Comedian and journalist Lee Nacozy grew up in Austin amid her big Lebanese family. She then moved west until arriving in Seattle in 2010. She is a studied improviser and storyteller who loves to teach social-justice improv. She has most recently worked as an editor for Prison Journalism Project and for Real Change and as […]
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Veile is a Filipino content creator born and raised along Puget Sound. The podcast they’re starting through Jack Straw’s Artist Assistance award was inspired by the fact that you don’t have to do ‘big things’ or be a local celebrity to be interesting or worthy of celebration. The things we do for each other are […]
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Stacey Levine is the author of five books of uniquely original voice-driven fiction. Her novel MICE 1961, a comic-dramatic exploration of two sisters’ relationship and set during the Cold War, will be published by in 2024. Levine’s short fiction collection THE GIRL WITH BROWN FUR, longlisted for The Story Prize, was also shortlisted for the Washington State […]
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For the 1996 Jack Straw Artist Support Program, musician Joseph Zajonc and poet/storyteller Janet Wallace collaborated on the project Noseman: A Twin Absorbed, a narrative about a man with a cauliflower nose, which is actually his undeveloped twin from the womb. “The initial situation is that his twin is directly between him and the world, […]
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Barrett Golding makes radio and web work. He is Fearless Leader of the Peabody Award-winning pubradio series Hearing Voices from NPR, a Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, and a United States Artists Rasmuson Fellow in Media. He was General Manager of KGLT-Bozeman and an NPR Audio Engineer in DC. Other accolades include: the NFCB Silver Reel, the Scripps Howard Award for Journalism Excellence, the ABA […]
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Susan Starbuck is emeritus at Antioch University, Seattle, where she taught literature, history, and writing in education. She is the author of Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment (2002), a biography of an early Seattle activist who embraced a wide variety of social, political, and environmental causes. Artist Support Program 2002: Radio documentary on the life […]
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Artist Support Program 2003: Writer and Producer Martin Bucher worked with storytellers who have various disabilities to create a radio theater program to share the experiences and thoughts of these fascinating storytellers who rarely have an opportunity to be heard.
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Brian Goedde is an assistant professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia. A graduate of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, he has written personal essays for The New York Times, The Seattle Review, and Full Grown People (The Other Awkward Age), among other publications. Artist Support Program 2003: Record and produce […]
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A 4th generation Chinese American artist, Cheryll Leo-Gwin was born in Canada during the US Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943) and Canada’s Chinese Exclusion Act (1923-1947) when Chinese were forbidden immigration in both countries. Her Chinese American father and Chinese Canadian mother married in 1939 and laws of their lands forced them to live apart in […]
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Brigid Kelly is a documentarian and artist from the Midwest. Her wanderings through rural and urban America spawn projects that explore missing histories and the contributions of overlooked activists, artists, and everyday people. Her work has appeared on NPR’s Code Switch, KCRW’s All Things Considered, PBS, and other networks. Presence, a documentary-based collaborative work, appeared in the Crossing The Line […]
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