Abie Ekenezar (Va/Them) is an actress, singer, screenwriter and director living in Seattle, WA with an extensive background resume and has been in the entertainment industry professionally with IMDB credits
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Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah (He/Him) has spent the last four decades on and around stages all over the Pacific Northwest, doing everything from writing, producing, and performing in original fantasy rock operas, swinging
Douglas Bailey
Douglas the Beerbarian (He/Him) is an axe throwing, mead slinging, and dice rolling viking, cowboy, and adventurer with a 26-year career in the alcohol beverage industry. He's wrangled horses in
William Carty
Bill Carty is the author of Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books, 2019), which was long-listed for The Believer Book Award, and We Sailed on the Lake, published by Bunny Presse/Fonograf Editions
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Francesca Penchant
Francesca Penchant (she/her) is a designer, writer, and publisher who teaches editing at the University of Washington. She has an MFA with a concentration in book arts and creates books
Rhea Melina
Rhea Melina (she/her) is a multi-ethnic poet, birth-worker, parent, herbalist, educator, and hopeful romantic. Her chapbooks include a place to put things (Bottlecap Press, 2023), Not My Wasteland (Bone Machine,
Michael Keen
Michael Keen (he/him) has an MFA from Syracuse University and an MSW from Columbia University. His first novel, Notes from the Trauma Party, was published by Tailwinds Press in 2023.
Dario Cvencek
Dario Cvencek (he/him) is an immigrant poet from the Balkans. He started writing poetry in high school, inspired by his growing up during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, and
William Murray
Irish-American writer William Murray was born during the 1962 Century 21 Exposition—a Seattle World’s Fair baby. He is obsessed with the histories of Ireland and Seattle, and the place in