Mercedes Lawry’s most recent book is Vestiges from Kelsay Books. She’s published three chapbooks and poems in journals such as Nimrod and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her book Small Measures is forthcoming from ELJ Editions, Ltd. in 2024. She’s also published short fiction and stories and poems for children. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series: “I […]
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Ann Hursey’s first poem, Wetland, rode the bus in 1997. Today, as a Writing the Land poet, she speaks for oak prairies, salt marshes, and riparian restoration. Her poems celebrate the resilience of our planet’s diversity during climate change. Her work appears online and in print journals as well as anthologies. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni […]
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Poet, performer, educator, literary activist. MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. In 1996, co-founded the Northwest SPokenword LAB (SPLAB), a non-profit literary arts center in Auburn, WA and acted as Executive Director until Fall of 1998. Currently Executive Director of Eleventh Hour Productions, non-profit producer of literary […]
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Mary Lou Sanelli has published seven collections of poetry and three works of non-fiction, Among Friends, Falling Awake, and A Woman Writing. The Star Struck Dance Studio of Yucca Springs (Chatwin Books) is her first novel. Her newest collection of essays, Every Little Thing, has been nominated for a PNBA: Pacific Northwest Book Award and […]
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Craig Williams is a writer, performer, and choreographer. He has been writing his entire life, beginning with poetry while still in elementary school on the South Side of Chicago. In college he studied English Literature, where he came to believe that story is very important. 2002 Writers Program
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Peggy Sturdivant writes short fiction and poetry. She has been the featured writer at the New Voices reading of the After Long Silence series. Over the last two years she has been involved in an oral history project interviewing first generation immigrants and now collected in Voices of Ballard. She is a member of an […]
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John Sangster is a native of Seattle, now living on Lopez Island. His poems have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies. “I write to find out what’s inside. The trigger can be anything – an observation, something I overhear, a question that comes to mind. When it works, I’m sometimes startled by what appears […]
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Arne Pihl lives in a large Northwestern city once famous the world over for fishing fleets, shipyards, and ripping off Alaskans, but it has since fallen into overgrown ruin: pavement, traffic, and gawkers thick as the blackberries once were. You’ve probably never even heard of the place. He’s been employed as a bartender, an agricultural […]
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Claudia Mauro is a poet, science writer, and the founding director of the nonprofit literary publisher, Whit Press. She is the recipient of two Seattle Arts Commission CityArtist Grants, and a Wyoming Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. She is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle, PENAmerica, and The Council of […]
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Rebecca Loudon is a writer, violinist, and teacher. She is on the editorial board of the literary journal Literary Salt. Rebecca’s work has recently been published in Crab Orchard Review, The Portland Review, Pacific Review, and Pontoon 5, among other print and online journals. Rebecca was a winner of the 2000 Richard Hugo House writing […]
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