July 17, 2008

Cody Walker is a writer-in-residence at the Richard Hugo House. He also teaches English at the University of Washington and poetry through Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers in the Schools program. His work appears in Best American Poetry, Parnassus, Slate, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. In 2007 he was elected Seattle Poet Populist. His first book, Shuffle and Breakdown, will be published by Waywiser Press in the fall of 2008.

Molly Tenenbaum is the author of Now (Bear Star Press, 2007), By a Thread (Van West & Co, 2000), and of the chapbooks Blue Willow, Old Voile, and Story. A 2007 Hedgebrook resident and participant in the 2007 Jack Straw Writers Program, she plays old-time stringband music with two bands, The Queen City Bulldogs and Dram County. Her old-time banjo CD is Instead of a Pony. She lives in Seattle, teaching music in the living room and English at North Seattle Community College.