Authors Supporting Critique Mania

The following is a list of the authors who are supporting the Critique Mania fundraiser. The list is alphabetical and includes information at the end of the bio as to basic genre (fiction, poetry, nonfiction). You can look up most of these writers for more details if you want to consider your choice more fully. Some of the authors are overseas, so postage should be loose with the SAE so the authors can swap out the postage.

Have fun – This is a fantastic selection of authors!

Agodon, Kelli Russell --- Alcalá, Kathleen ---Allen, Candace --- Anderson, Murray --- Ayers, Lana Hechtman --- Banerjee,Anjali --- Barnhill, Anne C. --- Begnal, Michael S. --- Bender, Sheila --- Blue, Marian --- Blew,  Mary Clearman --- Brenna, Duff --- Calderazzo, John --- Costa, Carol --- Cruz-Hacker, Alba --- Detmer, Pat --- Etchemendy, Nancy --- Girault, Norton --- Gover, Robert --- Haskins, Lola --- Healy, Lorraine --- Hubbard, Thomas --- King-Albrecht, Malaika ---  McQuinn, Don   Olander, Renée --- Osborn, Alice --- Renner, Kathryn --- Robbins, Richard --- Rogers, Bruce Holland --- Rycraft, Ricki --- Sandberg, Bobbi --- Sellman, Tamara Kaye --- Sherbondy, Maureen -- Ude, Wayne --- Weinstein, Ph.D., Sharon -- Welch, Michael Dylan -- What, Leslie ---  Wiggs, Susan --- Witchey, Eric M. --- Wood, Frances --- Wright,  Carolyne --- Zwinger, Susan

Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of two books of poems, Small Knots (2004) and Geography, winner of the Washington State Floating Bridge Press Award.  Her work has recently appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, Image, the North American Review, the Notre Dame Review, and in Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times.  She is the recipient of two Artist Trust GAP grants as well as Puffin Foundation grant as the editor of the poetry broadside series The Making of Peace.  Kelli is a graduate of the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writers Workshop where she received her MFA.  Currently, she is the editor of Crab Creek Review.  www.agodon.com  Poetry

Kathleen Alcalá is a 2007 Artist Trust Fellow.  She is also the author of several award-winning books set in the Southwest and  Mexico: Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist; Spirits of the Ordinary; The Flower in the Skull; and Treasures in Heaven. She teaches creative writing in the low-residency MFA program of the Whidbey Island Writers Workshop. Her recent collection of essays, The Desert Remembers My Name – On Family and Writing, received an International Latino Book Award and a Forward Magazine Award.   www.kathleenalcala.com Fiction/Creative Nonfiction

Candace Allen , retired principal from Mercer Human Resources Consulting, established the company's Pacific Northwest communication practice and served as its national Communication Practice Leader. She has received numerous awards for client publications and communication programs, most notably Crain Publications’ National Award of Excellence. Now a freelance editor and writer, Candace's many features about log homes have appeared in Log Home Living, Log Home Design and LogKnowledge. A worldwide sailor, her sea stories have been published nationally in Sail, Cruising World, Sea and in a variety of regional publications such as 48 Degrees North, Nor'westing and Burgee. She has written for newspapers, magazines, and trade publications about the diverse topics of gardening, books, travel, bridge, pensions, health care and employee communication. A founder of the Whidbey Island Writers Association Conference, Candace established WIWA's newsletter and served as its editor for three years. She served as a member of the Association's board of directors and is WIWA's webmaster. Nonfiction

Murray Anderson is retired and lives in Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island in Washington State. He graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Dairy Husbandry and worked in that field for 30 years before becoming a CEO of a variety of nonprofit agencies serving persons with developmental disabilities.  In 1982, while working in Pullman, WA, He attended his first poetry-writing workshop at the University of Idaho. In 1989 he embarked on writing fiction. His novel Breederman, about the demise of the family farms in the 50’s and 60’ and its impact on the lives of those families, was published in 2001 and has been sold in 48 states. His poetry and short stories have been published in variety of literary magazines. Fiction and Poetry

