Bernard Grant is a recent winner of the 2015 Paper Nautilus Press Chapbook Debut Series Chapbook contest. His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Stirring, Fiction Southeast, Compose, and other journals. He is the Associate Essays Editor for The Nervous Breakdown and is currently enrolled in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program. 2015 […]
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Laura Da’ is a poet and public school teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and The Institute of American Indian Arts. Da’ is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Her first chapbook, The Tecumseh Motel, was published in Effigies II. […]
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Emily Bedard grew up in Salt Lake City, got an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana, and now lives in Seattle. She teaches for the Henry Art Gallery, the Hugo House, and Seattle Art & Lectures, through which she currently serves as the resident poet for the Roosevelt High School Roughriders. Her poems […]
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Linda Andrews’s poetry and stories have been featured in numerous journals and reviews including Calyx, Nimrod, Spindrift, Poetry Northwest, Crab Creek Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, CutBank, Willow Springs, Midwest Quarterly, Gadfly, and Seattle Review. A book of her poems, Escape of the Bird Women, was published by Blue Begonia Press and received a Washington State […]
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Ruby Hansen Murray is a citizen of the Osage Nation living in the lower Columbia River estuary. She is a writer and photographer, whose prose appears on Oregon Public Radio and in Wild in the Willamette, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, American Ghost: Poets on Life after Industry, Tribal College Journal, Salal, and North […]
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Carolyne Wright’s latest books are Masquerade: a Memoir in Poetry (Lost Horse Press, 2021) and This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse, 2017), whose title poem received a Pushcart Prize and appeared in The Best American Poetry. Wright is a Seattle native who has lived and taught on fellowships in Chile, Brazil, […]
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Shontina Vernon is a writer/musician/performer/educator. Her interdisciplinary work fuses live music, poetic narrative, and multi-media to tell the diverse stories of underrepresented communities. She is a Hedgebrook writer, a National Performance Network touring artist, a recipient of 4Culture’s Artist Grant and a nominated playwright on the Kilroy’s List. Her work has been produced by the […]
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Alison Stagner’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in journals such as Mid-American Review, The Southeast Review, and H_NGM_N; she is the recipient of the 2015-2016 James Wright Poetry Award. She holds an M.F.A in Poetry from the University of Washington and works as the Events Coordinator for Seattle Arts & Lectures. 2016 Writers Program
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Anis Gisele lives in Seattle, by way of Manila, Philippines. She is a queer immigrant writer of color whose work is celebrated as much as it is minimized and/or blindly consumed. Her writing draws together personal narrative, intergenerational pain, and identity politics. She has decided to stop writing her bios like resumes. 2016 Writers Program
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Shin Yu Pai is the creator and host of Ten Thousand Things, an award-winning podcast on Asian American stories that she produced from 2022 to 2024 for KUOW/NPR. The show was recognized by the Asian American Podcasters Association, The Signal Awards, and won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2023, Ten Thousand Things was […]
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