Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Francesca Penchant (she/her) is a designer, writer, and publisher who teaches editing at the University of Washington. She has an MFA with a concentration in book arts and creates books

Dario Cvencek (he/him) is an immigrant poet from the Balkans. He started writing poetry in high school, inspired by his growing up during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, and

Irish-American writer William Murray was born during the 1962 Century 21 Exposition—a Seattle World’s Fair baby. He is obsessed with the histories of Ireland and Seattle, and the place in

Jacqueline Leung is a writer and translator from Hong Kong. Her work has appeared in Wasafiri, Transtext(e)s Transcultures, Gulf Coast, Asymptote, Nashville Review, SAND Journal, the Asian Review of Books, Books From Taiwan, and elsewhere. She is a translator

Marguerite Harrold has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago. She is a member of the Community of Writers and an alum of the Bread

Seattle author Alle C. Hall's debut novel As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back has been honored sixteen times, most recently: finalist for The Nancy

Janine Kovac writes about power dynamics and women’s bodies. Since 2014 Janine has taught introductory and advanced classes in Scrivener for organizations such as The Writers Grotto in San Francisco,