August 19, 2010

Michael Magee loves music, radio, and theatre. His poems and plays have been produced by KSER FM, PoetsWest; Jack Straw Productions as podcasts; as songs by the Mel/Munro Duo; Bellingham Repertory Dance Company; and in England on BBC radio. Recent poems appear in The Enigmatist, Floating Bridge Review, and the Jack Straw Writers Anthology. He won first prize in the Dancing Poetry Contest in San Francisco and lives in Tacoma.

Jean Musser was born in Akron, Ohio. As Jean Batie, she was the art critic for the Seattle Times in the late sixties. She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and studied in Zurich, Switzerland at the Jung Institute. In 1998, she edited Raven Chronicles, which won the best literary prize at Bumbershoot that summer. Her poems have appeared in Interdisciplinary Studies, Brilliant Corners, and PoetsWest Literary Magazine. She lives in University Place, Washington.