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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John Mifsud was born on the Mediterranean Island of Malta. He is published in several anthologies by and about men including, New Men, New Minds: Breaking Male Tradition by Crossing Press and Boyhood: Growing Up Male – A Multicultural Anthology by University of Wisconsin Press. John also scripts and directs original, autobiographical theatre with at-risk […]
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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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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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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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Samantha Storey was born in New York and raised in London, England. She has lived in Seattle since 1995 and works for a literary arts organization. Samantha started writing on her eighth birthday when she received a diary covered with glittered hearts and filled with rainbow-colored paper. (Being a child of the ’70s she had […]
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