Reyna Ellis - 1 post

wrote My Sister when she was 9 years old. She found her way to Lopez Island at the age of six. As she learned to read and write and speak in English, she also discovered her writer's voice. She writes about her life, her friends, her past. When she isn't writing she spends her time playing piano and drawing nature prints. Her nickname is Tiny.

Rich Ives - 3 posts

has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. He is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander and the 2012 winner of the Thin Air Creative Nonfiction Award. His books include Light from a Small Brown Bird (Bitter Oleander Press--poetry), Sharpen (The Newer York—fiction chapbook), The Balloon Containing the Water Containing the Narrative Begins Leaking (What Books—stories), Old Man Walking Home After Dark (Cyberwit--poetry), Dubious Inquiries into Magnificent Inadequacies (Cyberwit--poetry), A Servant’s Map of the Body (Cyberwit—stories), Incomprehensibly Well-adjusted Missing Persons of Interest (Cyberwit—stories), and Tunneling to the Moon (Silenced Press--stories).

Richard Carter - 3 posts

grew up in Portland, Oregon, the son of a doctor and a dancer. After graduating from Vassar College and receiving his MFA in playwriting from the University of Washington, Richard’s historical play Blood and Iron won Seattle’s Jumpstart New Play Competition and went on to be presented by the Seattle Shakespeare Festival in 1997 and by Living Theatre Company in London's West End in 1998. His musical play, Winds in the Morning, premiered at the 1997 Seattle Fringe Festival and was selected to inaugurate the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival in 2000.

Richard offers his talents in many venues. As Author/Director of the Community Shakespeare Company, his adaptations of Shakespeare for young actors are utterly faithful to the spirit of the original plays, while making them instantly accessible to modern students and audiences. Acknowledged by the Educational Theatre Association, CSC Editions are used by teachers across the U.S. and abroad to introduce elementary and middle schoolers to the Bard.

Richard lives with his wife Jeanna on a small farm on Lopez Island, where they have been raising their children and practicing sustainable agriculture together since 1988.

Pendarvis is his first novel.

Richard Hedderman - 1 post

is a multi-Pushcart Prize nominee and author of two poetry collections including, most recently, Choosing a Stone (Finish Line Press). His work has been published in dozens of journals and anthologies both in the U.S. and abroad. He has served as a guest poet at the Library of Congress, Writer-in-Residence at the Milwaukee Public Museum, and has performed his writing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is currently a coordinator and creative writing instructor for the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books.

Richard L. Ratliff

is a baby boomer, born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, whose Midwest ties are the foundation and setting for his poetry. He is a Purdue University graduate, with two years of engineering that turned into a degree in English Literature; he was also a two year letterman in wrestling. All of these eclectic combinations have given him a career as a boiler and combustion expert and poet.

Richard LeBlond - 1 post

is a retired biologist living in North Carolina. His essays and photographs have appeared in many U.S. and international journals, including Montreal Review, Weber – The Contemporary West, Concis, Lowestoft Chronicle, Trampset, and Still Point Arts Quarterly. His essay collection, Homesick for Nowhere, won a 2022 EastOver Press prize for nonfiction, including publication in book form. His work has been nominated for “Best American Travel Writing” and “Best of the Net.”

Richard Luftig - 1 post

is a Midwesterner now living California. He is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for Literature and a semi-finalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award for Poetry. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines including Bloodroot, Front Porch Review, Broadkill Literary Review, and Pulse literary Magazine. One of his published short stories was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize.

Richard Ratliff - 1 post

is a baby boomer, born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, whose Midwest ties are the foundation and setting for his poetry. He is a Purdue University graduate, with two years of engineering that turned into a degree in English Literature; he was also a two year letterman in wrestling. All of these eclectic combinations have given him a career as a boiler and combustion expert and poet.

Richard Singer - 1 post

has been creating paintings in the Pacific Northwest since the early 1970s. His off-center art pieces are in collections in Washington, Oregon and California. Since 1999, the artist has been including transferred and altered vintage photographs and old print media images in his works, which have added evocative reflections of the past to the paintings.

A former president of the Northwest Watercolor Society, Richard has strayed far afield from his pure watercolor roots. “You can't stop using your imagination and creative impulses to stay in line with watercolor show rules. I don't want to restrict myself in any way,” he says. His Kanji series includes old Chinese-based Japanese written characters. The nature of these characters as miniature pictographs with ancient origins fascinates him. The current themes are simple: earth, air, war, trees, fire, for example. The paintings themselves, however, may get complex, some taking weeks to execute. “I'm not running out of subjects,” he says. “As I get older, my growing sense of awe makes them grow geometrically.”

Richard Singer has been honored with many awards and art jury selections over the last 30 years. He was recently asked to participate in the Year 2000 60-year watercolor retrospective at Seattle's Frye Art Museum. Singer studied art at the University of Washington and Cornish School in Seattle. His major influences have been former acquaintances Kenneth Callahan and William Wiley. He particularly admires the works of J..M.W. Turner, Paul Klee and Robert Rauschenburg.

Richard Ward - 1 post

is a retired English teacher and long-time Lopez resident. He divides his time between traveling abroad and trying to finish his house, a project he calls "a race with death." Travel, he feels, is the best way to understand the power of culture to shape one's perception of the world. He shares his experiences through occasional writing and slide shows.