Charlie Burks (1946-2018) was a Seattle poet; author of the play Marvin, the Nephew of God and the book/CD Since the Ace; coordinated Western Edge, a writers publication put out by Arts Resource Services; and was a regular at Red Sky Poetry Theater. Artist Support Program 2000: Since the Ace
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Sasa Mlakar is a singer, composer, poet and movement artist whose work seeks to explore the relationship between those disciplines. Artist Support Program 2001
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Richard Gibbons (1932-2023) was a fiction and non fiction writer and storyteller based in Seattle. He edited for newspapers and magazines, wrote articles for The New Republic and Washington Magazine, and co-wrote and illustrated a volume of folk tales called Tejocote published by Mexico’s Editorial Novaro. Dick also wrote stories for Ellery Queen and songs […]
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Award-winning Nigerian writer, visual artist, performance poet, public speaker, filmmaker, and actor Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde (1968-2013) was a self-taught artist versed in several disciplines including visual arts, theater, and writing. She wrote an award winning play entitled The Woman with a Past, and a book of poetry titled Conversations with the Soul at 3:00AM. She performed […]
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George R. Wolfe is the founder of both The LaLa Times, dubbed “The Onion for L.A.,” and LA River Expeditions, a group that advocates for endangered rivers. His activist work has been featured in The New York Times, PBS, BBC, and in the documentary Rock the Boat: Saving America’s Wildest River. Wolfe’s first novel, Blake’s […]
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Kate Miller’s work has been published many places, including the anthology The Persistent Desire (Alyson) and on Seattle Metro buses. She sells books at Red and Black Books and is a former resident of Hedgebrook cottages. 1997 Writers Program
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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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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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