Jamaica (she/her) is a poet and educator. Her first book, Bone Language, was published by YesYes Books in June 2023. Her work has appeared in Guernica, World Literature Today, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner and more. She is the recipient of multiple awards including a 2023 Pushcart Prize and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department […]
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Quenton Baker is a poet and educator from Seattle. His current focus is the fact of blackness in American society. His work has appeared in Jubilat, Vinyl, Apogee, The James Franco Review, and Cura. He is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of the James W. Ray Venture Project award from Artist Trust. […]
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Ellie Belew lives in the world of stories we tell ourselves and each other. She writes them down as novels, short prose pieces, and community histories. Belew has published one novel, Run, Plant, Fly (with audio CD produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program); two labor histories, Fully Involved, Bringing Power to the People; and […]
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Calvin Gimpelevich is a fiction writer whose work appears in Electric Literature, Plentitude, Glitterwolf, cream city, THEM, and other publications. He is the recipient of awards from Artist Trust, Jack Straw Cultural Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. 2017 Writers Program
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Brandon Young is a spoken word artist operating primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently residing in Seattle. His work combines deadpan humor with historical events. He has been a featured performer at QACon 2013, APATure 2014, the New Sh!t Show, the Racket and the San Francisco Queer Open Mic. He is published in […]
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Ashlan Runyan is a writer who believes that sometimes the best way to show up to your work is to switch mediums and teach yourself to knit a pair of socks, or quilt, or how to make herbal medicine, or dance. That is, Ashlan is a writer amongst a few other things. She is always […]
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afrose fatima ahmed is a hybrid Texan-Washingtonian who writes on city streets and at the tops of evergreens. She holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Texas and is a VONA alumna. afrose is the author of four self-published poetry chapbooks. She is currently working on a full length collection of poems […]
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Erin Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Erin is the author of the multimedia memoir, What Hadn’t Happened, winner of a 2013 Digital Storymakers Award Grand Prize in multimedia nonfiction, sponsored by The Atavist and the Pearson Foundation. Her interactive documentary, The Olive Project: An Oral History […]
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E.T. Russian is a cartoonist, author and documentarian from Seattle. Russian is the author of The Ring of Fire Anthology, a member of cartooning collective THE HAND, a featured performer in Sins Invalid and Co-Director of the documentary Third Antenna. New Media Gallery 2016-17: CASTING SHADOWS
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Steve Rowland, radio producer and documentarian, uses music, theater and art as windows to explore issues in American history, society, race relations, creativity, and human possibility. He has won nearly every major award in broadcasting including two Peabody Awards, The Prix Italia, The CPB, & The Ohio State Award and was awarded a Pew Fellowship […]
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