Steve Rowland, radio producer and documentarian, uses music, theater and art as windows to explore issues in American history, society, race relations, creativity, and human possibility. He has won nearly every major award in broadcasting including two Peabody Awards, The Prix Italia, The CPB, & The Ohio State Award and was awarded a Pew Fellowship […]
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Madeline Crowley is an oral historian, writer, and visual artist who has worked on the People of the Central Area & their Stories, an Oral History, Photography and Audio Project since 2012. She is the Oral Historian for Seattle Public Library’s Jazz History of Seattle Project and for Shunpike.org’s Racial Equity Project. She currently teaches […]
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Phoebe Tsang is a British-Canadian poet, librettist, short story writer and violinist. Her multidisciplinary performance practice integrates composed and improvised music with original poetry. Tsang employs the ancient, divinatory system of the Marseille Tarot to structure her performances, much as John Cage employed the I Ching. The resulting work is a product of chance – […]
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Steve Peters makes music and audio for a variety of contexts and occasions using environmental sound, found/natural objects, electronics, instruments, and voices. Elements of improvisation and formal structure are combined to create place-based works that encourage a contemplative state of listening focused on subtle sonic details of the world around us. His work has been […]
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Jeanine Walker is the author of The Two of Them Might Outlast Me (GPP, 2022). She has received fellowships from Artist Trust, Jack Straw Cultural Center, and Wonju, UNESCO City of Literature. Her poems, essays, and translations have found homes in Poetry, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, HAD, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. 2024 Jack Straw Alumni Poetry […]
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Anca L. Szilágyi’s fiction has appeared in Gastronomica, Fairy Tale Review, Cicada, Monkeybicycle, and The Massachusetts Review, among others. Her nonfiction appears on the Ploughshares blog. She was awarded an inaugural Made at Hugo House fellowship for her story collection More Like Home Than Home and a 4Culture grant for her novel-in-progress, Paralegal. The Stranger recognized Anca […]
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Matthew Schnirman earned his MFA from the University of Arizona. Before Jack Straw, he was a 2013-2014 Made fellow at the Richard Hugo House. His poetry appears in fabulous journals like Phantom Limb, Whiskey Island and CutBank. 2015 Writers Program
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L. J. Morin (Lisa Carcia) has been making her way northward along the West Coast since she was born, migrating from San Diego to San Francisco to Seattle (with detours to Texas, Minnesota, and Japan along the way). Her recent credits include an honorable mention for the 2015 James Hearst Poetry Prize (North American Review), […]
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Ross McMeekin’s stories appear or are forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Redivider, PANK, and Tin House online. His nonfiction has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Green Mountains Review, and The Rumpus. He is a weekly columnist for the Ploughshares blog, where he reviews short stories. McMeekin holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of […]
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Erin Malone is the author of Site of Disappearance, finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Hover, as well as a chapbook, What Sound Does It Make. The recipient of grants from Washington’s Artist Trust, 4Culture, and the Colorado Council of the Arts, she’s taught writing at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Richard […]
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