Clare Johnson is a dyke-identified writer + visual artist, with honors including fellowships from Jack Straw and Mineral School; residencies at Surel’s Place, Crosstown Arts and Vashon Artist Residency; and
Angela Langer is originally from Colorado but has lived in Seattle for almost 18 years. She is a performer, theatre student, lawyer, lover of comedy, and proud dog parent of Frank
Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, and New York Times Bestselling author of 36 books, including SWING, BECOMING MUHAMMAD ALI, co-authored with James Patterson, REBOUND, which was shortlisted for prestigious UK
Khadijah Queen is the author of six books of poetry and hybrid prose, most recently Anodyne (Tin House 2020), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society
MAYA SONENBERG’s story collection Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters received the 2022 Sullivan Prize in short fiction and was published in August 2022. Previous books and chapbooks include Cartographies (winner of
Valentine Wulf is a seventeen-year-old artist, writer, and puppeteer whose work combines the pastel kitsch of Americana with the comically macabre.
Hailey Spencer is, in the words of her wife Elizabeth, an absolute cloud of a girl. She is the author of the poetry collection Stories for When the Wolves Arrive.
RACHAEL MARIE WALKER (she/they) is a Seattle-based writer who fell in love with words, music, and their collisions in the weeds of Virginia. Rachael enjoys writing poetry and prose about
JARED JONES is a recipient of the University of West Georgia’s Kay Magenheimer Poetry Prize and an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Washington in Seattle. He
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