Lana Hechtman Ayers, MFA, has shepherded over a hundred poetry volumes into print in her role as managing editor for three small presses. Her work appears in Rattle, The London Reader, Peregrine, and elsewhere. Lana’s ninth collection, The Autobiography of Rain, was published by Fernwood Press. Lana is a Hedgebrook alum and holds an MFA […]
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Born in Queens, NY, Brian McGuigan is a poet, performer and raconteur, living in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle. His chapbook More Than I Left Behind, was published by Spankstra Press (2006), and he is currently at work on a full-length manuscript of poetry entitled Eat the Rich. His poems have appeared in Filter, […]
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Sharon Cumberland is an Associate Professor of English at Seattle University and will direct the Creative Writing Program starting in 2008-09. She has published two chapbooks, The Arithmetic of Mourning (Green Rock Press), and Sharon Cumberland: Greatest Hits 1985-2000 (Pudding House Press) as well as poems in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kalliope, […]
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Rebecca Hoogs is the author of a chapbook, Grenade (2005) and her poems have appeared in Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, and others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (2004) and Artist Trust of Washington State (2005). She is the Director of Education Programs and […]
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Michael Spence’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The New Republic, Antioch Review, Yale Review, Georgia Review, and Southern Review. He has published two poetry collections, The Spine (Purdue University Press) and Adam Chooses (Rose Alley Press), and has been included in the anthologies Poetry Comes Up Where It Can (University […]
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Dedicated to presenting poetic analyses of the everyday, the Vis-a-Vis Society is an outgrowth of the literary performance group the Typing Explosion and is the current home for artists Sierra Nelson and Rachel Kessler. Using collaboratively written texts as their base, these poetry-scientists have presented their research in multi-media shows at such venues as Seattle’s […]
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Laurie Blauner is the author of nine books of poetry, five novels, and a book of hybrid nonfiction called I Was One of My Memories. A new novel is available from Spuyten Duyvil Press. Her latest poetry book, Come Closer, won the 2022 Library of Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander Press. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni […]
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A writer and photographer, Susan Landgraf has published more than 300 poems in more than 150 journals, most recently in Nimrod, Kalliope, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Riverwind, Interim, A Room of One’s Own, Ploughshares, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Calyx, Spoon River Quarterly, Sun Dog Review, and Paintbrush, among others, and been nominated twice for a […]
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Anna Maria Hong earned a BA in philosophy at Yale University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. Her poems have been published in many journals and anthologies, including 250 Poems: A Portable Anthology (2012) and The Best American Poetry 2013. Hong served as a […]
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Doug Nufer is a specialist in literary constraints, a technique that applies certain conditions to or establishes a pattern within writing. Doug is the author of Negativeland (Autonomedia), Never Again (Four Walls Eight Windows/ Black Square), and On the Roast (Chiasmus), all of which came out in 2004, and of The Mudflat Man/ The River […]
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