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new collection of non-fiction, Troubled Intimacies, has just appeared from Oregon State University Press; also, a chapbook of poems,
The Chronicles of the Withering State, has just been published by Ice River Press. Other essays and poems have appeared recently in
Alaska Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Cimarron Review, Kenyon Review, Luna, Quarterly West.
He is the recipient of the 2003 Kay Deeter Poetry Award. A new collection of his poems, The Cartographer's Melancholy, won the
2005 Spokane Poetry prize and will appear from EWU Press in 2005.
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is a legendary poet and international bestseller.
His works include Iron John: A Book About Men and Morning Poems, a collection of poems that revisits the western Minnesota
farm country of Bly's boyhood with marvelous wit and warmth. Bly will read from a collection of his work spanning more than 40 years,
during his festival appearance. His recent books include What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? Collected Prose Poems, Meditations on the
Insatiable Soul and Eating the Honey of Words.
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literary non-fiction book, Waiting for Rain: A Farmer's Story was published by Algonquin Books in 1992, and his poems have
appeared recently in Willow Springs, Poet Lore, and The Seattle Review. His education emphasized contemporary
and romantic literature and creative writing, and he works as an English professor at Gonzaga University.
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teaches creative writing at Washington State University. He is the author of the nonfiction book,
Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa (University of Georgia Press, 1999), and his essays and short stories have appeared in
The American Scholar, The North American Review, Ascent, Gulf Coast, Creative Nonfiction,
Clackamas Literary Review, The North Dakota Quarterly, Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere.
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novel Ostrich Eye (Delacorte Press, 2004) won the Delacorte Prize for First Young Adult Novel.
A second novel is currently under contract with Delacorte. Along with YA fiction, she has published poetry in
Poet Lore, Talking River Review, Roanoke Review, ReDaction, Mid-American Review and other magazines.
She has been a visiting author with Get Lit! 's Writers in the Schools Day and Authors Tour of Rural Schools.
Beth lives in Spokane with her family and teaches English literature and writing at Gonzaga University.
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Humor, not academics carried HarperCollins author
through his childhood in Cascade, Idaho and his advanced educational pursuits at EWU, including a teaching credential.
"I should fear retaliatory acts from the students I taught geography," he says. "But they'll never find me because I
taught them geography." Eleven published books later, humor and the voice of an expert storyteller have made Crutcher
one of the most sought after speakers in his field. Recipient of Writer magazine's 2004 Writers Who Make A Difference Award,
the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association award, the ALA's Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime
Achievement Award and dozens of other regional and national honors.
Chris Crutcher opened to a very enthusiastic reception for Dave Barry at Get Lit! 2004.
For the 2005 festival, he will read at the David Sedaris event.
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first novel Winter Range (Picador, USA) was named among the best books of 2000 by the Washington Post,
Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today. It received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and the
Mountain and Plains Award for Best Fiction in 2000. Season of the Snake, her new novel just released in
March 2005 (St. Martins), is quickly gathering critical acclaim. Her short story collection,
Labors of the Heart will be published by St. Martins Press in 2006. Davis also co-edited an anthology with
Kim Barnes, titled: True Stories from the Midlife Underground: women over forty write about love, life, sex and aging,
to be published by Doubleday in Spring 2006. Davis lives in Lewiston, Idaho, where she teaches creative writing at
Lewis-Clark State College.
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was born in the town of Milan on the Little Spokane River in eastern Washington and has lived in at least 24 communities within the state.
He taught high school English, directed a play, and is the father of seven children.
"Tom Davis is a poet of rare gifts, and The Little Spokane is a singular book, overflowing its banks with wisdom and love."--Dennis Held
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is the author of seven full-length poetry collections, including Blue Dusk (Copper Canyon, 2001), winner of the 2002 Lenore Marshall
Poetry Prize and a Washington Book Award, and two chapbooks, as well as two non-fiction books about convent life. She has received a Guggenheim
Fellowship in Poetry and a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts. DeFrees is a former Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, where
she was known for many years as Sister Mary Gilbert. After receiving a B.A. degree from Maryhurst College and an M.A. from the University of Oregon,
she taught at Holy Names College in Spokane from 1950 to 1967. She also taught at the University of Montana, in Missoula, from 1967 to 1979, and
later retired in Seattle. Madeline DeFrees will be reading at Get Lit!'s An Evening of Poetry.
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served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995,
the youngest person and the first African-American to receive this highest official honor of American letters. The Pulitzer-prize winning poet will
talk about her life and read from her latest book of poems, American Smooth, during her festival appearance. Dove has also published short
stories, novels, poetry collections, is a playwright and received the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award.
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is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana.
She teaches at the University of Montana in the Creative Writing Program. She has published fiction and essays in numerous anthologies and journals
including The Last Best Place, Talking Leaves: An Anthology of Native American Writers, The Best of Northern Lights,
Circle of Women, Reinventing the Emeny's Language, and Ploughshares. In 2003, her novel Perma Red won the American Book Award,
the WILLA award, the Spur Award, and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Award.