Lana Hechtman Ayers is  Poetry Editor of Crab Creek Review and also publisher of Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbooks and Late Blooms Poetry Postcard Series. In addition, she is a private manuscript consultant and workshop facilitator. A Hedgebrook alumna, she is the author of three poetry collections of her own.  www.LanaAyers.com  Poetry

Anjali Banerjee was born in India, raised in Canada and California and received degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written four novels for youngsters and two novels for adults, and she’s at work on her next novel for children. The Philadelphia Inquirer called her young adult novel, Maya Running (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House) “beautiful and complex” and “pleasingly accessible.” The Seattle Times praised Anjali’s novel for adults, Imaginary Men (Downtown Press/Pocket Books) as “a romantic comedy equal to Bend it Like Beckham.” Anjali lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, three cats and a rabbit named Friday. General fiction and children’s fiction

Anne C. Barnhill's work (short fiction, poetry and nonfiction) has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies including The Antietam Review, the Grammy-nominated Grow Old Along with Me and the Notre Dame Review. She is the recipient of grants, awards and residencies. Her first book, At Home in the Land of Oz, published in 2007, has met with favorable reviews. Ms. Barnhill has presented programs for the Episcopal Church Women, Converse College, Alderson-Broaddus College, Kernersville Moravian Church and many libraries, book clubs and book stores. She teaches writing workshops and special workshops that enhance creativity for writing conferences, including the Appalachian Writers Association and the South Carolina Writers Conference in 2008. Currently, Ms. Barnhill is at work on a novel set in Tudor England. Fiction/Nonfiction

Michael S. Begnal is the author of three collections: Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry, 2007), Mercury, the Dime (Six Gallery Press, 2005), and The Lakes of Coma (Six Gallery Press, 2003).  He is published in numerous literary journals, and in anthologies such as the recent essay collection, Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde under Post-Conditions (Litteraria Pragensia, 2006).  He was formerly the editor of the Galway Ireland-based literary magazine, The Burning Bush (1998-2004).  His blog can be read at www.mikebegnal.blogspot.com. Nonfiction, Poetry

Sheila Bender is the author of eight books on writing (Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, Keeping a Journal You Love, Writing Personal Poetry, Writing in a New Convertible with the Top Down and the Writer's Journal: Forty Writers and Their Journals among them) as well as Sustenance: New and Selected Poems. She publishes Writing It Real, an online magazine for people who write from personal experience at www.writingitreal.com and has been a feature writer and columnist for Writer’s Digest Magazine and The Writer Magazine and a book reviewer for The Seattle Times, The World and Poet Lore.  Her essays and poems appear online and in numerous North American literary magazines and anthologies including the Bellingham Review, Poetry Northwest, Seattle Review, Tidepools, King County's Poetry on the Buses, and Tiny Lights. Her Seattle teaching credits include years at various community colleges and public schools. During those teaching years, she created the manuscript for her popular book, Writing Personal Essays, How to Shape Your Life Experience for the Page and Writing Personal Poetry, Creating Poems from Life Experience.  She has served as curator for Seattle’s Poetry on the Buses program and as a judge for the Associated Writing Program and Writer’s Digest literary contests.  She is a frequent presenter, instructor and panel member at conferences. Sheila’s latest book, Perfect Phrases for College Application Essays, is out from McGraw-Hill in time to help this year’s crop of college applicants get their best selves on the page.   Prose

Marian Blue's journalism career spanned 25 years and included national and international newspapers and magazines. She has published poetry, fiction and essays for the past 33 years in literary and commercial magazines and books. She has been an editor for newspapers and magazines and online publications; she has also edited anthologies. As partner of Blue & Ude Writers Services, she has edited thousands of manuscripts. She currently teaches for Skagit Valley College, Writers Online Workshops and Whidbey Island Writers Associations. She is editor for Soundings, WIWAs new magazine. www.blueudewritersservices.com Poetry and Prose

Mary Clearman Blew’s latest book is a novel from University of Nebraska Press, Jackalope Dreams. She has published criticism, novels, memoirs, and books of essays. She has also edited essay and story collections. She teaches at the University of Idaho. Prose

