at the University of Washington. She’s fascinated by people, emotions, cults, the occult, relationships, and all the complexities they engender. Though she’ll never be able to understand any of them fully, there’s nothing she loves more than to […]
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Claudia Rowe is a journalist, essayist, and writer of creative nonfiction. For seven years she was a regular contributor to The New York Times and several national magazines. In 2003, after a residency at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, she flew back to New York, packed up her car and hit the road for Seattle, where […]
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Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a short story collection, three novels set in 19th Century Mexico and the Southwest, and a collection of essays based on family history. Her work has received the Western States Book Award, the Governor’s Writers Award, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award. She received her second Artist […]
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Robert Lamirande is a writer and musician whose work has appeared in Flashquake, The Splinter Generation, Bricolage, and several others. He has performed with Seattle bands Randal Cobb and Sound of Bagheera, and his music has appeared in the full-length feature film, The Curse of Duncan Carbuncle. He is currently employed as a writer by […]
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Katharine Whitcomb is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Habitats, published by Poetry Northwest Editions in January 2024, and two chapbooks. She has been awarded many fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, MacDowell, FAWC, and others. She has had work published in many journals and anthologies, including Making Poems and Dorothy […]
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Annette Spaulding-Convy is a poet and editor in the Seattle area. Her full length collection, In Broken Latin, is published by the University of Arkansas Press (Fall 2012) as a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, In the Convent We Become Clouds, won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award and was […]
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Debra Jarvis works as a per diem chaplain at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. She is the author of It’s Not about the Hair: And Other Certainties of Life & Cancer (Sasquatch, 2007), an account of her time with cancer as she continues to work as an oncology chaplain. Her book The Journey Through AIDS: […]
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