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is the author of Slaughterhouse Five,
which became a best seller and was made into a film, which made Kurt
Vonnegut a literary celebrity. Several of his novels are now required
reading at several universities.
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is the author of Her Kind of Want
(Sept. 2002), winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction. She is the
recipient of the Prague Summer Seminars Fellowship in Fiction.
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hosts a daily five-minute radio program, The Writer's Almanac, is a frequent contributor to Time Magazine and writes a biweekly column of advice to the lovelorn for Salon, the online magazine. He is the author of eleven books, including Lake Wobegon Days (1985), The Book of Guys (1993), The Old Man Who Loved Cheese (1996), and Wobegon Boy (1997). His most recent book, Me: By Jimmy "Big Boy" Valente As Told to Garrison Keillor, was published in March of 1999.
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knows that ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. For over 30 years, his autobiographical comic book series American Splendor has elevated day-to-day existence into art. Now the HBO Films/Fine Line Feature film about his life, American Splendor,
has won the Sundance International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize,
Cannes International Film Festival Fipresci Award, and the National
Society of Film Critic's Best Picture Award and brings Pekar to the
masses, solidifying his place as a counter-culture hero
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is a critic and reporter who has contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines, including Esquire, GQ, Artforum, Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Spin, and McSweeney’s. As a columnist, she has covered education for Time, American culture for the online magazine Salon, and pop music for San Francisco Weekly, for which she won a 1996 Music Journalism Award.
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has written a number of short but harmful books including, Babies and Other Hazards of Sex; and Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States. His most recent books include Dave Barry is NOT Making This Up; Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides; Dave Barry Does Japan; Dave Barry Turns 40; Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need; and Dave Barry Talks Back.
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was
born in 1956 and grew up in a working-class Seattle neighborhood. After
a tumultuous childhood, she attended Evergreen State College where she
met her friend Matt Groening.
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is the author of seven collections of poems, including, most recently Just Waking.
He has received grant awards from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts.
He is also recipient of the Washington State Governor's Award. His
poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals,
including Harper's, Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Gettysburg Review.
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is
a 57-year-old author and family therapist. Born on July 17, 1946 in
Dayton, Ohio to a WWII bomber pilot and a homemaker, Crutcher grew up
in Cascade, Idaho (a tiny logging town north of Boise). He graduated
from Eastern Washington State College (now EWU) with a BA in psychology
and sociology. He used his degree to wander the American interstates
and to pour concrete in Texas.
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poems, stories, and critical essays are forthcoming or have appeared in Best American Poetry 1996, Alaska Quarterly, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review and numerous other national journals. His first collection of poems, Mastodon, 80% Complete was published in 2001.
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holds an MA in poetry from Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Overtime,
from Eastern Washington University Press. He has taught for the Oregon
Writers Workshop, Mountain Writers Workshop series, Mt. Hood Community
College.
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is the author of three collections of poetry: Smoke (BOA Editions, 2000), What We Carry (1994), and Awake (1990). With Kim Addonizio, she is the co-author of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasure of Writing Poetry
(1997). Among her awards are a Pushcart Prize, an Editor’s Choice III
Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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author of over a dozen poetry collections, ranks as one of America’s
best known poets. He has received two NEA fellowships, the Helen Bullis
Memorial Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and an American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. In 1998, his book The Great Bird of Love was selected for the National Poetry Series. His latest book is Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems, a substantial retrospective of his most famous work.
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is the author of three collections of short fiction: Limited Lifetime Warranty, Quake, and most recently Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2000). She has also published four collections of poems, including After a Spell, which won the 1998 Washington Governor’s Award for Literature, and the newly released Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press 2003).
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is the author of the memoir, Road Song,
published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. Her short nonfiction, poetry,
and book reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.
Her work has earned a Whiting Writer's Award, a Pushcart Prize, and
fellowships from Radcliffe College's Bunting Institute and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
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is the author of Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, and If Rock and Roll Were a Machine. He is now at work on a new novel entitled The Silk Ball and splits his time between his homes in Mankato, Minnestota, and Spokane, Washington. His website is www.terrydavis.net.
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received
his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Previously, he taught fiction
at the University of Iowa and the University of Memphis. No One But Us, his first novel, was published by Algonquin Books in 1995. Stories from his recent collection, Wonderful Tricks (Mid-List, 2002), were included in Best American Short Stories 100 Distinguished Stories of the Year (1994 and 1997).
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has
been Managing Editor of EWU Press for four years. She graduated from
EWU with a B.A. in Technical Communications and an M.A. in Publishing
with an emphasis in editorial and design.
