Poet and writer Sharon Hashimoto was born and raised in Seattle. She earned both her BA and MFA from the University of Washington. Her first collection of poetry, The Crane Wife (reprinted by Red Hen Press, 2021), won a Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Her second poetry collection, More American, won the 2021 Off the Grid […]
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Katharine Whitcomb is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Habitats, published by Poetry Northwest Editions in January 2024, and two chapbooks. She has been awarded many fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, MacDowell, FAWC, and others. She has had work published in many journals and anthologies, including Making Poems and Dorothy […]
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Annette Spaulding-Convy is a poet and editor in the Seattle area. Her full length collection, In Broken Latin, is published by the University of Arkansas Press (Fall 2012) as a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, In the Convent We Become Clouds, won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award and was […]
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Anne McDuffie writes poetry, essays and reviews. She was a 2011 Jack Straw fellow, and was awarded a 2012 Individual Artist Projects grant from 4Culture for Deep Geography, a series of poems written in collaboration with painter Ann Vandervelde. From 2007 to 2015, Anne worked as literary assistant to the late poet Madeline DeFrees. She […]
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Ann Teplick is a Seattle poet, playwright, and prose writer, with an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College. For eighteen years she’s written with youth in schools, juvenile detention centers, psychiatric hospitals and literary non-profits. Her work has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Drash, Chrysanthemum, Hunger Mountain, and others. Her plays have been showcased […]
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Wendl is a writer and professor of architecture whose work (built and written) is influenced by the processes, products, history and discourse of the (silent) built and made things around us—particularly architecture. A native of Nebraska, she studied at Iowa State University and was 2005 Pearl Hogrefe Fellow in Creative Writing. She lives in Portland, […]
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Denise Calvetti Michaels was awarded the Crosscurrents Prize for Poetry by the Washington Community College Humanities Association for her prose poem Notes on New Orleans. Her work is in anthologies such as In Praise of Farmland (Whit Press), Mute Note Earthward (WPA), Between Sleeps (En Theos Press), and Beyond Forgetting (Kent State University Press). Polenta, […]
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Roberto Ascalon is a poet, writer, arts educator, and spoken-word performance artist. Roberto uses his love for the craft of poetry to transform the world that surrounds him. He connects with audiences via universal narratives that encompass topics like racism, first kisses, love, family, and Spam. He has taught at Nova High School, participated in […]
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Michael Dylan Welch’s poems have been published in hundreds of publications, including two Norton anthologies, and translated into fourteen languages. Michael is currently the vice president of Haiku Society of America. He co-founded the Haiku North America conference in 1991, and the American Haiku Archives in 1996. Michael’s small press, Press Here, publishes haiku and […]
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Esther Altshul Helfgott is a non-fiction writer and poet with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. She curates the It’s About Time Writers Reading Series at the Seattle Public Library and facilitates the women’s writing group Poeming the Silence. Her work appears in numerous journals, including Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature; […]
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