November 15, 2012

Lyn Coffin is a widely published poet, fiction writer, playwright, and translator. She is also an actor with EffectiveArts, a professional acting troop, and literary manager for DramaQueen. Ten of Lyn’s books have been published, and her plays have been produced on Off Off Broadway, and in Singapore, Malaysia, Boston, Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Seattle. One of Lyn’s stories appeared in the 1979 Best American Short Stories, edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Her two latest books of translation, White Picture (Orten) and Still Life with Snow (Barbakadze), are available on Amazon.

Judith Roche is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Wisdom of the Body, an American Book Award winner, also nominated for a Pushcart. She has published widely in journals and magazines, and has poems installed on several Seattle area public art projects, including installations at the Brightwater Treatment Plant in King County. She has written extensively about native salmon and edited First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific and has salmon poems installed at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Seattle. She has been Distinguished Northwest Writer-in-Residence at Seattle University, has taught at Cornish College of the Arts, and currently teaches at Richard Hugo House and around the state for the Washington State Humanities Commission’s “Inquiring Mind” series.