Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Camellia Han Freeman is a Seattle-based writer and community educator. Past honors include notable mention in Best American Essays, Image’s Milton Postgraduate Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and

Joel Heng Hartse teaches writing at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His books include Dancing about Architecture is a Reasonable Thing to Do (2022), and TL;DR: A Very Brief

Nat Oleander Smith studied playwriting at Amherst College and completed their MFA at Ohio University. They are the recipient of the Denis Johnston Playwriting Prize, and have taught fiction and

Maggie Mertens is a writer, journalist, and editor in Seattle. Her essays and reporting have appeared in numerous national publications. Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About