Bitaniya Giday is a first-generation Ethiopian American residing in Seattle. Her writing explores the intersections between womanhood and blackness, as she reflects upon her family’s path of immigration across the world. She served as the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate in 2021 and now is a Wa Na Wari Black Spatial Histories Institute Fellow, and Truman […]
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From the 1999 Jack Straw Writers Anthology: “I grew up in Seattle, graduated from the University of Washington, then traveled around the country for the next 12 years. During that time I worked as a machinist, foundry worker, and garment worker. Throughout those years I was active in the trade union movement, on issues ranging […]
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Artist, teacher, native-arts conservator, author and storyteller, Pauline Hillaire works to carry on the heritage of Washington’s Lummi Nation and is one of the most knowledgeable living resources of the Northwest Coast’s arts and culture. Known as Scälla or “of the Killer Whale,” Hillaire is a member of the Lummi tribe of Washington State’s northern coast. […]
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Gregg Daniel Miller received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington in 2005. His research focus is on the philosophy of language, power, and aesthetics within the traditions of critical theory and liberalism (see: Mimesis and Reason, SUNY Press, 2011). He is also an improvising saxophone player. For his Jack Straw project, […]
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Danny Barksdale was raised in the Appalachian Mountain foothills in the northeast corner of Alabama. After a rigorous 18-year-training in Sunday School at a small Southern Baptist church, he left home and earned a B.A. in literature from the University of Montevallo, which is located at the geographic center of Alabama. Subsequently, he left Alabama […]
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Hannah Palin is a media and communication professional skilled in Archives and Collection Management with a background in Film and Radio Production. She was instrumental in the creation of the award winning moving image preservation program at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections and has been working on grant-funded moving image projects since 2002 […]
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Born October 21, 1923 in Netherlands, Alie Elisabeth Wiegersma Smaalders lived through the German occupation before becoming a librarian in Amsterdam. She traveled to the United States in 1952 on a Fulbright scholarship at Carnegie Mellon and later attended UCLA. She worked as a reference librarian, studied writing and translated stories from her native Frisian […]
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New Media Gallery 2011 : Talking to Ghosts: Waiting in the River between Worlds
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Josephine Ensign is a writer and a nurse with a focus on health inequities for people marginalized by poverty and homelessness. Ensign is the author of Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net, Soul Stories: Voices from the Margins, and most recently, Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness […]
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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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