Duff Brenna   is a former AWP Best Novel winner, and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship. His third novel, Too Cool, was a New York Times Noteworthy Book.  His fourth novel, The Altar of the Body was Book Editor's Favorite Book of the Year at South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  His sixth novel, The Law of Falling Bodies was published September 2007. His stories, poems and essays have appeared in Agni, The Nebraska Review, The Literary Review, The Madison Review, New Letters and numerous other literary venues. He is fiction editor for the award-winning online Perigee Magazine.   www.perigee-art.com  www.duffbrenna.com Fiction

John Calderazzo's stories, essays and poems have appeared in dozens of magazines and literary reviews, including Audubon, Bellevue Literary Review, Georgia Review, North American Review, Orion, The Runner, Witness, and elsewhere.  His books include an over-the-shoulder nonfiction writing guide, Writing from Scratch: Freelancing; a children's science book, 101 Questions about Volcanoes; and Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives, a personal travelogue which looks at ways in which volcanoes around the world have affected human culture. A former fulltime freelance writer and now an award-winning creative writing teacher at Colorado State University, he has had his work cited in both Best American Essays and Best American Stories.  He’s presently finishing a book of poems. With his wife SueEllen Campbell, he recently founded and now runs an innovative teaching-climate-change-across-the-curriculum program at CSU. Nonfiction 

Carol Costa is an award-winning playwright and the published author of four novels (such as A Deadly Hand and Love Steals the Scene), two short story collections, and five nonfiction titles (such as The Complete Idiots Guide to Bankruptcy and Video Poker: Play Longer with Less Risk.) Her feature articles and short stories have been published in major magazines and newspapers. Her plays have been produced in NYC, LA, and regional theaters across the country. Carol has worked as a newspaper correspondent, an editor, a literary manager, a theater critic, a writing instructor, and a magazine columnist. Fiction/Nonfiction

Alba Cruz-Hacker, teacher, poet, editor, translator and writer, has had her creative and critical works published in the US, Canada and the Caribbean. Originally from the Dominican Republic, she has lived and traveled throughout North and Central America and the Caribbean. Recently, Alba was awarded the 2007 UCR Poet’s Laureate and the 2007 Tomas Rivera Endowment’s selection in poetry, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize a couple of years back. She teaches creative writing at the University of California Riverside and is the Director of Special Projects for the General Consulate of the Dominican Republic in California and the US Western Region. She lives in the mountains of San Bernardino with her husband and children.  Poetry

Pat Detmer's humorous essays can still be read now and again in the Whidbey Marketplace. She currently has a blog on the award-winning BoomerGirl.com site, and her book Laughing All The Way – Riding Herd on My Middle Age Spread is available at The BookBay in Freeland, from amazon.com, or from her Web site www.patdetmer.com. Creative nonfiction (Humor preference)

Nancy Etchemendy lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of four novels and several dozen short stories, as well as numerous poems. For further details, visit http://www.etchemendy.com. Fiction/Poetry

Norton Girault's poems and stories have appeared in publications such as MSS, Cresent Review, Timbuktu, and Snake Nation Review,  A  Norfolk, VA, resident, he has been a Scholar at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a guest at Yaddo and MacDowell writers' colonies. His as yet unpublished novel The Souvenir Hunters won second place in the 1987 Virginia Fiction Contest.  Fiction

Robert Gover's first novel, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstand, a satire on racism, was roundly rejected in the USA until it appeared in French in 1961 via La Table Ronde, and was covered by both daily newspapers there as a major addition to American letters. The American edition rose up the NY Times bestseller list during a citywide printers' union strike in 1962. Gover went on to publish eight other novels and two books of nonfiction, and was presented (by Kurt Vonnegut) the Most Unsung American Writer Award at the PEN International Congress of 1985. He has taught writing workshops since 1988. His first novel has been in print for more than 45 years. His two most recent books are Time and Money: the Economy and the Planets,  2005, and the novel, On the Run with Dick and Jane, 2007.  Fiction/Nonfiction (Willing to look at longer work – see fee schedule)

Lola Haskins' most recent books are Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA), Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters Press), and Solutions Beginning with A (Modernbook). She teaches in the low residency MFA program at PLU. Poetry

