With details from her well-kept travel journals, Kaia Chessen takes readers through Africa in a genuine account of her journey.
Chessen is a writer and cellist living in Seattle, Washington. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, where she was nominated for an Associated Writing Programs Intro Awards in 2005 and co-authored the short story “Getting Undressed” with novelist Shawn Wong in 2007.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Stacey Bennetts shares stories from her extraordinary childhood in her memoir about family drug smuggling. While the circumstances are unusual, aspects of the family dynamic and relationships are universal.
Bennetts is a mother, a writer, and a criminal defense attorney in Seattle, Washington. She married her Hastings College of the Law classmate – and landlord during her house arrest stint – Dennis Carroll. Stacey is editing her 330 page unpublished memoir, Trial By Error: Confessions of an Eight-Year-Old Drug Smuggler, while a student of the 2012 EDGE Professional Development Program for Writers and the Jack Straw Writers Program.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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With sensitivity and courage, Lacey Jane Henson shares the shifting emotion in a mother-daughter relationship.
Henson grew up in Illinois, and spent a few years in New Mexico before landing in Seattle. She earned an MFA from the University of Washington in 2006 and currently organizes a popular local reading series called “The Off Hours.” In 2009, she won first-prize in the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction given by Nimrod International. Her stories have appeared in Nimrod, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, Vestal Review, Third Coast, and other literary journals.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Carol Light blends traditional forms to create innovative, distinctive verse.
Light’s poems have appeared in Narrative Magazine, American Life in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Literary Bohemian, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She was awarded GAP funding from Artist Trust in 2011. She is a graduate of the University of Washington MFA program in poetry and an adjunct faculty 70 Jack Straw Writers Anthology member at Olympic College. She lives with her family in Port Townsend, Washington.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Mitsu Sundvall takes you back to San Francisco in 1953 where multi-generations of a Japanese family play out their roles. Backstage at a nightclub, readers take in the atmosphere in a cultural context.
Sundvall is a writer from Berkeley, New York City, and Seattle. She has been a Harper & Row editor, an Artist Trust and Seattle Arts Commission awardee, and a Seattle Times book reviewer, and is a Hedgebrook and Edge programs alumna.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
THIS PODCAST CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE.
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Johanna Stoberock often looks to physical forms to guide her writing. Stories emerge from the landscape and fill pages with vivid sensory description and poignant scenes.
Stoberock’s novel, City of Ghosts, was published by W.W. Norton. Her essays, reviews, and short fiction have appeared in The Wilson Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Eclipse, The Seattle Times, and numerous other publications. She has been awarded residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Millay Colony. She lives in Walla Walla, where she teaches at Whitman College.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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As a writer and traveler, Nick Wong contemplates the world of boxing and the common ground shared by every fighter. During his time in other countries, he could always find a safe place in the gym and his writing shares the culture of the sport with many who will never enter a ring.
Wong is a writer and photographer who explores culture through the art of boxing. A Mary Gates Scholar, a Bonderman Fellow, and a VONA alum, he served as the assistant editor at the International Examiner from 2009-2010 and now freelances for online boxing websites. He is currently writing his first book about his journey through the boxing gyms of Latin America (www.thewanderingpugilist.com), and working towards his dream of building boxing gyms around the world.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Sharon Hashimoto captures her father’s voice in her new work, Eh, Bruddah. It’s a touching, humor-infused story of family told with a cultural bent.
Hashimoto teaches at Highline Community College. Her fiction has appeared in Bamboo Ridge, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Shenandoah, Tampa Review, and others. Her poetry collection, The Crane Wife, was co-winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press in 2003.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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Sally Neumann presents colorful, touching portraits of her kin. Humorous banter and raw descriptions are cleverly knit together in this piece.
Neumann, currently a proud resident of Seattle, is finishing her Bachelor’s degree in English and Psychology at the University of Washington. She’s fascinated by people, emotions, cults, the occult, relationships, and all the complexities they engender. Though she’ll never be able to understand any of them fully, there’s nothing she loves more than to unpack and explore.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
THIS PODCAST CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE.
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Claudia Rowe documents her four-year correspondence with a serial murderer in her manuscript, Prey. The poignant narrative expresses true vulnerability and depth of emotion.
Rowe is a journalist, essayist, and writer of creative
nonfiction. For seven years she was a regular contributor to The New York Times and several national magazines. In 2003, after a residency at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, she flew back to New York, packed up her car and hit the road for Seattle, where for six years she covered social issues at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. To blow off steam, she practices drumming to Led Zeppelin.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Productions as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Rachel Matthews and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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With details from her well-kept travel journals, Kaia Chessen takes readers through Africa in a genuine account of her journey.
