My fiction and creative nonfiction has appeared in Web Conjunctions, jubilat, Tammy, Open Letters Monthly, and other publications; I’ve also recently completed a book-length essay braiding together personal narrative and a critical consideration of Sally Rooney’s novel Conversations with Friends. I’ve been awarded residencies by Rockland Woods, Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture, […]
Amy Wheeler is a lifelong theatre artist, educator and nonprofit leader who believes in the power of the arts to connect us, and to build resilient communities through stories that spark empathy and curiosity. Amy’s plays and musicals are being produced and developed at theatres across the country. She led the renowned nonprofit Hedgebrook for […]
I am a PhD candidate at the City University of New York, Graduate Center in the Department of Art History. My area of research focuses on 19th and 20th century modernist movements across painting, photography, design, and architecture. My dissertation, “Intermedial Sachlichkeit: Intersections between Painting, Photography, Design, and Architecture in Germany, 1918–33,” explores key moments […]
I am a clinical audiologist and an adjunct faculty member at Cornish. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Speech Pathology and Audiology from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019, then my Doctorate in Audiology (AuD) at the University of Utah in May 2023. I made the move to Seattle to start my career. […]
My path to become a geographer has been appropriately circuitous, but I could start in the beginning: as a child I slept with a globe instead of a teddy bear! At times I wanted to be Indiana Jones, and at others, Leonardo DaVinci. I found geography was the best way to satisfy the scientific, analytical […]
Charles Tonderai Mudede is the Senior Staff Writer of the Stranger, and has collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes, and the most recent of which, Suburban Fury, premiered at New York Film Festival. (Police […]
I am a social scientist, writer and researcher who teaches first-year seminars and upper-division classes focused on topics such as contemporary politics, liminality, and social science and literature. My publications include White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (University of North Carolina Press, 2008) and peer-reviewed […]
Dr. Jack DeLap is a professor, ecologist, and fine artist deeply committed to education, research, and the nexus of art and science to amplify our understanding of humans and the natural world. A member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Ornithologists Society, he has co-authored journal articles on a range […]
Lauren Lavín is a writer, editor, and instructor who specializes in creative nonfiction, composition, and satire. Her work appears in Triangle House Review, Hobart, HAD, Jarnal Vol. 1 (Mason Jar Press), Sundog, The Hard Times: The First 40 Years (Mariner Books), Reductress, and elsewhere. She is the Nonfiction Editor for Western-themed literary magazine Word West […]