Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Kari Tai is founder of the artistic collective Home Ground. Her poetry and dancing inform the group’s artistic response. Kari grew up in Kalispell, Montana in a unique octagon house

Balin Lusby is a magician, a maker, an author, a poet, an engineer, an artist, a fencer, an archer, and a two-time brain tumor survivor. His award-winning magic seeks to

Darren Nordlie is the 2022 1st place winner in Poetry for EPIC Group Writers, published in two anthologies curated by two different Washington State Poet Laureates, Wordswell, Ghost Mic Poetry

Rachel Sobel is a writer of speculative and literary fiction about dykes and other queer people. She is the founding editor of boutique small press Homeward Books, and has an MFA

SIDNEY ROGERS is a queer and trans writer from Seattle, Washington. He is a Linguistics and Creative Writing undergraduate student at the University of Washington, and the president of the

JUSTINE CHAN is a writer and singer-songwriter from Chicago. Her debut poetry book, Should You Lose All Reason(s), is forthcoming from Chin Music Press in April 2023. Her work has

SANJANA RAMESH is from everywhere and nowhere, although most recently Ann Arbor, Michigan and Chennai in India. Their work has appeared in Café Shapiro, The Dragon Poet Review and Bring

SIMON GRAHAM is an MFA Candidate in Prose at the University of Washington. Their stories and essays have appeared in New York Tyrant, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Bull Magazine, X-R-A-Y, Hobart,