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has earned dozens of awards over the span of his
30-year career with National Public Radio (NPR). This legendary broadcast journalist will talk about his career and new book, Edward R. Murrow
and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism at his festival appearance. Host of NPR's Morning Edition for 25 years, Edwards helped make the show
the most-listened-to program in public radio, attracting more than 13 million listeners each week.
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is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has been a health and science writer for Newsday and a science correspondent
for NPR. She is the only person to have received all of the top four awards in American journalism:
the Pulitzer Prize (for which she has three times been a finalist), the George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award, the George C. Polk Award, and
three times honored by the Overseas Press Club of America. She is the author of The Coming Plague, a 1995 national bestseller, and
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health.
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is an award winning essayist and poet who teaches literature and creative nonfiction at Central Washington University.
He is the author of Augury, Waiting for the Earth to Turn Over and the forthcoming Because I Don't Have Wings.
His book Away Awhile was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
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's seventh book of poems, The Night Breeze Off the Ocean,
has just been published by EWU Press. His fourth book, Love's Answer, won the Iowa Poetry Prize for 1994. He has received three NEA
grants in poetry and two Pushcart prizes. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
For Get Lit! 2005, Michael Heffernan will read at the David Sedaris event and facilitate a poetry workshop.
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is a poet, essayist and teacher of writing. He is the author of Betting on the Night, and his entry on fiction writer
David Long recently appeared in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Held's essays have been published in
Poets & Writers and The Bloomsbury Review. His awards include the American Academy of Poets Prize, the
Wilderness Essay Award from the University of Idaho, and the Fuller Poetry Prize, among others. Held makes stuff up all the time.
Sometimes, on purpose.
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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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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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lives with her husband in a little farming town of 830 people on the eastern side of the state of Washington,
just two miles from Idaho. She started writing for publication in 1989. She credits taking the Institute of Children's Literature's
"Writing for Children" correspondence course and joining SCBWI for her writing success. Verla is the Regional Advisor for the Inland
Empire SCBWI Region of East Washington/North Idaho.
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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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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 Associate professor of English at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. Her poems have appeared in many journals and magazines,
including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Criterion, Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture,
Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Primavera, and Poetry Northwest. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize in 2002.
Her poems also were nominated for the Pushcart in 2000 and 2002. Her first collection, The Fork Without Hunger, is forthcoming from
CavanKerry Press, Spring 2005.
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has been a free-lance book designer for 35 years. He designs and shepherds through the production process books of visual art,
poetry, essays, history, and photography for small publishers as well as nonprofit organizations focused on art, history, and the environment.
Laursen also designs large-scale typography in granite, bronze, and stainless steel for public art projects.
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earned degrees from The University of Illinois, The University of New Hampshire, and The New School. From 1998 to 2000,
he was Fiction Editor of Lit, a journal in New York. He has taught at Oakland University, UMass/Lowell and
Suffolk Community College on Long Island, and currently teaches at Eastern Washington University. His stories have
appeared in The Quarterly, StoryQuarterly, Manoa, Other Voices, Cimarron Review,
Post Road, and Art Savant. His novel, Safe in Heaven Dead was published in 2003 by HarperCollins,
and, in 2004 was honored with an "Outstanding Literary Achievement Award" by the Wisconsin Library Association.
Currently at work on his second novel, he lives with his wife and two children in Spokane. He is the editor of
Willow Springs, a literary journal affiliated with Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center for Writers.
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an English professor at Eastern Washington University, teaches courses in American literature and nature writing.
He has won awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Society of Professional Journalists; has published more than one hundred
and fifty edited books, book chapters, journal articles, essays, columns, reviews, and poems (and given more than one hundred invited
lectures, conference papers, and readings) on the subjects of literature and culture in America; and is a charter member of the
Editorial Board of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
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first collection of poetry, Dare Say, in 2002 won the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series.
He has published a collection of his interviews with contemporary poets, Range of the Possible, and in 2005,
Range of Voices, an accompanying anthology of poetry by the interviewed poets, will be published by
Eastern Washington University Press. In 2003, Marshall was selected as the Wilson Visiting Poet at Albion College
in Albion, Michigan, a distinction previously given to poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Gary Snyder, Stephen Spender, and
Galway Kinnell. Marshall earned an MFA degree from Eastern Washington University and a PhD from the University of Kansas.
He lives in Spokane, Washington, and teaches at Gonzaga University.
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is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University,
where she teaches Environmental Ethics and the Philosophy of Nature. She is best known as the author of nature essays that explore our cultural
and spiritual connections to the natural world--Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World,
and her most recent book The Pine Island Paradox. She is at work on a new book about the moral significance of wonder. At OSU, Moore directs
the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. Learn more about Moore and her writing via her Web site
(www.riverwalking.com). At Get Lit! 2005, Moore is opening for Bob Edwards.
