Students

Kelli Lage (2028): Assistant Poetry Editor, Bracken Magazine; High School Editor and Student Liaison, Iowa Poetry Association.

Mark Strohschein (2028): Board Member, Skagit Valley Poetry Foundation.

Alumni

Jessica Barksdale (2015): Organizer, Literature Week, Diablo Valley College.

Nancy Canyon (2007): Guest Author, Village Books Writer’s Salon; Panelist, Chuckanut Writers Conference; Organizer and Editor, CanyonWriter Press; Publisher, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Words, Canyonwriter Press; teaches Wild Mind Writing through Community Education at Whatcom Community College.

Chelsey Clammer (2016): Creative Writing Instructor, WOW! Women on Writing.

Hannah Comerford (2019): Poetry Editor, Fathom Magazine. 

megan e. connolly (2025): Prose Reader, The Adroit Journal.

Amy Cook (2025): Editorial Assistant, CRAFT.

Kate Carroll de Gutes (2010): Reviews Editor, Fourth Genre; Cofounder, Incite: Queer Writers Read; Advisory Council, Storyknife Writers Retreat.

Sydney Elliott (2015): Editor, Community College Humanities Review; Managing Editor, Fireweed: Poetry of Oregon.

Elissa Favero (2024): Nonfiction Editor, The Hopper.

Kathleen Flenniken (2007): Board Member, Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Cate Gable (2016): Founding Team Member, Rancho Linda Vista Writers Workshop; Committee Member, Watershed Press.

Nancy Geyer (2013): Art Editor, Terrain.org.

Mike Gosalia (2022): Founding Editor in Chief, The Tomahawk Creek Review.

Bernard Grant (2016): Associate Fiction Editor, Tahoma Literary Review.

Ned Hayes (2015): Founder, Oly Arts.

Katrina Hays (2010): Regional Editor, Fireweed: Poetry of Oregon.

Erin Coughlin Hollowell (2009): Executive Director, Storyknife Writers Retreat; Director, Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference.

Marianne Janack (2021): Editor in Chief, Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy.

Jill McCabe Johnson (2008): Editor in Chief, Wandering Aengus Press and Trail to Table Press.

Lita Kurth (2009): Cofounder, Flash Fiction Forum.

Eric Lochridge (2025): Associate Poetry Editor, Okay Donkey.

Hannah D. Markley (2023): Volunteer Screener, Ploughshares.

Jonathan Maule (2019): Contributing Poetry Reviewer, RHINO Reviews.

Meghan McClure (2013): Editorial Board Member, Floating Bridge Press.

Carol McMahon (2016): Community Outreach, Bloom: Rochester Poetry Project.

Ann Quinn (2018): Poetry Editor, Yellow Arrow Journal; Faculty, The Writer’s Center in Bethesda.

Ian Ramsey (2015): Founder and Director, The Kauffmann Program in Environmental Writing and Wilderness Exploration.

Julie Riddle (2009): Editor, Whitworth Today; Nonfiction Editor, Wandering Aengus Press and Trail to Table Press.

Michael Schmeltzer (2007): Editor in Chief, Floating Bridge Press.

Tina Schumann (2009): Poetry Editor, Wandering Aengus Press and Trail to Table Press.

Bucket Siler (2016): Founder and Organizer, Santa Fe Zine Fest.

Jen Soriano (2018): Contributing Editor, Slag Glass City.

Billie Swift (2016): Owner, Open Books: A Poem Emporium.

David Taylor (2023): Organizer, New Deal Arts and California Stories, L.A. Public Library; Co-creator, The People’s Recorder.

Dawn Terpstra (2025): Founding Member, Poetry Palooza; Poetry Editor, River Heron Review.

Janna Wagner (2025): First Reader, The Forge Literary Magazine.

Faculty

Kelli Russell Agodon (2007): Cofounder and Editor, Two Sylvias Press; Codirector, Poets on the Coast: A Writing Retreat for Women.

Barrie Jean Borich: Editor, Slag Glass City.

Wendy Call: Juror, First Translation Prize, American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), 2026.

Jasminne Mendez (2019): Cohost, Ink Well; Cocreator, Women Who Submit chapter in Houston, TX.

Brian Teare: Editor and Publisher, Albion Books.