Lorraine Healy is an Argentinean poet and photographer living on Whidbey Island, Washington. The winner of several national awards, including a Pushcart Prize nomination for 2004, she has been published extensively. She holds an M.F.A in Poetry from New England College, New Hampshire. She is the author of The Farthest South (New American Press) and The Archipelago (Finishing Line Press). Poetry

Thomas Hubbard,  a retired writing instructor, won Seattle’s Grand Slam in 1995. He authored Nail and other hardworking poems, Year of the Dragon Press, 1994. He published Children Remember Their Fathers, an anthology of performance poets; Junkyard Dogz, a chapbook also available on audio CD; and Injunz, a chapbook. His book reviews have appeared in Square Lake and Raven Chronicles. Recent publication credits include poems in Arabesques Review: International Poetry and Literature Journal, and ToTopos Poetry International Fall 2006, Albani: Indigenous Poetry and a short story in Red Ink.  He presented instruction at Whidbey Island Writers Conference in March, 2007 and has featured for several Pacific Northwest venues, including Tacoma's Distinguished Writers Series and Whatcom Poetry Series: The Poet as Art.  A poem is scheduled for publication in Harvest International: A Journal Where Writers From Around The World Meet In Community in fall, 2008. Hubbard formerly served on the Washington Poets Association’s board of directors.  Poetry

Malaika King-Albrecht ’s poems have been or are forthcoming in many literary magazines and anthologies, such as Kakalak: an Anthology of Carolina Poets, Pebble Lake Review, Quarterly West, New Orleans Review, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor and other online and print magazines. She has taught c reative writing to sexual abuse/assault survivors and to addicts and alcoholics in therapy groups, and is a volunteer poet in local schools. Her manuscript “Never the Same River” was a semi-finalist in the Seventh Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards, and her poem “Magician’s Assistant” won the Poetry Southeast Poetry Contest and will appear in their summer 2007 issue. L inks to poems online : www.ncarts.org/freeform_scrn_template.cfm?ffscrn_id=132
www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/Content/cb.asp?cbid=5102
www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentyeight/albrecht.html Poetry

Don McQuinn is the award-winning author of nine novels and a teacher dedicated to the goal of helping others publish their work. He has taught the techniques of fiction at the university level and at numerous other venues, such the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Conference, Whidbey Island Writers Conference, the Surrey Writers Conference in British Columbia, and the Maui Writers Conference and Retreat. http://donmcquinn.books.officelive.com/default.aspx   Fiction

Renée Olander’s poems are forthcoming in South Loop Review and 13th Moon, and have appeared in Artword Quarterly, Verse and Universe-Poems about Science & Mathematics, Margie, 5am, Hawai’i Pacific Review Best of the Decade: 1997-2007, Controlled Burn, Dogwood, Oberson, Sistersong: Women Across Cultures, The Café Review and many others.  Her essays and interviews with writers have appeared in The Writers Chronicle, Conversations with John Edgar Wideman, and Port Folio Weekly; work is also forthcoming in 2009 in Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing.  Poetry/Essays

Alice Osborn (www.aliceosborn.com) is a poet, essayist, creative writing instructor, and the author of Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006). A former English teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, she also teaches creative writing to adults through Duke University Continuing Studies, Raleigh Parks and Recreation, NC State's Young Writers' Workshop and at several other learning centers. She writes book reviews for The Pedestal Magazine, writes technology articles from IncTechnology.com, edits novels and poetry, and her poetry has recently appeared in Main Street Rag and The 2008 Kakalak Poetry Anthology. Alice graduated from Virginia Tech with a Finance degree and earned her MA in English at NC State. She believes in good chocolate, good manners and good driving. She now lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and two children. Poetry & Fiction

Kathryn Renner is a Washington-based freelance writer whose career has run the gamut of the writing field:  from advertising copywriting, video scripts, magazine writing and personal essays published in numerous national publications, newspapers and anthologies. Her most recent essays have appeared in Womens' Best Friend and Cat Women, both published by Avalon and Seal Press.  Essays/articles

