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Dylan Ellis - 1 post
wrote Perfected Beat when he was 18 years old. He was raised on Lopez Island where he developed interests in nature, drawing, and growing exotic chickens. Dylan graduated from Spring Street School in the class of 2004 and is now attending Vassar College in upstate NY. He likes Political Science and plays varsity lacrosse.
Eleanor Burke - 2 posts
is a South Carolina native. She has written since the age of seven and has a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from the University of South Carolina. She moved to Lopez in March 2008 to learn to farm. She has produced, designed and self-published two poetry chapbooks, A Kiss for the Whole World (Spring 2008) and Hunger (Winter 2008), as well as the zine, It's a Farm Life. She is partner to Andre Entermann and full time new mama to Weston River Burke.
Elizabeth Austen - 2 posts
's poems -- almost all of them -- in her debut poetry collection, Every Dress a Decision (Blue Begonia Press, 2011), were drafted or revised on an island, though she lives in West Seattle. She’s written at the Whiteley Center on San Juan, at the Artsmith residency on Orcas and at Hedgebrook and friends’ homes on Whidbey. She’s also the author of two chapbooks, The Girl Who Goes Alone (Floating Bridge Press, 2010) and Where Currents Meet (one of four winners of the 2010 Toadlily Press chapbook award and part of the quartet Sightline). Her poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily, and in journals including the Los Angeles Review, Bellingham Review and Willow Springs. She was the Washington “roadshow poet” and is the literary producer for KUOW 94.9 public radio. Find her online at elizabethausten.org.
Elizabeth Landrum - 6 posts
is a clinical psychologist currently enjoying retirement life on an island in the Salish Sea. She was born in Kentucky, her “home of mind and memory,” and in her 40s was drawn to the Northwest, her “home of heart.” She lived in Edmonds, WA, for 15 years before retiring to Lopez Island where she has found time and inspiration for creative endeavors. She published two chapbooks, Shelf Life (2019) and Still Life (2021), and her poems have appeared in numerous publications. She served as poetry co-editor of Shark Reef with John Sangster for several years.
Ellen Estilai - 1 post
received her B.A. in Art from the University of California, Davis, and her M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Tehran. A former arts administrator, she was executive director of the Riverside Arts Council and the Arts Council for San Bernardino County and educational services manager of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. She has taught English language, literature and writing at universities in Iran and California. Her essay “Front Yard Fruit,” originally published in Alimentum: The Literature of Food, is included in New California Writing 2011 (Heyday) and was selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2011. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has published poetry and essays in several journals and anthologies, including Phantom Seed; Broad!; Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing; Ink & Letters; Heron Tree; (In)Visible Memoirs, Vol. 2.; Writing from Inlandia; and HOME: Tall Grass Writers Guild Anthology. Ellen is a founding board member and past-president of the Inlandia Institute, a literary center in Riverside, California.
Ellen Fisher - 1 post
was 12 when she created these works. She was born December 28, 1992, grew up on a farm in Idaho, and moved to Lopez Island when she was five. She has been drawing and painting since she was four. She started selling art cards at the age of eight. She hopes to study art in college.
Ellen Zhang - 1 post
is an undergraduate student at Harvard University pursuing writing. Her poems have appeared in The Albion Review, Cuckoo Quarterly, Asia Literary Review, and elsewhere. In addition, her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and Michigan State University.
Elsie McFarland - 1 post
splits her time between writing, yoga and friends on Orcas and a still active business life in Portland. Elsie says she is honored to be included in this issue of SHARK REEF.
Elya Braden - 2 posts
took a long detour from her creative endeavors to pursue an eighteen-year career as a corporate lawyer and entrepreneur. She is now a writer and mixed-media artist living in Los Angeles and is assistant editor of Gyroscope Review. Her work has been published in Calyx, Causeway Lit, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Prometheus Dreaming, Rattle Poets Respond and elsewhere and has been nominated for Best of the Net. She is the author of the chapbook, Open The Fist, recently released by Finishing Line Press. You can find her online at www.elyabraden.com
Emily Gray Koehler - 1 post
's artist statement: When asked how long I’ve been making prints, I stumble. The easiest answer is since I was thirteen, when a family friend invited me to her print studio. It was certainly from that experience that I fell in love with printmaking; however, that doesn’t completely answer the question. Even as a baby, I was fascinated by the impression my hands made in wet beach sand, and the intricate lines that appeared when I pressed a paint covered thumb onto paper. In my earliest art classes, I scratched images into foam plates and printed them like stamps. How long have I been making prints? Well, forever… that is to say, from my earliest memories.
In every print ever made, there is a history of process, a story told through impression. The grain of the wood or the bevel of the copper translates onto paper something of their essence. Wood becomes image, metal becomes paper, stone becomes print. It is in this transmutation of properties that my love of printmaking lies. Just as the mechanisms of printmaking guide my hand, my heart is inspired by the wonder of cycles and processes in nature. The marrying of these two passions, has informed my art as I seek to explore the intersection of humanity and nature in a world where nothing is untouched by man.
After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with an emphasis in Printmaking from Grand Valley State University in 2006, I moved to Minnesota where I have since established a public studio in White Bear Lake. In the ensuing years, my prints have evolved to explore humanity’s continuing struggle to understand the implications of its own impermanence in an ever-changing landscape. In the Anthropocene, where we influence and affect everything we touch, I believe it will only be through knowledge and creativity that we may learn to coexist with each other and our environment in this new and volatile epoch. To this end, my work dances between two manifestations: heavily researched visual studies of ecology, biology and natural history and intimately spiritual vignettes of the everyday magic of nature. See more of her work at emilygraykoehler.com.