TEACHING WRITERS
& RE/VISION MENTORS
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TEACHinG writer
Jennifer Bradbury’s debut novel, Shift—which Kirkus Reviews starred, calling it “fresh, absorbing, compelling”—was picked as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and made the School Library Journal YALSA Booklist. Her most recent novel is Take. Bradbury’s previous novel, Outside In, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her book, Rock by Rock: The Fantastical Garden of Nek Chand, won the 2022 Washington State Book Award. She is also the author of the award winning books A Moment Comes, River Runs Deep, Wrapped, and the Zach and Lucy series. A current English teacher, and former one-day Jeopardy! champ, she lives in Burlington, Washington, with her family. More about Jennifer
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Stephen Hitchcock is the Executive Director and Chaplain of The Haven, a low-barrier day shelter and housing resource center in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. He received an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has appeared in Juxtaprose, Ruminate, The Midnight Oil, Geez Magazine, storySouth, Post Road, Pensive Journal, Streetlight, and elsewhere.
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Quiara Alegría Hudes' critically-acclaimed memoir My Broken Language was recently the One Book One Philadelphia citywide read. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful, Pulitzer finalist play Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, and other stage works have been produced around the globe. For the screen, Hudes adapted her Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights into a major motion picture and wrote Vivo, an animated feature, both with collaborator/composer Lin-Manuel Miranda. Her essays have appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, American Theater Magazine, and The Cut. With her cousin, Hudes founded and runs a prison writing project, Emancipated Stories.
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Charlotte Kiang is a management consultant, writer, and former rocket scientist based in Seattle. In her current role, she advises senior executives across a variety of industries on management and business strategy. Prior to becoming a management consultant, Charlotte worked as an engineer at SpaceX and wrote a science column for Forbes. She also held a journalism fellowship with AnitaB.org, which supported her efforts to increase the visibility of female scientists and engineers in the media. She has previously volunteered as a writing tutor through Let's Get Ready in Massachusetts.
TEACHinG writer
Re/vision Mentor
Matt Malyon is the founding Director of Underground Writing, and is a prison, jail, and juvenile detention chaplain in Washington. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is the author of the poetry chapbooks, During the Flood and Apocrypha. His poetry has received a Pushcart Prize nomination, and has been featured in various journals, including the University of Iowa's 100 Words, Rock & Sling, Measure, and The Stanza Project. He serves as a Mentor in the PEN Prison Writing Program, and is the founder of the One Year Writing in the Margins initiative.
TeachinG Writer
Jennifer Morison Hendrix earned her MFA in Playwriting at the University of Washington. Her play The Hunger Artists received a King County Arts Grant; and theatres in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, BC, have produced other plays, including Min Ma Mulano and The Hungry Season. She has also written content for museum exhibits, including RACE: Are We So Different? and Lucy’s Legacy: Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia. A veteran editor, she believes passionately in the Oxford comma. Currently hard at work on a new script about Guantanamo Bay and the Trail of Tears, she lives with her husband in Mount Vernon, Washington. More about Jennifer
TeachING writer
A. Muia is the founder and co-director of New Earth Recovery, a nonprofit serving those in recovery from substance use disorder, and for thirteen years she served as a chaplain to inmates at the Skagit County Jail. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Faultline, Image Journal, Raleigh Review, The Stockholm Review of Literature, West Branch, Zymbol Magazine, and the Orison Anthology. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University. More about A. Muia
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Laurie Parker is a screenwriter, film and music producer, and teacher. Since 2016 she has led writing workshops for people in the incarcerated, unhoused, undocumented, and foster youth communities. She taught screenwriting at Pacific University’s MFA Writing Program, at Hugo House in Seattle, and at the Calabash Literary Foundation in Jamaica. In 2018, she produced the Emmy Award-winning, PBS documentary, Finding Home, A Foster Youth Story. She co-wrote and produced the film and music for Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s documentary Carcel de Árboles/Prison of Trees in 2015 and his feature film Lo que soño Sebastían/What Sebastían Dreamt, both in Guatemala. More about Laurie
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Katy Scarlett is an educator, essayist, and poet from New Jersey. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MA in art history from Hunter College, CUNY. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Michigan Quarterly Review Online, Hunger Mountain Review, CRAFT, Sonora Review, and elsewhere.
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Matthew Sullivan is the author of the novel Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (Scribner), which was an IndieNext pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, and winner of the Colorado Book Award. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Spokesman-Review, Sou'wester and elsewhere, and his short stories have won the Robert Olen Butler Prize and the Florida Review Editor's Prize. Since 2003, he has been teaching writing at a community college in rural central Washington. He lives in Anacortes, where he is wrapping up a new mystery novel.
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Jeremy Voigt’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Gulf Coast, Post Road, Willow Springs, BPJ, and other magazines. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was runner up for the 2019 Discovery Poetry Prize. His manuscript, Estuary, has been a semi-finalist or finalist for the Dorset Prize, The Crab Orchard first book prize, the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes, 42 mile, Marsh Hawk book prize, and the Miller Williams prize. He lives by a large lake in western Washington.