Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Elwin L. Wirkala grew up in Naselle, Washington, where he developed an early passion for poetry inspired by Henley’s Invictus and his parents’ readings of the Bible. While studying English

Alexa Brahme is an author based in Brooklyn, NY. She studied creative writing at Vanderbilt University and received her MFA in Fiction from The New School. Her short fiction has

By day, Kyle Robinson is a Senior Software Quality Engineer at Adobe, hunting bugs with the precision of a master duelist. By night, he trades the keyboard for a sword

Daniel works in tech by day and loves to build mechanical keyboards and go to local keyboard meetups. He's also a musician, rapper and saxophone player who loves his wife,

Amy is a hairstylist/toddler mom by day and musician/streamer by night. She is the co-founder of the first Vietnamese twitch team creating a space for gamers to also bond over

Mary Ellen Talley’s poems have appeared in many journals including Louisville Review, Deep Wild, and Trampoline as well as in multiple anthologies. Her chapbooks are: “Postcards from the Lilac City”

Michael Spence served a hitch as a naval officer aboard an aircraft carrier then drove public-transit buses in the Seattle area for thirty years, retiring from the latter job on

Michael Grodesky is a poet and photographer whose second chapbook, Absence On Water, was recently released by Bottlecap Press. His poems have also appeared Cathexis Northwest, BlazeVOX, Stepping Stones and

Katherine Grace Bond is a poet, novelist, and developmental editor whose work explores family, history, and the rifts in our culture and ourselves. She is the author of seven books,