Richard Robbins grew up in Southern California and Montana. He studied with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees at the University of Montana, where he earned his MFA. He has published three books of poems, most recently Famous Persons We Have Known and The Untested Hand. A fourth, Other Americas, is due out in 2009. He has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the NEA, and the Poetry Society of America. He directs the creative writing program and Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Poetry

Bruce Holland Rogers teaches fiction writing in the Whidbey Writers Workshop low-residency MFA program.  His short stories have won two World Fantasy Awards, two Nebula Awards, a Stoker, and a Pushcart Prize.  His most recent collection is The Keyhole Opera from Wheatland Press.  Fiction

Ricki Rycraft has published stories, essays, and poetry in a number of journals and anthologies, including PIF Magazine, Perigee, VerbSap, The MacGuffin, and Calyx. Chair of the English department at Mt. San Jacinto College in Menifee, CA, Rycraft earned her BA and MA degrees in Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, San Marcos, and her MFA at Oregon’s Pacific University. Fiction/Creative nonfiction

Bobbi Sandberg is a technical writer, college instructor and corporate trainer who has been writing for several decades. Her extensive  background combined with her ability to explain complex concepts in plain  language has made her a popular instructor, speaker and consultant. She writes  computer how-to books, is a technical editor, has compiled teaching literature  and is currently involved with three new books to be published later this  year. Her genre is technical writing. Prose, nonfiction

Tamara Kaye Sellman is the editor of both Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism and Periphery Online. She directs MRCentral.net,   a global interactive community which focuses on literary magical realism. She is an award-winning short story writer; her work has appeared internationally and has been anthologized widely. Sellman works as an independent editor specializing in speculative fiction for Writer's Rainbow Literary Services, LLC, where she can also be found teaching creative writing workshops and coaching writers through specific projects. She is currently at work on a novel, a short story collection, and a book on the writing craft. Fiction/Nonfiction

Maureen Sherbondy grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey, and now resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and three sons. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including European Judaism, Calyx, Feminist Studies, 13th Moon, Cairn, Comstock Review, Crucible, The Roanoke Review and the Raleigh News & Observer. Three of Maureen’s poems were finalists in the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Other poems have won first place in: The Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize (Charlotte Writers’ Club), The Lyricist Statewide Poetry Contest, and the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award from Kent State University. Main Street Rag published her first chapbook, After the Fairy Tale, in 2007. Praying at Coffee Shops was published in February, 2008. Maureen also writes fiction. www.maureensherbondy.com  Poetry

Wayne Ude is the author of three published books of fiction: A novel, Becoming Coyote; a collection of stories; Buffalo & Other Stories; and an award winning children's book, Maybe I will Do Something,Seven Tales of Coyote. His short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous prestigious publications.  He has taught creative writing for over seventeen years at both collegiate and university levels as well as having served as Director and Editor in many capacities during his ongoing career. He is currently the Director of the low-residency MFA program, Whidbey Writers Workshop, Whidbey Island Writers Association  on Whidbey Island, Washington. The Whidbey Island Writers Association, an organization created by writers for writers, also offers an annual writers' conference, many retreats and workshops during the year, classes, an online newsletter; the organization also published the anthology Sea of Voices, Isle of Story, edited by Celeste Mergens and Marian Blue. Fiction

Sharon Weinstein, Ph.D. has published poetry, fiction, essays, and book reviews in a wide range of national publications, including Lilith, Poetica, The Poet's Domain, Western Humanities Review, Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature, WomanWise, Ethnic Studies, and Studies in Black Literature. Her book of poems is Celebrating Absences. She received her Ph.D. in Literature at the University of Utah, and was a professor of English and Humanities at Arizona State University, Norfolk State University, and Hampton University where she held the endowed chair of University Professor.   She has received grants from the National  Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Humanities Project for Fiction. Sharon is also an artist and classical pianist with a piano teaching practice in Virginia Beach, VA.  Prose and Poetry

Michael Dylan Welch is editor of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem ( http://hometown.aol.com/welchm/Tundra.html). His poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in thirteen languages. Poetry

