Sonia Gomez is an American born Sri Lankan, who was raised in Kenya and Zimbabwe. She received an MFA from the University of Washington and has taught at that institution, and at local community colleges. She has also worked at Seattle Arts and Lectures and Richard Hugo House. Gomez has received grants from Artist Trust […]
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From the 1998 Jack Straw Writers Anthology: “I graduated with a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Washington and now freelance for Allure magazine and do a little writing for The Stranger. I’m currently teaching English and creative writing at an alternative high school in Long Beach, Washington and working on my second […]
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The poet Jamal Gabobe has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. The Path of Difference is his third poetry book. He has published another book of poetry titled Love and Memory and an Arabic poetry book called Qalb La Yanam. Jamal’s travel essay Termites and Clans was included in the anthology […]
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From the 1998 Jack Straw Writers Anthology: “I have spent most of my life in Los Angeles where I got my emotional passport. Now I can go anywhere. Now I live in Seattle. I have self-published four poetry books. Presently I’m working on a new book to be named later (I don’t want to ruin […]
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Susan Martinez is a native of Seattle, and is currently a student in the University of Washington Creative Writing Program. Susan is a poet, and also the co-owner of a Pike Place Market jewelry business. 2000 Writers Program
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Diane Westergaard’s poems have appeared in The Written Arts, Bellingham Review, Three Rivers Poetry Review, Cape Rock, Fine Madness, Kansas Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Talus and Scree, Point No Point, and Crab Creek Review. With guitarist Garylee Johnson, she co-produced and co-wrote Ghost in the Garden, a chapbook and audiotape of poetry, music and song. 1999 […]
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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 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 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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