Rebecca Meredith

August 10, 2023

Rebecca Meredith is a poet, writer, and psychotherapist, as well as a cofounder of the Redmond Association of SPokenword (RASP), who served as its coordinator and president for years. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, and performed in such venues as the Burning Word Poetry Festival, the Seattle Moon Viewing […]

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Becka Mara McKay

August 10, 2023

Becka Mara McKay is a poet, translator, and teacher. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington and an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa, where she also received a PhD in comparative literature. Her first book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, was published by […]

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Kent Chadwick

August 10, 2023

Kent Chadwick is a West Coast poet and writer who lives on Bainbridge Island. His poetry has been published in Left Bank, Sojourners, Fishtrap Anthology, 1995, and the anthology Deep Down Things: Poems of the Inland Pacific Northwest. In July 1993 he exhibited the fiction painting installation “I Am A Man” with his brother Gregg […]

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Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki

August 10, 2023

Betsy Aoki is a poet, short story writer, and game producer. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Asimov’s Magazine of Science Fiction, 580 Split, The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop), and anthologized in Climbing Lightly Through Forests (a Ursula K. Le Guin tribute poetry anthology). In 2021 she won the Auburn Witness […]

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Kelli Russell Agodon

August 10, 2023

Kelli Russell Agodon (she/her) is a bi/queer poet and editor whose newest poetry book is Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press) was named a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays & […]

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Deborah Woodard

August 10, 2023

Deborah Woodard’s books include Plato’s Bad Horse (Bear Star, 2006), Borrowed Tales (Stockport Flats, 2012) and No Finis: Triangle Testimonies, 1911 (Ravenna Press, 2018). She has translated Amelia Rosselli’s poetry in Hospital Series (New Directions, 2015), Obtuse Diary (Entre Rios Books, 2018) and The Dragonfly (Entre Rios Books, 2023). 2024 Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series: […]

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Kevin Miller

August 10, 2023

Kevin Miller taught in the public schools of Washington State for thirty-nine years. He taught in Blaine, Gig Harbor, and Olympia, Washington. In 1990-1991 Miller was a Fulbright Exchange teacher at Grenå Handelsskole, Grenå, Denmark. After retirement, he was a volunteer teacher for a year at St. Patrick’s School in Tacoma, Washington. Miller lives in […]

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Laura McKee

August 10, 2023

Laura McKee received a BA from the University of Utah and an MFA from the University of Washington. Her first collection, Uttermost Paradise Place, was selected by Claudia Keelan for the 2009 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. See You Soon was published through the University of Arkansas Press as a finalist for the Miller Williams Prize. […]

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Don Mee Choi

August 10, 2023

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of DMZ Colony, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her other publications include Hardly War, The Morning News Is Exciting, and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received numerous fellowships and prizes: 2011 Whiting Award, 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2012 & […]

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Laynie Brown

August 10, 2023

Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, teacher and editor. She is author of fourteen collections of poems and four books of fiction. Recent publications include Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022) a book of poems, In Garments Worn by Lindens; a novel, Periodic Companions; and a book of short fiction, The Book […]

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