November 17, 2011

Susan Casey participated in Seattle’s 2006 Jack Straw Writers Program and won second place in the 2008 Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Poetry Contest. Her work appears in the Rose Alley Press anthologies Many Trails to the Summit (2010) and Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range (2006) as well as in Many Mountains Moving, Bayou, Crab Creek Review, and other journals. She teaches English at Seattle Central Community College and the University of Washington.

John Wesley Horton recently stopped going by the name Johnny Horton to avoid confusion between himself and the 1950s rockabilly singer. He’s won a GAP grant from Washington Artist Trust and was recently a runner-up for a literary fellowship. His first book manuscript, A New World We Can Stand to Live In, was recently a finalist in the National Poetry Series. He has poems recently out or forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Notre Dame Review, Malpais Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and the anthology City of Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry (U. of Iowa Press). John is also codirector of the University of Washington’s summer creative writing program in Rome.