Susan Martinez

September 7, 2023

Susan Martinez is a native of Seattle, and is currently a student in the University of Washington Creative Writing Program. Susan is a poet, and also the co-owner of a Pike Place Market jewelry business. 2000 Writers Program

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Ace Moore

August 11, 2023

Ace Moore was born in Thornburg, Iowa (population 100). He is an active volunteer with various programs at Richard Hugo House, and he is the writer of strange fables and prose poems which have appeared in a variety of literary journals. 2000 Writers Program

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Diane Westergaard

August 10, 2023

Diane Westergaard’s poems have appeared in The Written Arts, Bellingham Review, Three Rivers Poetry Review, Cape Rock, Fine Madness, Kansas Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Talus and Scree, Point No Point, and Crab Creek Review. With guitarist Garylee Johnson, she co-produced and co-wrote Ghost in the Garden, a chapbook and audiotape of poetry, music and song. 1999 […]

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Kathryn Owen

August 10, 2023

From the 1999 Jack Straw Writers Anthology: “I grew up in Seattle, graduated from the University of Washington, then traveled around the country for the next 12 years. During that time I worked as a machinist, foundry worker, and garment worker. Throughout those years I was active in the trade union movement, on issues ranging […]

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Lisa Michaels

August 10, 2023

Lisa Michaels is the author of Split: A Counterculture Childhood, selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in Glamour, Salon, and the New York Times Magazine. She has been a contributing editor at The Threepenny Review and […]

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Rebecca Meredith

August 10, 2023

Rebecca Meredith is a poet, writer, and psychotherapist, as well as a cofounder of the Redmond Association of SPokenword (RASP), who served as its coordinator and president for years. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, and performed in such venues as the Burning Word Poetry Festival, the Seattle Moon Viewing […]

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Becka Mara McKay

August 10, 2023

Becka Mara McKay is a poet, translator, and teacher. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington and an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa, where she also received a PhD in comparative literature. Her first book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, was published by […]

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David Halpern

August 10, 2023

David Halpern holds a BA in writing from the University of Washington and a Masters from Brown University. He competed on the US Olympic kayaking team in 1984, and in twelve national championships for flatwater kayaking. He makes his living as a cartoonist, and has won several national awards for his cartooning. Halpern also has […]

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Kent Chadwick

August 10, 2023

Kent Chadwick is a West Coast poet and writer who lives on Bainbridge Island. His poetry has been published in Left Bank, Sojourners, Fishtrap Anthology, 1995, and the anthology Deep Down Things: Poems of the Inland Pacific Northwest. In July 1993 he exhibited the fiction painting installation “I Am A Man” with his brother Gregg […]

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Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki

August 10, 2023

Betsy Aoki is a poet, short story writer, and game producer. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Asimov’s Magazine of Science Fiction, 580 Split, The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop), and anthologized in Climbing Lightly Through Forests (a Ursula K. Le Guin tribute poetry anthology). In 2021 she won the Auburn Witness […]

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