Authors 
Young Adult novelist and poet, Beth Cooley lives in Spokane and teaches at Gonzaga University. Her books include Ostrich Eye and Shelter.
Emily Gwinn lives in Spokane where she teaches, writes, mothers, and makes attempts at gardening. She is the Assistant Executive Director for the LiTFUSE Poets' Workshop in Tieton, Washington. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. Her poems...
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Kate Peterson earned an MFA from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, where she works as an adjunct professor, a regional coordinator for Poetry Out Loud, and a Writers' Center responder. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Glassworks, Baldhip, The Sierra Nevada...
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Laura Read is Spokane’s second poet laureate, appointed to the position October, 2015. She is the author of the chapbook The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You and the collection Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral, which won the 2011 AWP Donald Hall Prize...
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Connie Wasem Scott is the chair of the English department at Spokane Falls Community College, where she teaches literature, composition, and creative writing classes. She is also the faculty advisor of the SFCC literary magazine The Wire Harp. She previously taught at the University...
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Ellen Welcker has collaborated with visual artists, other writers, and as part of several multi-genre productions, including 2016's Terrain's Uncharted, a collaboration with the Spokane Symphony that reimagined the classic "Peter and the Wolf," and 2018's performance of her chapbook...
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Maya Jewell Zeller is the author of the book Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press, 2011) and the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press, 2015); other essays and poems appear widely. Maya teaches writing for Gonzaga University, Central Washington University, and the Community Colleges...
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