Bill Carty is the author of Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books, 2019), which was long-listed for The Believer Book Award, and We Sailed on the Lake, published by Bunny Presse/Fonograf Editions
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Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, including Damascus, which The New York Times called "Beat-poet cool." Heās also written Fight Song and Some Things that Meant the World
Lauren Camp
Lauren Camp is the author of five books, recently Took House (Tupelo Press). Honors include the Dorset Prize and finalist for the Arab American Book Award. Her poems appear in
Phillip B. Williams
āWilliams demonstrates an astounding technical mastery of poetic forms that goes far beyond form for formās sake, as he repeats, reconfigures, and recontextualizes words and phrases in order to create
Elsa Sjunneson
Elsa Sjunneson is a Deafblind author and editor living in Seattle, Washington. Her fiction and nonfiction writing has been praised as "eloquence and activism in lockstep" and has been published
Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg is the author of seven books of fiction, including:Ā Instant Love,Ā The Kept Man,Ā The Melting Season,Ā The Middlesteins,Ā Saint Mazie, andĀ All Grown Up.Ā Her most recent novel isĀ All This Could Be YoursĀ (2019), which
Samar Abulhassan
Samar Abulhassan is a Jack Straw Writer and holds an M.F.A. from Colorado State University. Born to Lebanese immigrants and raised with multiple languages, she is a 2006 Hedgebrook alum
Sanjukta Shams
Shama Shams (Sanjukta) (is an author who lives in Dallas and Seattle. She plans to fully relocate to Seattle in May 2022 after her daughter graduates from High School. She
Shankar Narayan
Shankar Narayan explores identity, power, mythology, and technology in a world where the body is flung across borders yet possesses unrivaled power to transcend them. Shankar is a five-time Pushcart
Shobha Rao
Shobha Rao is the author of the short story collection An Unrestored Woman, and the novel Girls Burn Brighter. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in