Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Nanya Jhingran is a poet, scholar and teacher from Lucknow, India currently living by the coastal margin of the Salish Sea, on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish People

J.D. Finnegan is a queer writer from Pennsylvania. They mainly write prose, and they most enjoy writing on an informal and interpersonal level about people and places that are extraordinary

Niccolo Bechtler (he/him) is a poet from central New Jersey. He currently studies in the MFA program at the University of Washington, Seattle (on unceded Coast Salish lands), where he

Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the National Bestselling novel, How High We Go in the Dark (2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the story collection, Where We

Darina (Dasha) Sikmashvili was born in Lubny, Ukraine, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan and has been working in

Peter Temes is a writer, teacher and business advisor living in Seattle. He has taught writing, literature, and ethics at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and is an advisor to the

Twenty-one year old Somtochukwu is a theatre educator and performer from Nigeria and Florida. She's excited to share this production with you as it is her debut performance in the

DuWayne Andrews Jr., a Seattle native, joins the cast of THE KINGS GO SOUTH as Martin Luther King Jr., following extensive work on stage and as a chorus leader –