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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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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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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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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Martha Kreiner holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Michigan State University. Her work has appeared in Floating Bridge Review, ILK journal, and Hubbub. With her beloved partner Amy, she is writing a dystopian tween novella they hope to publish one day, under a name no one will recognize. 2015 Writers Program
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Clare Johnson is a writer and visual artist, published in Blithe House Quarterly, quiet Shorts, Frogmore Papers, 14 Magazine, Lumina, and Cranky. Solo exhibitions include Oxford’s North Wall, Bridport Arts Centre, Hugo House, Storefronts Seattle, and London’s Guy’s Hospital. She is a Michael S. Harper Poetry Prize recipient, and her ongoing Post-it Note Project (drawing […]
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Laura Da’ is a poet and public school teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and The Institute of American Indian Arts. Da’ is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Her first chapbook, The Tecumseh Motel, was published in Effigies II. […]
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Emily Bedard grew up in Salt Lake City, got an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana, and now lives in Seattle. She teaches for the Henry Art Gallery, the Hugo House, and Seattle Art & Lectures, through which she currently serves as the resident poet for the Roosevelt High School Roughriders. Her poems […]
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Linda Andrews’s poetry and stories have been featured in numerous journals and reviews including Calyx, Nimrod, Spindrift, Poetry Northwest, Crab Creek Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, CutBank, Willow Springs, Midwest Quarterly, Gadfly, and Seattle Review. A book of her poems, Escape of the Bird Women, was published by Blue Begonia Press and received a Washington State […]
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