L. J. Morin

December 30, 2016

L. J. Morin (Lisa Carcia) has been making her way northward along the West Coast since she was born, migrating from San Diego to San Francisco to Seattle (with detours to Texas, Minnesota, and Japan along the way). Her recent credits include an honorable mention for the 2015 James Hearst Poetry Prize (North American Review), […]

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Ross McMeekin

December 30, 2016

Ross McMeekin’s stories appear or are forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Redivider, PANK, and Tin House online. His nonfiction has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Green Mountains Review, and The Rumpus. He is a weekly columnist for the Ploughshares blog, where he reviews short stories. McMeekin holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of […]

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Erin Malone

December 30, 2016

Erin Malone is the author of  Site of Disappearance, finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Hover, as well as a chapbook, What Sound Does It Make. The recipient of grants from Washington’s Artist Trust, 4Culture, and the Colorado Council of the Arts, she’s taught writing at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Richard […]

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Martha Kreiner

December 30, 2016

Martha Kreiner holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Michigan State University. Her work has appeared in Floating Bridge Review, ILK journal, and Hubbub. With her beloved partner Amy, she is writing a dystopian tween novella they hope to publish one day, under a name no one will recognize. 2015 Writers Program

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Clare Johnson

December 30, 2016

Clare Johnson is a writer and visual artist, published in Blithe House Quarterly, quiet Shorts, Frogmore Papers, 14 Magazine, Lumina, and Cranky. Solo exhibitions include Oxford’s North Wall, Bridport Arts Centre, Hugo House, Storefronts Seattle, and London’s Guy’s Hospital. She is a Michael S. Harper Poetry Prize recipient, and her ongoing Post-it Note Project (drawing […]

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Bernard Grant

December 30, 2016

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’

December 30, 2016

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

December 30, 2016

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

December 30, 2016

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

December 30, 2016

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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