Stacy Nathaniel Jackson is a trans poet, playwright, and visual artist of African American and Filipina descent originally from Los Angeles, who began writing after a serendipitous corporate layoff. His artistic practice in multiple forms addresses gender, family history, and conflict emergence. His debut novel The Ephemera Collector is forthcoming from Liveright/W.W. Norton. His work […]
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Catherine DeNardo studied killer whale behavior in the Norwegian Arctic and worked as a volunteer at the Center for Whale Research on San Juan Island, Washington. She is a former editor at Conservation magazine (now Anthropocene) and has worked as a freelance editor on several natural history books. Catherine’s writing on killer whales has been published in Outside Magazine’s Long […]
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Anna Homler is a vocal, visual and performance artist based in Los Angeles. She has performed and exhibited her work in venues around the world. With a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, Homler sings in an improvised melodic language. Her work explores alternative means of communication and the poetics of ordinary things. She […]
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Jesse Minkert’s work has appeared in about fifty literary journals including the Cream City Review, Confrontation, Mount Hope, the Floating Bridge Review, the Minetta Review, Poetry Northwest, Common Knowledge, and Harpur Palate. Thanks to Raven Chronicles, he is a 2016 Pushcart Nominee. Over twenty years he has written about fifty short radio stories that were […]
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Grey Eagle, or Ken Jackson (1923-2008), was director of Sacred Circle Storytellers and a founding member of Read Eagle Soaring, a Native American theater group that produced his AIDS-awareness and substance abuse play, Story Circles. Grey Eagle told stories for many years in North America and Europe, especially in the Nordic countries. A book of […]
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Kevin J. O’Conner is a poet, editor, photographer, graphic designer, composer, and artist based in Bellingham, Washington. Artist Support Program 1994
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Stacey Levine is the author of five books of uniquely original voice-driven fiction. Her novel MICE 1961, a comic-dramatic exploration of two sisters’ relationship and set during the Cold War, will be published by in 2024. Levine’s short fiction collection THE GIRL WITH BROWN FUR, longlisted for The Story Prize, was also shortlisted for the Washington State […]
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Y York is the author of more than 50 plays, half for young people and their adults, half for adults without their young people. Her popularly and critically acclaimed plays are noted for their relevance and humor. Her adaptation of Janet Taylor Lisle’s Newbery Honor Book Afternoon of the Elves has been produced in virtually […]
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Joann Farías is a writer in many formats. As a script writer, Joann Farías’s opera libretto, Past the Checkpoints, with music composed by David Hanlon, was produced by Houston Grand Opera, and is available for touring. Her play The Land of Corn and Power was read at the ACT Multicultural Playwrights Festival (2011). No More […]
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Knox Gardner is the publisher of Entre Ríos Books, a poetry press based in Seattle focusing on Northwest writers in collaboration and translation. When he finds the time, he also writes poems. His debut collection, Woodland, with music by Aaron Otheim, was a CLMP Firecracker Award finalist in 2020. Artist Support Program 1999
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