Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Rita Wirkala is an award-winning Argentine writer and educator living in Seattle. After years of academic writing and teaching at the University of Washington, she now writes novels, short stories,

Matt Briggs is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. His essay "Falling and Always Falling: Twin Peaks and the Clear-Cut Landscape" appeared in Moss: Volume One. His short stories have

Shin Yu Pai is the author of several books of poetry, including Virga, ENSŌ, Sightings: Selected Works (2000-2005), Aux Arcs, Adamantine, and Equivalence. She served as the fourth poet laureate

Linera Lucas is the co-editor of When Home is Not Safe: Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional, and Physical Abuse, published by McFarland. Her poetry has appeared in The American Journal of

Susan Landgraf was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate award in 2020. Books include The Inspired Poet from Two Sylvias Press, What We Bury Changes the Ground, and Other Voices. More than 400 poems

Mary Ellen's poems have been published in over 100 journals and anthologies. Her poems have received three Pushcart nominations and her chapbook, Postcards from the Lilac City, was published by Finishing Line

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Hailed as “original, politically daring, and passionately written” by Vogue, her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree earned the silver

Liezel Moraleja Hackett (she/her) is a Filipino American writer and choreographer whose work often dwells in the space between dance and illness, culture and captivity. Liezel has an MFA in

Lavanya Vasudevan is an Indian-American writer living near Seattle, WA. Her stories appear in Ploughshares, Chicago Quarterly Review, Wigleaf, The Pinch Journal, and elsewhere. Her work has been selected for

Carla Crujido is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is the co-editor of the anthology Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays of