John Sangster is a native of Seattle, now living on Lopez Island. His poems have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies. “I write to find out what’s inside. The trigger can be anything – an observation, something I overhear, a question that comes to mind. When it works, I’m sometimes startled by what appears […]
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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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Claudia Mauro is a poet, science writer, and the founding director of the nonprofit literary publisher, Whit Press. She is the recipient of two Seattle Arts Commission CityArtist Grants, and a Wyoming Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. She is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle, PENAmerica, and The Council of […]
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Rebecca Loudon is a writer, violinist, and teacher. She is on the editorial board of the literary journal Literary Salt. Rebecca’s work has recently been published in Crab Orchard Review, The Portland Review, Pacific Review, and Pontoon 5, among other print and online journals. Rebecca was a winner of the 2000 Richard Hugo House writing […]
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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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Gregory Hischak’s short plays Hygiene and Poor Shem have been produced as part of Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Apprentice/Intern Tens program and both were restaged as part of the Humana Festival of New American Plays (2010 and 2014, respectively). His full-length play, The Center of Gravity, won the 2009 Clauder Prize and premiered at Portland […]
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Laura Gamache reads, writes and teaches poetry. She has published work in journals, anthologies, on buses, on radio, in chapbooks, and on-line. She teaches through Seattle Arts & Lectures Writers in the Schools and other programs. She received an MFA from the University of Washington in 1993, and hasn’t written fiction since. 2002 Writers Program […]
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Matt Briggs was born in Seattle at the University of Washington Hospital and raised in the Snoqualmie Valley. His first book, The Remains of River Names, was published by Black Heron Press in 1999 and he has two new books of fiction coming out in the next year or so. StringTown Press will publish a […]
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Cody Walker lives in Seattle, where he teaches English at the University of Washington and poetry at Washington Middle School. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, The Cream City Review, The Madison Review, The Cortland Review, and Poetry Motel. He received an MFA degree from the University of Arkansas, and he served […]
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Ron Starr lives and writes in Seattle. He is an editor at Floating Bridge Press. His poems have appeared in Crab Creek Review, WordWrights, StringTown, Chrysanthemum, and other journals. His work also appeared in the Northwest Concrete and Visual Poetry Exhibition 2002. His current interests include prose poems and procedural methods of writing. 2003 Writers […]
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