Joshua E. Griffin (who goes by Josh) lives life learning love(d). Experiences through travel and letting go of self, have allowed him to walk a decolonization path of unlearning and healing. Quote: I am my ancestors’ wildest dreams – you are your ancestors’ collective reality. A biography cannot highlight nor summarize an existence. If you wish to […]
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Rasheena Fountain centers environmental advocacy and justice in her work. She has received fellowships and support from the Jack Straw Writers Program, National Audubon, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her film, Dropped Down Blues, debuted in the “How We Carry Water” 2024 exhibit at PRAx. In 2025, she released In the Aftermath, a blues […]
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E.J. Batiste is a professional writer, poet, artist and award-winning dramatist originally from Raeford, North Carolina. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. E.J. ‘s work often reflects upon her […]
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Positively Positive (they/them) is a multifaceted artist and an African-American/black queer, transgender, nonbinary, HIV positive at birth educator, spoken word artist, and a hip hop emcee who is a survivor of violence. Positively Positive’s artistic journey is a testament to resilience. They hold a graduate certificate in Environmental Education from the University of Washington’s Islandwood enriching […]
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Stacy Nathaniel Jackson is a trans poet, playwright, and visual artist of African American and Filipina descent originally from Los Angeles, who began writing after a serendipitous corporate layoff. His artistic practice in multiple forms addresses gender, family history, and conflict emergence. His debut novel The Ephemera Collector is forthcoming from Liveright/W.W. Norton. His work […]
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Jesse Minkert’s work has appeared in about fifty literary journals including the Cream City Review, Confrontation, Mount Hope, the Floating Bridge Review, the Minetta Review, Poetry Northwest, Common Knowledge, and Harpur Palate. Thanks to Raven Chronicles, he is a 2016 Pushcart Nominee. Over twenty years he has written about fifty short radio stories that were […]
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Kevin J. O’Conner is a poet, editor, photographer, graphic designer, composer, and artist based in Bellingham, Washington. Artist Support Program 1994
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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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