Kathleen Flenniken began her career as a civil engineer and didn’t discover poetry until her early 30s. Her collection, Plume (University of Washington Press, 2012), a meditation on the Hanford Nuclear Site and her home town of Richland, Washington, won the Washington State Book Award and was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award […]
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Storme Webber is a Two Spirit, Alutiiq/Black/Choctaw, internationally-nurtured poet, playwright, educator, and interdisciplinary artist. She creates blues-influenced, socially-engaged texts and images exploring identity, art activism, and the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, memory and spirit. Storme’s poetry collections include Diaspora, Blues Divine, and the forthcoming Noirish Lesbiana. Her solo theatre works include Buddy Rabbit, […]
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Felicia R. Gonzalez is a poet and author who was born in Cuba and was profoundly influenced by growing up on an island and its relationship to language and writing. In both English and Spanish, her work is intended to be an exploration of cultural identity, family dynamics, what it means to be female within […]
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Kevin Craft lives in Seattle and directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College. His books include Traverse (Lynx House Press, 2024), Vagrants & Accidentals (UW Press, 2017), and Solar Prominence (Cloudbank Books, 2005). He recently served as a Writer in Residence at the UW Rome Center, as well as for Olympic National Park. […]
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Donna Miscolta is the author of three books of fiction: When the de la Cruz Family Danced, Hola and Goodbye: Una Familia in Stories, and Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories. Donna was born in San Diego and grew up in National City, California. She received a bachelor’s degree in zoology from San Diego State and later received master’s […]
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Jennifer Jasper is a hilarious storyteller, performer, writer and director who’s been a part of the Northwest theater scene for more than two decades. She’s known for her consummate storytelling, her pristine timing and her intuitive director’s eye. In 2014, Jennifer’s play et•y•mol•o•gy was one of the six winners of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway […]
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Waverly Fitzgerald was a writer and teacher, reader and student, author and publisher, passionate researcher and urban naturalist. She collaborated with her friend, Curt Colbert, on a series of humorous mystery novels about a talking Chihuahua. In 2007, Waverly published Slow Time: Reclaiming the Natural Rhythms of Life, which helps readers shift their relationship with […]
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The Bushwick Book Club Seattle is a group of musicians who write and perform original music inspired by literature. They produced a piece of music called “Out Under Diamonds” inspired by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,through their Jack Straw artist residency.
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Gregory Fields is a professor of philosophy who specializes in Native North Pacific Coast culture, history, philosophy, and language preservation/revitalization. He is the founding faculty advisor of Southern Illinois University’s minor in Religious Studies and he teaches courses for the minor in Asian Studies. Artist Support Program 2013: Produce a media companion to the book Sacred Breath: Pacific […]
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Wendy Call (she/her) wrote the award-winning nonfiction book No Word for Welcome, co-edited Telling True Stories and Best Literary Translations, and translated three collections of trilingual poetry by Indigenous Mexican women. She lives on Duwamish land (Southeast Seattle) and Mixtec/Zapotec land (Oaxaca City) and teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni Poetry […]
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