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Janet Yang - 1 post
has written poetry sporadically for 45 years and so far has no desire to try writing prose. However, in her "day job" as a visual artist she occasionally succumbs to a narrative style. In 2005, Janet and her family moved full time to Lopez Island, where she and her husband continually hope to finish building their house and move on to other activities.
Jay Klokker - 2 posts
spent many years of teaching ESL to immigrant adults in Brooklyn and now lives in the Hudson Valley, where he writes poems and speculative fiction and dreams of a better world. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, including Shark Reef and, most recently, One Hand Clapping.
Jayne Marek - 1 post
’s poetry and art photos appear most recently in The Cortland Review, Shantih, Gulf Stream, Raven Chronicles, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Amsterdam Review, About Place Journal, Bombay Gin, Sin Fronteras, and Notre Dame Review. She has provided color cover art for several journals and for her two full-length poetry books—In and Out of Rough Water (Kelsay Books, 2017) and The Tree Surgeon Dreams of Bowling (Finishing Line, 2018). Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, she also was a finalist for the David Martinson–Meadowhawk Prize, the Ex Ophidia Poetry Book Prize, and the Ryan R. Gibbs Photography Contest.
Jean Copeland - 1 post
is a writer and English teacher whose fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Connecticut Review, Best Lesbian Love Stories, The Noctua Review, P.S. What I Didn't Say, The First Line, Hotmetalpress.net and Harrington Lesbian Literary Review. She is currently working on her first novel.
Jed Wyman - 1 post
received his MFA in Creative Writing from Oregon State University in 2009 and currently teaches writing at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay. Stories of his have appeared in The Bangalore Review, 34thParallel, The Radvocate, JMWW, Verdad and have been shortlisted for Writecorner Press’s E.M. Koeppel Award. Prior to this he spent two summers teaching in Kenya, twelve summers building trails and packing mules in Sequoia National Park, and played guitar in a number of craptastic rock bands including Grim Reefer (Bard College, New York) and Non Drowsy (Missoula, Montana).
Jeff Otis - 1 post
has been creating photographs since high school (a long time ago) when he first picked-up his grandfather's camera and apparently forgot to put it down. His photos have been published in newspapers, magazines, books, on the internet, and displayed in shows. He had the unique opportunity of working at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite when Ansel was alive, as well as participating in an adventurous book project in Ethiopia. He lives on Orcas Island with his wonderful dog Bo.
Jenni Tooley - 1 post
spent ten years in New York City as an actress, filmmaker, and yoga teacher and now happily resides in Austin, Texas, where she hikes, writes and explores what it means to live a full life.
Jennifer Brennock - 2 posts
earned a MFA in Writing from Goddard College. She writes prose, drama, and poetry. Her creative work has been chosen by Minerva Rising, Rough and Rede, Pitkin Review, Line Zero, Till, Involutions, Becoming: What Makes a Woman from University of Nebraska and on stage at Orcas Center and Actors Theater of Orcas Island. Jennifer lives in Portland but her real homes are Orcas Island and Astoria, Oregon. She is at work on Real, a memoir about adoption and single motherhood. Jennifer dislikes talking about herself in third person.
Jenny Morse - 1 post
is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois—Chicago. In her free time she tries to travel as much as possible and complete her visits to all 50 U.S. states this June with Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Her work has been published in Menacing Hedge, flashquake and The Notre Dame Review.
Jenny Natapow - 1 post
is a photographer and writer living on Lopez Island, off the coast of Washington. Her native Northwest landscape inspires her work and she spends as much time as possible outdoors learning, exploring and playing. Jenny is passionate about providing her daughter with a childhood steeped in curiosity, exploration and mud puddles because she knows, from experience, that her own free range childhood is her most valuable asset.