Nancy Mburu is an author and performing poet. Her writing amplifies the experiences and stories of East African immigrants in an authentic way that also encompasses black diasporans’ complex relationship with culture, tradition, language, gender dynamics, and race. Her style involves uplifting her culture by incorporating her native language Swahili and rooting her stories in […]
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A Seattle native, Dave grew up in a working-class family in White Center. He graduated from Evergreen High School and the University of Washington, where he began his newspaper career at the UW Daily. He worked as a reporter at papers in Central Washington, and later as a copy editor at Bellevue’s Eastside Journal (now […]
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Hana Choi is a first-generation immigrant writer from South Korea. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Epoch, Mississippi Review, and CRAFT Literary, and has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her short stories have been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and […]
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Sumu (Su) Tasib is a genderqueer author and scientist living in Seattle, Washington. They have been writing for four decades and publishing scientific articles for three. Su sees writing as a path to social as well as scientific change; their stories are meant to expand perspectives while they entertain. Their debut book, A Boy Named […]
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Geri Gale (she/her) writes and draws at night and on the weekends. Her award-winning books include In the Closet: A Triad (American Fiction Award, LGBTQ+ Fiction Finalist; IAN Book of the Year, LGBTQ+ Fiction Finalist; A Notable 100 Book in the 2022 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book; Foreword Indies Book Award, LGBTQ+ Fiction Finalist); Patrice: […]
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Eric G. Parsons is a poet and writer of fiction. His poetry has appeared in Shots and Arnazella. He is the founder of a poetry group for Black men called I Am The Darker Brother. Collaborating with photographer Anne Keeney, Parsons co-created Black Voices: speaking—images and words of the lives of Blackpeople. The exhibit has […]
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Doug, originally from Colorado, is currently in the creative writing program at the University of Washington. His stories and essays have appeared in Other Voices, Weber Studies, War Literature and the Arts, Powder Magazine, Reed Magazine, and the Beloit Fiction Journal. 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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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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Erin Leonard resides in Portland, Oregon with her husband, her two children, two dogs, two cats, two birds, in a house on a hill built on a double-city lot with a large sloping garden and her fictional twisting sentences that she has been working on for the last ten years in and out of workshop […]
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