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Heather June - 3 posts
lives with her family in the woods. Before Lopez, she grew up in Colorado.
Heidi Nibbelink - 2 posts
earned an MFA at the Sewanee School of Letters in Tennessee. Her work received honorable mention in the Saturday Evening Post’s 2020 Great American Fiction Contest and was a finalist for Fiction Southeast’s Ernest Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize. Read more at heidinibbelink.com, or follow her on Twitter @AnnoyedOboist.
Helen Sanders - 1 post
fell in love with the tortured Vulcan soul of Mr. Spock when she was fourteen years old. Appalled that there were no similar elven-eared, angst-ridden creatures around her, she went on a library jihad to seek out others like Spock who had journeyed far from their interesting alien lands. She read every science fiction and fantasy book that she could get her hands on, and thus tainted by writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K. LeGuin and Theodore Sturgeon, she started creating her own fantasy worlds when she was 17. It must also be unfortunately noted that she enjoyed dressing up as Admiral Kirk for conventions, she enjoyed earning a Master's degree in creative writing, and she still secretly enjoys the guilty pleasure of writing Harry Potter fan fiction. She lives on Lopez amidst the company of her friends, which include a deranged horse wrangler, a movie producing diva, a steamboat captain, a whole herd of singers, and a doughty band of pipers and drummers who tolerate her politely. Her partner tolerates her desire to be a writer with a compassion that approaches sainthood.
Hilary Schaper - 2 posts
’s essays have been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, earned Honorable Mention in New Letters’ nonfiction contest, and been a finalist in the Prime Number Magazine’s creative nonfiction contest. Her piece, Their Room, appeared in SHARK REEF, issue 19, Winter 2012. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore Review, Hotel Amerika, Under the Sun, Masque and Spectacle, and other literary journals. She lives in Los Angeles, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and, in a previous life, practiced law.
Hildegarde Goss - 1 post
was born in Los Angeles, and she attended boarding school in Sweden during her teenage years, spending summers and holidays with relatives in the coastal islands of her immigrant parents' native country. She studied art in night school at the Art Center in Los Angeles while working in the daytime. Hildegarde and her late husband, Bill Goss, moved to Lopez Island in 1975, where she still resides with her beloved Corgi and Big Dog, Bill's Rottweiler.
From early childhood throughout a 40-year career as a massage therapist, Hildegarde Goss says, “I always painted.”
Holly Day - 1 post
is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who teaches needlepoint classes in the Minneapolis school district. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Worcester Review, Broken Pencil, and Slipstream, and she is the recipient of the 2011 Sam Ragan Poetry Prize from Barton College. Her most recent published book is "Notenlesen für Dummies Das Pocketbuch," while her novel, "The Trouble With Clare," is due out from Hydra Publications in 2013.
Indy Zoeller - 1 post
was born and raised on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands. Since graduating from Whitman College, he has made inroads into theater, music and writing in the San Juans, collaborating with local musicians, appearing in several plays, and writing a short play – “Diminished Thirds” - that was produced in PlayFest '12 on Orcas Island.
Indy Zoller
was born and raised on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands. Since graduating from Whitman College, he has made inroads into theater, music and writing in the San Juans, collaborating with local musicians, appearing in several plays, and writing a short play – “Diminished Thirds” - that was produced in PlayFest '12 on Orcas Island.
Ingrid Karnikis - 1 post
and her husband George have lived on Orcas for 35 years. Her primary job has been mother and wife. Her four children, now grown up, all went to school on Orcas. Ingrid has been writing poetry for many years and was published In Unity Magazine and in local collections. She draws inspiration from the natural world and from our mysterious human nature.
Iris Graville - 8 posts
lives on Lopez Island, WA, where she writes and serves as publisher of SHARK REEF Literary Magazine, staff writer for The Wayfarer Magazine, and an Advisory Board member for Homebound Publications. She's a retired nurse and the author of four nonfiction books, including a memoir, Hiking Naked, and the essay collection Writer in a Life Vest: Essays from the Salish Sea (both published by Homebound Publications and recipients of Nautilus Awards). She served as the writer and worked with photographers and a chef for BOUNTY: Lopez Island Farms, Food, and Community (Lopez Community Land Trust). Iris’s first book, Hands at Work: Portraits and Profiles of People Who Work with Their Hands (Heron Moon Press), received numerous awards, including a Nautilus Gold award. Her profiles and personal essays have been published in national and regional journals, magazines, and anthologies. https://irisgraville.com