Charlie Burks (1946-2018) was a Seattle poet; author of the play Marvin, the Nephew of God and the book/CD Since the Ace; coordinated Western Edge, a writers publication put out by Arts Resource Services; and was a regular at Red Sky Poetry Theater. Artist Support Program 2000: Since the Ace
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Sasa Mlakar is a singer, composer, poet and movement artist whose work seeks to explore the relationship between those disciplines. Artist Support Program 2001
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Richard Gibbons (1932-2023) was a fiction and non fiction writer and storyteller based in Seattle. He edited for newspapers and magazines, wrote articles for The New Republic and Washington Magazine, and co-wrote and illustrated a volume of folk tales called Tejocote published by Mexico’s Editorial Novaro. Dick also wrote stories for Ellery Queen and songs […]
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Award-winning Nigerian writer, visual artist, performance poet, public speaker, filmmaker, and actor Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde (1968-2013) was a self-taught artist versed in several disciplines including visual arts, theater, and writing. She wrote an award winning play entitled The Woman with a Past, and a book of poetry titled Conversations with the Soul at 3:00AM. She performed […]
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Susan Starbuck is emeritus at Antioch University, Seattle, where she taught literature, history, and writing in education. She is the author of Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment (2002), a biography of an early Seattle activist who embraced a wide variety of social, political, and environmental causes. Artist Support Program 2002: Radio documentary on the life […]
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Cynthia Rose is a British and American national based in Paris, France. She works as an author, reporter and broadcaster (BBC, NPR), dealing with culture and arts criticism. Work as Paris correspondent includes CRAFTS (UK) and The Comics Journal (US) Artist Support Program 2023: Mix, edit, and sweeten recorded audio for a 20 minute film […]
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Brian Goedde is an assistant professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia. A graduate of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, he has written personal essays for The New York Times, The Seattle Review, and Full Grown People (The Other Awkward Age), among other publications. Artist Support Program 2003: Record and produce […]
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George R. Wolfe is the founder of both The LaLa Times, dubbed “The Onion for L.A.,” and LA River Expeditions, a group that advocates for endangered rivers. His activist work has been featured in The New York Times, PBS, BBC, and in the documentary Rock the Boat: Saving America’s Wildest River. Wolfe’s first novel, Blake’s […]
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Stokley Towles tells stories. Venues showing his work have ranged from the sidewalk of the corner of 151st and 8th Ave SW in Burien where story plaques tell a 10,000 year history of that block, to the University of Washington where for two years he acted as a professor and gave lectures to students in […]
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Nancy Redwine’s most recent publications are included in the anthology The New Fuck You (Semiotexte, 1995) and the Fremont Fair chapbook (LD Books). In 1996 she read at the Rendezvous Reading Series and Red and Black Books. 1997 Writers Program
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