Authors

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Niki Kantzios - 1 post

is a nun/visual artist/archaeologist-turned-prose writer, the author of several series of historical fiction. She lives in northern France.

Nils Benson - 1 post

was born in 1966 and grew up in Pullman, Washington. He went to art school in Portland, Oregon at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and in the Chongqing provence of the People's Republic of China, where he studied traditonal Chinese painting for a year. He got his BA in Fine Arts from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where he worked as the projectionist for the Northwest Film Study Center while going to school. He fell in with the film crowd led by Portland filmmaker Gus Van Sant, and worked as a cameraman and editor on Van Sant's early shorts and features. Nils moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and became a professional cinematographer. Since then he has split his time between film and fine art. He moved to Lopez Island in 1999 with his wife and two sons.

Nina Adel - 1 post

[she, her] is the recipient of a 2023 Yaddo Artist Residency. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. Winner of the Bellevue Literary Review’s 2020 Buckvar Prize for her lyric essay Refugere, Nina’s work has been published in Flash Fiction Magazine, Moria, Breath and Shadow, matchbook, and many other publications. She has received recognition in such diverse corners of the arts world as Glimmer Train, The Kerrville Music Festival, and Wolf Trap, among others. She is a Berklee-trained musician, craftsperson (owner of Blue Salamander Arts and Letters), and English professor, and is the editor of the recent anthology A Lighthouse, a collection of immigrant voices from the Nashville-based Immigrants Write program which she directs. She lives in Nashville alongside her children. Social media: @writethinkspeak; ninaadel.com.

Nina Bennett - 1 post

is the author of Forgotten Tears A Grandmother’s Journey Through Grief. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Kansas City Voices, Red Poppy Review, Houseboat, Bryant Literary Review, Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, The Broadkill Review, and American Society: What Poets See. Nina’s chapbook, Sound Effects, was published in 2013 by Broadkill Press as part of its Key Poetry Series.

Nina Pond Bayer - 1 post

holds a BA from the University of Washington and an MFA from Whidbey Writers Workshop – Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, Whidbey Island, WA. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary publications, including Wild Violet, MO: Writings from the River, Binnacle, Crosscurrents, Pontoon 9, Naugatuck River Review, Extract(s), Conclave, and Manorborn.

Nora Hennick - 1 post

is a graduate of the New School’s MFA program. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Oak Boesky - 2 posts

has lived in the San Juan islands since 1985, mostly on Orcas, and since 2006 on San Juan Island. She is a visual artist and secret poet.

Paige Dempsey - 1 post

recently received her BA in Environmental Humanities from Whitman College. She is an emerging writer, with poems published in Whitman College’s two campus literary magazines. After moving back to Minneapolis, MN, she works at a children’s bookstore where she gets to share her love of stories with people of all ages.

Patti White - 1 post

is the author of three collections of poetry (Tackle Box, Yellowjackets, and Chain Link Fence), all from Anhinga Press. Her work has appeared in journals such as Iowa Review, Floodwall, Forklift Ohio, River Styx, New Madrid, and Mississippi Review. She teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama.

Paul C. Rosenblatt - 2 posts

recently published stories in October Hill Magazine, The Twin Bill, and Grey Sparrow Journal. As an academic social scientist he has published 14 books, including Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices (with Terri Karis and Richard Powell), African American Grief (with Beverly R. Wallace), and The Impact of Racism on African American Families.