Leslie What writes fiction and nonfiction and received her MFA from Pacific University.  Her writing has been widely anthologized and has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Midstream, Vestal Review, Asimov's, The Clackamas Review, Fugue, Parabola, Perigee, Lilith, and The Writer. Ms. What is the recipient of several awards, including a Nebula for short fiction. Publishers Weekly says in its starred review of Leslie's new collection Crazy Love that she "drags love out of its gooey, schmaltzy rut and takes it for a joyride in this exuberant collection of 17 stories."  Prose

Susan Wiggs's life is all about family, friends...and fiction. She lives at the water's edge on an island in Puget Sound, and she commutes to her writers' group in a 17-foot motorboat. She serves as author liaison for Field's End, a literary community on Bainbridge Island, Washington, bringing inspiration and instruction from the world's top authors to her seaside community. (See www.fieldsend.org ) She's been featured in the national media, including NPR's Talk of the Nation, and is a popular speaker locally and nationally. 
According to Publishers Weekly, Wiggs writes with "refreshingly honest emotion," and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is "one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book." Booklist characterizes her books as "real and true and unforgettable." She is the recipient of three RITA (sm) awards and four starred reviews from Publishers Weekly for her books. The Winter Lodge and Passing Through Paradise have appeared on PW’s annual "Best Of" lists. Several of her books have been listed as top Booksense picks and optioned as feature films. Her novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have made national bestseller lists, including the USA Today, Washington Post and New York Times lists. The author is a former teacher, a Harvard graduate, an avid hiker, an amateur photographer, a good skier and terrible golfer, yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book. Readers can learn more on the Web at www.susanwiggs.com  and on her lively blog at www.susanwiggs.wordpress.com . Mainstream fiction/women's fiction.

Eric M. Witchey has sold over 50 short stories and a novel into national and international markets. His stories have appeared in multiple genres under several names. His how-to articles have appeared in The Writer Magazine, Writer's Digest Magazine, and other print and on-ine magazines. He has won awards and recognition from a number of organizations, including Writers of the Future, Writer's Digest, New Century Writers, and ralan.com. When not writing or teaching, he restores antique, model locomotives or tosses small bits of feather and pointy wire at laughing trout. Recent work: Dreams and Bones. Nowa Fantastyka. The Writer Magazine: How To -- "Putting the Emotion in Your Fiction." "The Hero of Kill Devil Butte." 2nd Place Writer's Digest Inspirational Category. Men Are From Mars; Women Are Intravenous" Space Squid.  www.ericwitchey.com Fiction/Nonfiction (Willing to look at longer work – see fee schedule)

Frances Wood, a professional writer for ten years, has published over 100 articles on birds and nature and continues to publish a syndicated monthly column on bird watching for local newspapers. She has written three books. Brushed by Feathers: A Year of Birdwatching in the West was recently published by Fulcrum Publishin. Her other two books are Down to Camp: A History of Summer Folk on Whidbey Island and Community at the Crossroads: A History of Bayview on Whidbey Island. Before becoming a writer and editor, Frances taught for many years. She earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees in art and teaching. Frances has painted and illustrated birds and flowers for sale and publication. She completed the Seattle Audubon's Master Birder class in 1995 and served as editor of Seattle Audubon's Earthcare Northwest for five years.  Nonfiction

Carolyne Wright's most recent collection, A Change of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006), won the 2007 Independent Book Publishers Bronze Award for Poetry. Her previous book, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (Eastern Washington UP/Lynx House Books, 2nd edition 2005), won the Blue Lynx Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Other books of poetry include Premonitions of an Uneasy Guest (AWP Award Series) and Stealing the Children (Ahsahta Press). Poetry

Susan Zwinger has written The Hanford Reach, U. of Arizona Press, The Last Wild Edge, Johnson Books, Stalking the Ice Dragon, U. of Arizona Press, Still Wild, Always Wild, Sierra Books, and co-authored Women In Wilderness, Harcourt Brace. Her first book received the Governor’s Author’s Award in 1992. She is currently teaching for the Whidbey Island Writers’ Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction, Colorado College, The Nature Conservancy and the Yellowstone National Park Institute (Poetry and Ecology). Susan is a poet and nonfiction writer, keeps elaborate illustrated journals, and teaches natural history, art and creative writing workshops across the West. She completed her PhD.