Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Simon Wolf has his MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell. His work has been published with Leveler Poetry, featured in 'Coastal Poets – A

Dana Levin’s fifth book is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), a Lannan Literary Selection. Recent books include Banana Palace (2016) and Sky Burial (2011), which The New Yorker called “utterly her

Aisha is the author of The Fluency of Light (University of Iowa Press 2013) and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit (1913 Press 2017), Borealis (Coffee House 2021) and a collaborative book written with her father, Captioning

Lilly Dancyger is the author of Negative Space (2021), a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn

Maple Valley-raised singer/songwriter Zan Fiskum uses her haunting and beautifully controlled singing to craft ethereal and brooding folk/pop songs.  Being raised in a family that is deeply connected to music

Phong Nguyen is the author of three novels (Bronze Drum, Roundabout, and The Adventures of Joe Harper) and two short fiction collections (Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History, and

Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021). Her other titles from the U of Pittsburgh Press include Scald (2017); Blowout (2013, a finalist for the National Book

LAURA WARRELL is a contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop, and is a graduate of the creative writing program at Vermont College of Fine

Monica West is the author of Revival Season, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Barnes and Noble Discover selection, and short listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She