Hillary Behrman’s award winning short stories have been described as deeply humane and unsettling and have been published in journals, magazines, short story dispensers and an anthology. Lake Effect, her debut collection of stories was chosen by Lauren Groff as the winner of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction and will be published […]
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Mia Tong is a writer of YA, AAPI, and immigrant fiction. Her debut novel is part of a duology that is inspired by her East Asian heritage, her interests in pan-Asian philosophies and mythologies, and the visual and cultural art of Asia. Her stories appear in The South Shore Review, Bright Flash Literary Review, The Weather Where You […]
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Amontaine Aurore is a storyteller, playwright, actor, director, producer, and performance artist. She is committed to presenting stories that illuminate multiple perspectives and deepen the understanding of human complexities. Amontaine’s plays have been produced in Seattle, New York, Maryland, and abroad. Her solo play, Free Desiree, was named one of the Best New Plays of […]
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McKenna Princing (she/her) writes speculative fiction set in and inspired by the Pacific Northwest and Cascadia bioregion. She loves to stitch genres like fantasy, science fiction, and horror together and bring these hideous progeny to life in order to explore real-world themes of social justice, queerness, mental illness, human-nature relationships, and the breakdown of the […]
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Gabriel Moseley is a writer from Seattle, Washington. He earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His short story, “A Man Stands Tall,” was awarded The Masters Review Anthology Prize in 2017, selected by Roxane Gay. He received the General Motors’ Future Fiction Scholarship to attend Aspen Summer Words in 2023. He […]
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Elyse Hauser is an environmental writer from the Seattle area who studied creative nonfiction at the University of New Orleans. As an essayist, journalist, and speculative fiction author, she focuses on aquatic ecosystems, especially the deep sea and protecting the unknown. Elyse’s writing blends research and storytelling to explore human connections to underwater worlds. Her […]
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Becca Rose Hall (she/her) writes novels, essays, and poems. She studied English at Stanford and holds a Master’s in Environmental Writing from the University of Montana. Her writing has been supported by Art Omi, Zvona i Nari, and Community of Writers, and she has attended Bread Loaf and Sewanee. She was also the Writers’ Lighthouse […]
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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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Stacey Levine is the author of five books of uniquely original voice-driven fiction. Her novel MICE 1961, a comic-dramatic exploration of two sisters’ relationship and set during the Cold War, will be published by in 2024. Levine’s short fiction collection THE GIRL WITH BROWN FUR, longlisted for The Story Prize, was also shortlisted for the Washington State […]
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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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