Hugo House teachers are at the core of our goal to help writers become better writers. Our teachers are writers; they are selected on the basis of their active engagement in the literary world as well as their love of teaching.
Teachers
Hugo House teachers are at the core of our goal to help writers become better writers. Our teachers are writers; they are selected on the basis of their active engagement in the literary world as well as their love of teaching.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Ukraine and currently lives in New Jersey. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic which was a finalist for the National Book Award and received the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Tim Keck is the co-founder of The Onion, Portland Mercury, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, The Stranger. He is currently working on a novel called "Balance Rock." He has told many people that it will be done soon.
Michael Keen (he/him) has an MFA from Syracuse University and an MSW from Columbia University. His first novel, Notes from the Trauma Party, was published by Tailwinds Press in 2023. He lives in Seattle with his dog, Desmond, and works as a hospice social worker. He is obsessed with karaoke.
In 1992, Megan Kelso was the first woman to receive funding from the Xeric Foundation to self-publish her comic, Girlhero. In 2007, she was invited by the New York Times to serialize her Watergate Sue comic in the magazine. In November 2022, Fantagraphics published Kelso's fourth book, a collection of graphic short stories called, Who Will Make the Pancakes.Â
The result of Wendy Kendall's passion for purses, mystery and romance is an intriguing In Purse-Suit mysteries series. Kat Out of the Bag introduces Katherine Watson purse designer/sleuth, investigating murder as she moves from designer bags to body bags. The prequel, Purse-Stachio Makes A Splash delves into a chilling cold case. The romantic suspense, Snow Kiss Cookies To Die For creates an intriguing tangle of mystery and love. Her 2022 release, Cherry Shakes In The Park blends danger, divas, and frothy summer delights. Wendy enjoys the Pacific Northwest life and time with her two adult sons. She's a blogger, YouTube podcaster, speaker, project manager, and syndicated columnist. Just wait until you see what Katherine Watson and her friends in Bayside face next in the series.
Website – WendyWritesBooks.com
Facebook – WendyKendallMysteries
Twitter – @wendywrites1
Instagram – wendyekendall
Describe your teaching style.
Interactive [with] in class sharing and time to experiment in writing, plotting, and other creations. I also share my prepared materials for the content.
RICK KENNEY teaches at the MFA program at University of Washington. .
REGINALD KENT holds a Master of Arts in English Literature from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and is M.F.A candidate in the prose track. Reggie has been published in The Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore and has work featured in The Best Asian Short Stories 2022 collection. His work focuses on diaspora, queer forms, and the gay experience.
Saba Keramati is a poet, editor, and educator from California. Her work appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Margins, and other publications. She is the poetry editor for Sundog Lit. Go to www.sabakeramati.com for more information.
Twitter: @sabzi_k
King Khazm is an emcee, producer, and community organizer who over 25 years has become a prominent figure in the Hip-Hop community in Seattle and around the world. Khazm has performed at the World’s Fair & Expo 2020 (Dubai), Galpao Aplauso (Brazil), Strictly Street (Malaysia), and the Folklife Festival (Seattle), sharing stages with the likes of Naughty By Nature, Gza, Kurtis Blow, Zion I, Aceyalone and others. As a producer, he has collaborated with artists such as Afu-Ra, Def-I, Eli Almic, and Gabriel Teodros.Â
Rachel Khong is a writer living in San Francisco. Her debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor and then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. With Lucky Peach, she also edited a cookbook about eggs, called All About Eggs. Her second novel, Real Americans, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2024.
Kalehua Kim is a poet living in the Seattle area. Born of Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino, and Portuguese descent, her multicultural background informs much of her work. A finalist for the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poetry, her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Calyx, and ‘Ōiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal.Â
Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American speculative fiction writer based in New York City. She is a Nebula Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and BSFA Award recipient, as well as a Hugo, Locus, Sturgeon, and Astounding Award finalist. Her short fiction has been published in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other venues. Her work has been reprinted in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 and 2024 and elsewhere, and has been translated into multiple languages. When she’s not writing, she’s co-hosting her internet culture podcast Wow if True — both equally noble pursuits. Find her at isabel.kim or @isabel.kim on Bluesky.
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