Alma Johnson’s work has been published in The Seattle Review, where it was a runner-up for the Nelson Bentley Award in 1994, and, in German, in Padagogische Rundschau. She has performed at the Writers in Performance Series sponsored by the Seattle Writers Association and received a 1997 Artist Grant from Seattle Arts Commission. 1997 Writers […]
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Lauri Conner is a Cave Canem fellow whose poems have appeared in Sou’wester, Seattle Review, and other journals and anthologies, including The Ringing Ear. She holds a PhD and an MFA from the University of Washington and has taught at Cornish College of the Arts, Antioch University, Seattle Academy, and Seattle Central College. She is the […]
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Paul Hunter is the author of several poetry collections, including Stubble Field (Silverfish Review Press, 2012), Ripening (Silverfish Review Press, 2006), and Breaking Ground (Silverfish Review Press, 2005), which received the 2005 Washington State Book Award. Of his work, Washington state poet laureate Samuel Green writes, “Wise and generous, when there’s labor to be done, […]
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Amy Halloran’s work has appeared in The Stranger, Women’s Work, and BUST. One of her non-books was included in an exhibit she co-curated, This Is Not a Book at Summer Song Gallery. 1997 Writers Program
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Noel Franklin’s poetry appears in Rain City Review, Son of Slam!, and two self-published chapbooks, Gone Girl and Theo. She has read at numerous events including the Poetry Slam Nationals, the Jesse Bernstein Memorial Reading, and Home Alive benefits, and continues to read in lots of local series. She is also an organizer of the […]
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Joan Fiset’s work has been widely published in periodicals including Poetry Northwest, The Seattle Review, Calyx, Ploughshares, Negative Capability, and The Crab Creek Review. Namesake, a book of prose vignettes about her mother who suffered from mental illness, was released from Blue Begonia Press in 2015. Now the Day Is Over, a book of prose […]
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Tracie Hall is Executive Director of the American Library Association. She previously served as Director, Culture Program at Chicago’s Joyce Foundation. As Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) for the City of Chicago where she oversaw the Arts and Creative Industries Division which included the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, […]
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From the 1998 Jack Straw Writers Anthology: “I was born on the island of Antigua, in the British West Indies. My family then immigrated to the United States twenty years ago. I have since lived in four states, making my home currently in Seattle, for the past three years. As a resident of the Belltown […]
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Trisha Ready is a writer and a psychologist. She wrote essays for twenty years for Seattle’s alternative newspaper— The Stranger. Her writing focuses on mental health and music. 1998 Writers Program
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