Samar Abulhassan holds an M.F.A. from Colorado State University and has worked as a teaching artist for ten years, for Seattle Arts and Lectures’ WITS Program, Jack Straw, and the Skagit River Poetry Foundation. Born to Lebanese immigrants and raised with multiple languages, she is a 2006 Hedgebrook alum and the author of multiple chapbooks, […]
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Gregg Daniel Miller received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington in 2005. His research focus is on the philosophy of language, power, and aesthetics within the traditions of critical theory and liberalism (see: Mimesis and Reason, SUNY Press, 2011). He is also an improvising saxophone player. For his Jack Straw project, […]
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C. R. Grimmer (she/her/they/them) is a poet, scholar, and lecturer at the UW in Seattle with an MFA, MA, and PhC. They also the host The Poetry Vlog, a social justice YouTube channel and podcast, with its third season sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. The Poetry Vlog is dedicated to building queer and anti-racist coalitions […]
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The daughter of a Sicilian meat cutter and a cool blonde Norwegian beauty, Julie Cascioppo grew up in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood and attended Western Washington University. She originally intended to have a career as a teacher, but the call of the stage proved too strong. “I was on holiday [in the Caribbean] and a French […]
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Danny Barksdale was raised in the Appalachian Mountain foothills in the northeast corner of Alabama. After a rigorous 18-year-training in Sunday School at a small Southern Baptist church, he left home and earned a B.A. in literature from the University of Montevallo, which is located at the geographic center of Alabama. Subsequently, he left Alabama […]
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Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody award-winning writer and independent media and theatre artist who has written and produced more than 400 audio art pieces and documentaries for NPR and PRI programs. Her Peabody award-winning documentary “Mei Mei, a Daughter’s Song” is a harrowing account of her mother’s childhood in Taiwan during WWII. Her Crossing […]
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Kristen Millares Young is a prize-winning journalist and writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, City Arts Magazine, Pacifica Literary Review, KUOW 94.9-FM, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Miami Herald, and TIME Magazine. Kristen was the researcher for the NYT Pulitzer Prize-winning story Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, which […]
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A proud daughter of immigrants, Michelle Peñaloza was born in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and grew up in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee. She is author of landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015), and Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, which recently won the 2018 Hillary […]
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Raúl Sanchez is the former City of Redmond Poet Laureate 2019-2021. He teaches bilingual poetry. He runs the Poetry in the Park bi-weekly readings at Meadowbrook Pond in NE Seattle, as well as the neighborhood “Poetry Pole” in front of his house. His inaugural collection, All Our Brown-Skinned Angels, published by MoonPath Press, was nominated […]
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Margot Kahn is the author of the biography Horses That Buck (University of Oklahoma Press). The book won the High Plains Book Award and was named by New West a best book of 2008. She is also co-editor, along with Kelly McMasters, of the anthology This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press/Hachette). […]
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