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 Stacey is editing her 330 page unpublished memoir, Trial By Error: Confessions of an Eight-Year-Old Drug Smuggler, while a student […]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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Mitsu Sundvall is a writer from Berkeley, New York City, and Seattle. She has been a Harper & Row editor, an Artist Trust and Seattle Arts Commission awardee, and a Seattle Times book reviewer, and is a Hedgebrook and Edge programs alumna. 2012 Writers Program
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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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