Rebecca Hoogs is the author of a chapbook, Grenade (2005) and her poems have appeared in Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, and others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (2004) and Artist Trust of Washington State (2005). She is the Director of Education Programs and […]
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Michael Spence’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The New Republic, Antioch Review, Yale Review, Georgia Review, and Southern Review. He has published two poetry collections, The Spine (Purdue University Press) and Adam Chooses (Rose Alley Press), and has been included in the anthologies Poetry Comes Up Where It Can (University […]
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Merna Ann Hecht is a nationally known storyteller, social justice educator and published poet and essayist. She has over twenty five years of experience as a teaching artist in diverse settings through the Washington State Arts Commission, the Tacoma Public Schools and the Seattle Arts and Lectures Writers in the Schools Program. For five years […]
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Ghida Sinno was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. She earned a B.A. in English Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She has received grants from Artist Trust and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She was a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook and most recently at Casa Libre in […]
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Jennifer D. Munro is a freelance editor who loves to help writers achieve their writing and publishing goals. As a writer; she won First Place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists blog contest (under 100k monthly visitors category). She was a Top Ten Finalist in the Erma Bombeck Global Humor writing contest and is […]
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Janna Cawrse Esarey was born in 1971 in San Diego, California. She is the author of the Indie-bestselling travel memoir, The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman’s Search for the Meaning of Wife (Simon & Schuster), the humorous story of a woman who sails across the Pacific with […]
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Dedicated to presenting poetic analyses of the everyday, the Vis-a-Vis Society is an outgrowth of the literary performance group the Typing Explosion and is the current home for artists Sierra Nelson and Rachel Kessler. Using collaboratively written texts as their base, these poetry-scientists have presented their research in multi-media shows at such venues as Seattle’s […]
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Willie Smith was born and raised in the District of Colombia metropolitan area. He graduated from Reed College in 1972. Moved from Portland, Oregon, four years later to Seattle, where he has more or less existed ever since. Smith is happily married without children. As a poet and a novelist, Smith has had his writing […]
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Laurie Blauner is the author of nine books of poetry, five novels, and a book of hybrid nonfiction called I Was One of My Memories. A new novel is available from Spuyten Duyvil Press. Her latest poetry book, Come Closer, won the 2022 Library of Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander Press. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni […]
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Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, the New York Times bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough, and the novel Torch. Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. Strayed’s books have been translated into nearly forty languages around the […]
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