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is the author of two poetry books. His first book, The Cheap Seats, was a finalist for Forward Magazine's Book of the Year awards. His latest book of poems is Hiding from Salesmen.
He lives with his family in Spokane, Washington where his work can be
heard every Monday morning on KPBX 91.1, Spokane Public Radio.
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is the author of four novels, including Yellowfish, and Broken Ground, and a work of nonfiction, Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound,
which was reissued in an expanded and updated edition in 1999. Short
works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in
many periodicals and anthologies.
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became a major cultural voice with his 1987 collection of essays Owning It All, which mapped the emotional terrain of the modern West. His memoir, Hole In The Sky,
was marked by questionings, qualifications, wonderings. His task was
introspection, the examined life, a cutting away of rationalizations,
self-dissection. He explained from the outset that his was a memoir of
failure. The book describes his childhood and youth farming in the
Warner Valley of southeastern Oregon, up to the point when he is thrust
out of that isolated insular Eden.
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books include Homestead, Big Bluestem, and
In This We Are Native: Memoirs and Journeys. She was co-editor of the Montana anthology, The Last Best Place, and her essays have appeared in Audubon, Outside, Modern Maturity, The New York Times, Islands, and Big Sky Journal. Her story, "It's Come To This," which won a National Magazine Award in Fiction for Story Magazine, was published in Best American Short Stories, 1992, and has been widely anthologized.
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lives in eastern Washington with his two daughters. He works as a sales
rep for an electronic security consultancy. He is the author of Caliban, published by Lost Horse Press (2002).
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was
born in the town of Milan on the Little Spokane River in eastern
Washington State, has lived in the San Juan Islands and worked in the
North Cascade Mountains for the Forest Service. He has worked on
fishing boats in Alaska and taught aboard Navy vessels in the Western
Pacific.
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was born in Madrid, Spain, and spent most of her youth moving around
the U.S. with her military family. She completed her BA at Morehead
State University in Morehead, Kentucky, and her MFA in poetry at
Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Washington.
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is author of River Street: A Novella and Stories (Southern Methodist University Press, 1994). His stories have appeared in many journals, including Georgia Review, Sewanee Review, Manoa, New Letters, Shenandoah, Black Warrior Review, Epoch, and Prairie Schooner.
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is the author of Winter Range, published by Picador USA in 2001. Her novel, Skin of the Snake, is forth coming in 2005 and her collection of short stories, Labors of the Heart, in 2006. Both will be released by St. Martin's Press.
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latest novel, As Cool As I Am, earned him an unprecedented fourth Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award. Earlier winners were his novel How All This Started, story collection Dry Rain, and memoir Indian Creek Chronicles.
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is an Associate Professor of English, discovered Helga's story while
Director of Writing at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. A
graduate of the University of Washington, she researched Helga Estby's
epic journey for her Ph.D. dissertation at Gonzaga University.
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formed Vista Press, now Eaglemont Press,
with the help of photographer and husband Loren Wengerd, to produce and
publish photography books that focus on issues relating to cultural and
wildlife conservation and preservation for all ages.
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has received awards for her teaching, as well as a Fulbright
Scholarship. Currently, she lives in Seattle and teaches children who
are undergoing cancer treatment at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center.
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formerly of Wisconsin, moved
to Spokane in 2000 and earned her MFA in poetry from Eastern Washington
University. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Hey Listen!, Redactions: Poetry and Poetics, Willow Springs, Marble and Ink Magazine.
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received his MFA in Creative Writing from EWU in 2000. He owns and operates Defunct Books in downtown Spokane.
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earned
his MFA in Creative Writing from the Inland Northwest Center for
Writers in 2003. His writings have appeared or are forthcoming in LitRag, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, and CQ: California Quarterly.
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is
Director of Grant Programs for Artist Trust. Meade coordinates and
facilitates all aspects of Artist Trust’s grant programs, including GAP
(Grants for Artist Projects) and the WSAC/Artist Trust Fellowship
program. He edits the Artist Trust Journal, offers grant writing
workshops around the state, and assists with information services.
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Vancouver,
British Columbia-based mandolin master John Reischman has assembled a
truly international West Coast band for his latest exciting foray into
the world of bluegrass music.
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Cis the author of You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend due to be released by Random House in October of 2004
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is the daughter of a high school drama teacher and a former Air Force
Chaplain. She attended the costume design program at North Carolina
school of the Arts, and now hopes to finish her degree in illustration.
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“Seasons of the Palouse” are based on the imagery of the human form and
western landscape. She currently lives and works on Whidbey
Island, Washington. Her art work will appear at a number of the main
events.
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