From the Directory of Writers

Janee Baugher

Poet
Seattle, WA

Janée J. Baugher holds a BS in Applied Physiology from Boston University and an MFA in Creative Writing (secondary emphases in Literature and Literary Editing & Design) from Eastern Washington University. Baugher has taught General Writing, Poetry, and Fiction at University of Washington - Experimental College, Highline Community College, Eastern State Hospital, Interlochen College of Creative Arts, and elsewhere. Baugher especially enjoys collaborating with visual and performing artists. Recently, she’s had her poetry adapted for the stage and set to music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Contemporary Dance Theater in Ohio, Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan), and Dance Now! Ensemble (Miami). Baugher lives in Seattle.

Nina Elizabeth Bayer

Fiction Writer
Bothell, WA

Bruce Beasley

Poet
Bellingham, WA

Bruce Beasley is a professor of English at Western Washington University and the author of six collections of poems, most recently THE CORPSE FLOWER: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (University of Washington Press, 2007). He won the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series Award for LORD BRAIN (2005), the Colorado Prize for Poetry (selected by Charles Wright) for SUMMER MYSTAGOGIA (1996), and the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award for THE CREATION (1994). Wesleyan University Press published his books SPIRITUALS (1988) and SIGNS AND ABOMINATIONS (2000). He has won an NEA fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes, and his work appears in THE PUSHCART BOOK OF POETRY: THE BEST POEMS FROM THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS OF THE PUSHCART PRIZE.

E Belew

Fiction Writer
Roslyn, WA

Ellie Belew is a novelist who also writes some short fiction. She believes in the power of the stories we tell ourselves and each other, and what we could know if we paid better attention. Her fiction follows generations of sometimes hard-bitten characters in one allegorical town. Run Plant Fly, her first novel, tells the story of the first virtual reality theme park as it forever alters the fabric of a small community. Ursula LeGuin calls Run Plant Fly "a fireball of a novel [where] the lives of ordinary people in a small American town strike across each other and flare up into pain and beauty."

Sheila Bender

Poet
Port Townsend, WA