Originally from South Florida, Garfield Hillson is a Black-Queer poet and educator working in Seattle. He believes in the beauty of words and the power of story-sharing. He believes in trauma-informed social justice healing and that art and education are the building blocks to achieve this. Garfield imagines being Black and Queer is nothing if […]
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Jim Cantú has penned poems, prose and personal essays. His work includes contributions to Writing the Land – Windblown II (2022), In Xóchitl in Cuícatl : floricanto : cien años de poesía chicanx/latinx (1920-2020) (2020), Raven Chronicles (2017), Seattle Poetic Grid (2017), Whirlwind Magazine (2016) and others. He’s been a Writer-In-Residence for La Sala’s La […]
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Nancy Mburu is an author and performing poet. Her writing amplifies the experiences and stories of East African immigrants in an authentic way that also encompasses black diasporans’ complex relationship with culture, tradition, language, gender dynamics, and race. Her style involves uplifting her culture by incorporating her native language Swahili and rooting her stories in […]
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Katharine Threat is a mixed-race writer, poet, and artist whose work resides in the crossroads of “identity” and “home.” Her work has been featured by Button Poetry and published in the intersectional feminist anthology We Need a Reckoning. She currently lives in Tacoma, Washington and is passionate about working with contemporary artists of all media […]
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A Seattle native, Dave grew up in a working-class family in White Center. He graduated from Evergreen High School and the University of Washington, where he began his newspaper career at the UW Daily. He worked as a reporter at papers in Central Washington, and later as a copy editor at Bellevue’s Eastside Journal (now […]
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Carla Shafer, 1964 student of William Stafford, writes poems addressing intersections of social justice, climate crisis, family and personal life with local and historical images. She founded the Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater Open Mic (1991), and co-founded World Peace Poets, which sponsors an International World Peace Poetry Postcard Exchange since February 2016. She holds a […]
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Brian Dang (they/them) is a Vietnamese/Chinese playwright/poet/teaching artist based in Duwamish Territory (Seattle). Brian is a proud resident playwright at Parley. Brian’s artistic homes include Seattle’s Writers in the Schools and Arts Corps. For Brian, writing is an act of envisioning an eventual communing, an opportunity to freeze time as we know it, and a […]
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Julene Tripp Weaver, a psychotherapist and writer in Seattle, worked in AIDS services for twenty-one years; she’s certified in the Wise Woman Tradition and wildcrafts to make herbal remedies. Her third poetry collection, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, won the Bisexual Book Award and four Human Relations Indie Book […]
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Geri Gale (she/her) writes and draws at night and on the weekends. Her award-winning books include In the Closet: A Triad (American Fiction Award, LGBTQ+ Fiction Finalist; IAN Book of the Year, LGBTQ+ Fiction Finalist; A Notable 100 Book in the 2022 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book; Foreword Indies Book Award, LGBTQ+ Fiction Finalist); Patrice: […]
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Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs, published by Stockport Flats in 2013. Her poems have appeared in Weekday, LVNG, La Norda Especialo, and THE ARCADIA PROJECT. She’s also written poems for short films and installations, and co-curated APOSTROPHE, a dance, music, and poetry series, with musician Gust Burns and dancers Michèle Steinwald and […]
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