Roberto Ascalon is a poet, writer, arts educator, and spoken-word performance artist. Roberto uses his love for the craft of poetry to transform the world that surrounds him. He connects with audiences via universal narratives that encompass topics like racism, first kisses, love, family, and Spam. He has taught at Nova High School, participated in […]
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Michael Dylan Welch’s poems have been published in hundreds of publications, including two Norton anthologies, and translated into fourteen languages. Michael is currently the vice president of Haiku Society of America. He co-founded the Haiku North America conference in 1991, and the American Haiku Archives in 1996. Michael’s small press, Press Here, publishes haiku and […]
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Marjorie Manwaring lives in Seattle, where she is a freelance writer and an editor for the online poetry and art journal the DMQ Review. Her work has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Floating Bridge Review, Sentence, 5 AM, Crab Creek Review, and other journals, and her chapbook Magic Word was published in 2007. Marjorie […]
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Esther Altshul Helfgott is a non-fiction writer and poet with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. She curates the It’s About Time Writers Reading Series at the Seattle Public Library and facilitates the women’s writing group Poeming the Silence. Her work appears in numerous journals, including Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature; […]
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Martha Clarkson manages corporate workplace design during the day and is a fiction and poetry writer. Her work can be found in Seattle Review, monkeybicycle, Nimrod, Portland Review, Opium, elimae, and others. She has story mentions as ‘Notable Readings’ in 2007 and 2009 Best Non-Required Reading. 2010 Writers Program
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Tara Roth is a musician and writer who is originally from the Chicago area and now lives in Seattle. She has played, recorded, and performed in various projects with local musicians, including the duo The Apostrophes, a current project with her husband. She has a Master’s degree in English from Western Illinois University and is […]
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Bill Carty lives in Seattle and is the author of We Sailed on the Lake (Bunny Presse/Fonograf Editions, 2023) and Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books, 2019), which was longlisted for The Believer Book Award. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and University of North-Carolina-Wilmington (MFA), and he has received poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts […]
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Katherine Grace Bond has written or contributed to more than 20 books, including the bestselling Legend of the Valentine (Zonderkidz) and Peculiar Pilgrims: Stories from Left Hand of God, (ed. Linda Wendling, Hourglass Books) Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Gayle Brandeis’s Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperSanFrancisco), […]
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Barr is a photographer and writer living in West Seattle, Washington. A contributor to The New York Times, Tin House, Oxford American, Seattle Weekly, and others, he is currently at work on a photo series documenting Seattle’s diverse, working class neighborhoods White Center and South Park. 2010 Writers Program
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Kevin Simmonds is a musician and writer originally from New Orleans. He studied music at Vanderbilt University, Middle Tennessee State University and completed the Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina. He founded Tono International Arts Association, an international arts presenter in northern Japan (Iwate Prefecture). Kevin received a Fulbright fellowship to Singapore where he […]
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