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Mike Conner - 1 post
sailed into the San Juan Islands intending a brief layover on his journey to Alaska. He has been here 16 years so far. "Crow" is part of a collection of stories which may coalesce into something if Mike ever writes it.
Mike Gravagno - 1 post
can’t stop moving and making things: he’s a pop-culture critic, poet, nonfiction writer, copywriter, and podcaster. Mike received a BA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. His poetry, nonfiction, and reviews can be found in Calliope, TAB, the Gordian Review and the Moon Tide Press poetry anthologies, Lullaby of Teeth, and Dark Ink.
Miriam Edelson - 1 post
is a neurodivergent social activist, settler, writer and mother living in Toronto, Canada. Her literary non-fiction, personal essays and commentaries have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, various literary journals including Dreamers Magazine, Collective Unrest, Writing Disorder, Palabras, Wilderness House Literary Review and on CBC Radio. Her short stories have been published by Narrative Northeast and The Wascana Review. Her first book, “My Journey with Jake: A Memoir of Parenting and Disability” was published in April 2000. “Battle Cries: Justice for Kids with Special Needs” appeared in late 2005. She completed a doctorate in 2016 at University of Toronto focused upon Mental Health in the Workplace. “The Swirl in my Burl”, her collection of essays, came out in October 2022. “Deep Roots, New Threats: Confronting the Rising Right” ed. M. Edelson, is forthcoming in 2024.
Molly Preston - 1 post
My painting is color-based and color-centric. Even the narrative landscapes play with the possible/impossible expression of what the eye sees. Sheer exuberance is allowed, rules are broken, even the trite can be rendered anew. Fear has no place here. Joy can also be serious.
Painting allows me to filter the world’s pain through the lens of abstraction. I begin with reality and eliminate it bit by bit until I find a small safe place. There the viewer may stop, rest and experience joy before returning to her frantic world.
My work for the past twenty years has explored the limitless possibilities of color. Both in expressionistic landscapes and abstracts, color reigns. Occasionally high key, but often foiled by gray. I may begin with a grid, a landscape, or even a painting I have abandoned. Deconstructing the underlying imagery creates transitional areas, each gesture demands a response. Shapes interrupt lines and tonalities create tension. Many revisions later I walk away. Returning days, months, or years later the conversation resumes and often the painting is quickly resolved. My paintings feel like living things requiring my attendance, so much that it is only when I no longer own them that I am able to let them be. Then it's time for the viewer to begin the conversation.
As a part-time resident of Lopez Island (on Shark Reef road, no less) for 35+ years, the island’s many moods are my most influential source for imagery. Other influences are travel and the desert landscape of the Coachella Valley.
I returned to oil painting following degrees and careers in interior design and arts education. I paint nearly every day and even on the days I don’t I am pondering it, reading about it, looking at the light, considering the shadows, the negative space.
I have won awards for both my abstracts and expressionistic landscapes.
I am a gallery member of Women Painters of Washington, and The Desert Art Center, The Lopez Artist Guild and the Artists Council of the Coachella Valley. You can find more about me and my work at mollypreston.com
Molly Swan-Sheeran - 10 posts
who makes her living as a metal smith, has been writing poetry for more than 35 years. She has also written a book about designing paper-cut Celtic knots. She and her husband live on a small sailboat and only recently installed a telephone. You can find her on the web at www.celticswan.com/poems
MollyBee Welkin - 1 post
has found poetry to be her delight in her elder years. Her poems have been published in the Grey Squirrel, Buzzwords, and Seattle's Real Change as well as that of her Missouri Southern State University's Winged Lion. MollyBee has found time to attend a wide variety of workshops including those in Bennington, Vermont, Whidbey Island and Seattle's Richard Hugo House. In her travels she is atracted to 'open mic' gigs. Her home is now on Orcas where she is enjoying writer groups.
Monica Woelfel - 2 posts
has an M.F.A. in creative writing from University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in literary journals, including Seattle Review, Room of One’s Own and The North American Review. She lived for many years on Orcas Island and served as a Washington State Artist in Residence before moving in 2006 to her mother’s hometown of Soquel, CA. In their spare time, she and her husband love to build structures using clay, straw, sand and stone.
Morgan Songi - 1 post
's nonfiction, short stories, essays and poetry have been published in literary journals in the US and Canada. As a genealogy librarian in the Denver Public Library, she traced her Chippewa French-voyageur ancestry back seven generations to the Chippewa head man Gajibiash. She lives in Oregon where she's a member of Willamette Writers, Oregon Writer's Colony, WORDOS and ROOS writing groups. She's an enrolled member of the Red Cliff Band of Chippewa in northern Wisconsin. Her writing energy follows in the path of T. Leland Bell. the Anishinaabe artist who advised that, "Like little warriors you go and search for the knowledge. It just takes one person and then you begin to arrange it in a way that is understandable for everybody."
Murray Silverstein - 1 post
has been published in Brief Wilderness, The Brooklyn Review, Cape Rock Poetry, Euphony Journal, Midwest Quarterly, Spillway, Poetry East, West Marin Review, RUNES, Nimrod, Connecticut Review, The Hollins Critic, ZYZZYVA, California Quarterly, El Portal Literary Journal, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Front Range Review, Louisiana Literature, The MacGuffin, The Meadow, Pembroke Magazine, Pennsylvania English, Plainsongs, RATTLE, Sunlight Press, Sunspot Lit, Sweet Tree Review, Under a Warm Green Linden, Voices de la Luna, and The Courtship of Winds, among others. He has authored two books of poetry, Master of Leaves (2014) and Any Old Wolf (2007), the latter of which received the Independent Publisher’s Bronze Medal for Poetry in 2006. Silverstein is the senior editor of the anthology America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (2018), winner of the Independent Publisher’s Silver Medal for Anthologies in 2017. All were published by Sixteen Rivers Press. A retired architect, Silverstein also co-authored four books about architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press) and Patterns of Home (The Taunton Press). He holds a master’s degree in architecture.
Nalini Davison - 1 post
lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, where she works as a transpersonal psychotherapist. With an MA in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh, she early on became a teacher but then found herself fascinated with human awareness and switched careers. She just started submitting; recent poems have appeared in The Poetry of Yoga and Penumbra. Things Nalini loves include: writing poetry and fiction; delving into Eastern philosophy; hiking and ballroom dancing; and seeing her psychotherapy clients.