The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture awarded fourth-generation Seattleite Janée J. Baugher a 2024-2025 CityArtist grant to complete her illness memoir. For her third full-length poetry collection, The Andrew
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Miranda Schmidt
Isabel Kim
Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American speculative fiction writer based in New York City. She is a Nebula Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and BSFA Award recipient, as well as a Hugo, Locus, Sturgeon,
Tim Chawaga
Tim Chawaga writes speculative fiction and plays. His short fiction has been featured in Interzone and Escape Pod and his work has been performed in New York and Philadelphia at
Marc Palm
Marc J Palm facilitates the anthology DUNE mini comics that happens monthly at Hugo House. A freelance illustrator for magazines like MAD, Metrograph, and Public Display.Art, Marc was the head organizer and publisher
Caitlin Andrews
Melika Bokaie
Melika Bokaie was born in December 1997 in Tehran. She studied dramatic arts and has spent several years teaching English to children. Passionate about travel, performance, and storytelling, Melika has
Laura Da
Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and The Institute of American Indian Arts.
Anastacia Renee
Anastacia-Reneé (She/They) is a queer writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, speaker and podcaster. She is the author of (v.) (Black Ocean) and Forget It (Black Radish) and, Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere and Sidenotes from the Archivist, forthcoming from