Doug Nufer is a specialist in literary constraints, a technique that applies certain conditions to or establishes a pattern within writing. Doug is the author of Negativeland (Autonomedia), Never Again (Four Walls Eight Windows/ Black Square), and On the Roast (Chiasmus), all of which came out in 2004, and of The Mudflat Man/ The River […]
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Howard W. Robertson is a poet and fiction writer from Eugene, Oregon. His poems have been published in many literary journals, including most recently in SLAB, Square Lake, The Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology, Hipfish, Nest, Literal Latte, Nimrod, Fireweed, and Ergo. A chapbook of his poems, to the fierce guard in the Assyrian Saloon, is […]
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Corrina Wycoff’s first fiction collection, O Street was published by University of Illinois Press in 2007. Her fiction and essays have also appeared in Other Voices, New Letters, Coal City Review, The Oregon Quarterly, Brainchild, Out of Line, Golden Handcuffs, and the anthologies Best Essays Northwest and The Clear Cut Future. She holds and MFA […]
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Kathryn Trueblood’s latest novel, The Baby Lottery, is published by The Permanent Press of New York. Her first book, The Sperm Donor’s Daughter, received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize 2000. Trueblood has co-edited two anthologies of multicultural literature, The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards with Ishmael Reed […]
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Angela Jane Fountas writes, teaches, and runs WriteHabit.org, a website in support of new and emerging writers. She is also a volunteer at 826 Seattle. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in elimae, The Bitter Oleander, Diagram, Monkeybicycle, Pindeldyboz, Redivider, and Sentence, among others. Her story Lydia was nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize. […]
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Larry Laurence was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a Navy family and grew up believing normal life meant pulling up roots and moving every two years. He began writing in his twenties, earning an M.A., English, studying poetry under Philip Levine and Peter Everwine. He worked 12 years as a construction laborer and warehouse worker […]
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Nancy Rawles has worked as a journalist, playwright, and novelist. The New York Times called her novel My Jim “as heart-wrenching a personal history as any recorded in American literature.” Nancy has received many awards for her writing, including an Alex Award from the American Library Association, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus […]
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Pamela Moore Dionne has published award-winning poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction in a number of publications, including Shenandoah, Pontoon, Snow Monkey, Vox Populi, Avatar Review, Author Magazine, and others. She founded the online art & literature journal Literary Salt, and served as its managing director. In 1998, Pam was awarded a Centrum residency and an […]
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Born October 21, 1923 in Netherlands, Alie Elisabeth Wiegersma Smaalders lived through the German occupation before becoming a librarian in Amsterdam. She traveled to the United States in 1952 on a Fulbright scholarship at Carnegie Mellon and later attended UCLA. She worked as a reference librarian, studied writing and translated stories from her native Frisian […]
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Elizabeth Austen is a Seattle-based poet, performer, teacher and radio commentator. She served as the Washington State poet laureate for 2014-16. She is the author of Every Dress a Decision (Blue Begonia Press, 2011) and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Goes Alone (Floating Bridge Press, 2010) and Where Currents Meet. Her poems have appeared online on […]
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