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is the bestselling Canadian author of more than 40 children's books.
He is perhaps best known in the U.S. for his 1986 book, Love You Forever. His latests release is a CD of 12 of his favorite children's
stories, Love You Forever - The Best of Robert Munsch. Munsch will entertain children and their families with his storytelling magic at
the free KPBX/Get Lit! Kids' Concert.
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has written thirteen notable books for children and young adults. Her newest book is the picture book
I Am Sacajawea, I Am York: Our Journey West with Lewis and Clark. Upcoming projects include the picture book
Children of Alcatraz: Stories from the Rock and a young adult novel set in the Alaskan gold rush at the turn
of the century. Formerly a secondary language arts teacher, Claire writes and teaches creative writing workshops in
Spokane. The history of the American west and her two children Conor and Megan and their friends inspire Claire's writing.
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is the author of numerous humorous voluminous collections children's verse, including his newest book,
When the Teacher Isn't Looking. His poems have appeared in many anthologies of funny poetry for kids,
including Scholastic's recent book, My Dog Does My Homework, for which he penned the title poem.
He writes the popular children's poetry Web site www.poetry4kids.com,
and visits schools coast to coast sharing the magic of poetry with kids, teacher and parents.
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writes essays about the land, as well as poetry and fiction,
from his home on a tributary of the Lower Columbia River. His fifteen books include Wintergreen (winner of the John Burroughs Medal, PNBA,
and Governor's awards), Where Bigfoot Walks (subject of a Guggenheim Fellowship), The Thunder Tree, Chasing Monarchs,
Walking the High Ridge, Nabokov's Butterflies, and The Butterflies of Cascadia. A seasonal pastorale, a collection of
poems, and a novel are all stumbling toward completion. Though generally free-lance, Pyle served as visiting professor of creative writing
at Utah State University in 2002, and he is currently the Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana.
His essay-column, The Tangled Bank, appears in each issue of Orion Magazine.
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is a poet, translator and author who has been teaching
poetry writing in Oregon, Washington and Nevada schools since 1982. Four books and nine chapbooks of his poetry have been published,
as well as four books of his translations, including the lyrical Poemas de la isla (Island Poems) by Canary Island poet
Josefina de la Torre (EWU Press, 2000). At the Edge of the Western Wave is his latest book. He is at work on a series of short prose
pieces which recount his life in Panama from 1953-56. Additionally, he is a book editor and publisher, and writes freelance reviews
of poetry books for the Willamette Week newspaper. When he's not traveling or staying in his cottage in Ireland, he lives in Portland, Oregon.
For Get Lit! 2005, Carlos Reyes will read at the Salman Rushdie event and facilitate a workshop on teaching poetry in schools.
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is a scantily published poet who nevertheless loves to teach.
He has taught writing and literature courses at Whitworth College in the evening studies program for 10 years. Steve specializes in the
study of memoir and autobiography and has taught college courses in memoir, poetry, Pacific Northwest writers and on biblical literature.
For Get Lit! 2005, Steve will participate on a panel and facilitate a writing workshop about memoir.
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is the author of The Satanic Verses,
which was deemed sacrilegious by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni and in 1989 prompted Rushdie to go into hiding for nine years. Other novels
include Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Rushdie will read from his most
recent book, Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction, 1992-2002, at his festival appearance.
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is an author, playwright, satirical commentator
for National Public Radio and retired Macy's elf. In his latest book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he covers everything
from attending his brother's wedding to selling drinks at a state fair. The author of bestsellers Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice,
Sedaris has also published collections of personal essays Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day. His essays appear regularly in
Esquire and The New Yorker.
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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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is an award-winning poet
as well as a novelist, teacher, editor, and reviewer whose work has appeared in eight full-length volumes of poetry, most recently the award-winning
Shooting Script: Door of Fire [Eastern Washington University Press]. Tremblay edited Colorado Review for 15 years, and is the
recipient of the John F. Stern Distinguished Professor award for his thirty years teaching in and directing the MFA in Creative Writing Program
at Colorado State University. For Get Lit! 2005, Tremblay will read during An Evening of Poetry.
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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 three critically acclaimed novels,
Citizen Vince (2005), Land of the Blind (2003), and Over Tumbled Graves (2001), as well as the nonfiction book
Every Knee Shall Bow (1995). Among his books are a New York Times notable book of the year and a finalist for the
PEN Center West literary nonfiction award. As a journalist, he was part of a team that was a runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize in 1992;
his work has appeared in Newsweek, The Washington Post and The New York Times. He also writes short stories, essays and screenplays,
and was the co-author of Christopher Darden's 1996 bestseller In Contempt. His books have been published in ten countries
and eight languages. He lives with his family in Spokane, Washington.
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John Whalen is the author of Caliban, published by Lost Horse Press (2002). His poems have appeared in such journals as the
Virginia Quarterly Review, Yellow Silk, The Hollins Critic, Willow Springs, and CutBank.
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