November 21, 2013

Janée J. Baugher is the author of two collections of poetry, The Body’s Physics (Tebot Bach, 2013) and Coördinates of Yes (Ahadada Books, 2010). She has received awards from the Jack Straw Foundation, Lerman Trust, and The Island Institute of Sitka, and was a 2008–2010 Humanities Washington Inquiring Minds Speaker. Her nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have been published in Boulevard, Nano Fiction, Verse Daily, and Portland Review. Baugher’s performance venues include Bumbershoot Arts Festival and the Library of Congress. Currently she is an associate editor for StringTown literary magazine, and she teaches literature at University of Phoenix.

Ann Spiers is the first poet laureate of Vashon Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Her most recent chapbook is Bunker Trail (Finishing Line Press, 2013). These poems relate a year of seasons in a beach cabin on Vashon Island’s Bunker Trail. Previous chapbooks include Tide Turn, Volcano Blue, and A Wild Taste (May Day); Long Climb into Grace (FootHills); The Herodotus Poems (Brooding Heron); and What Rain Does (Egress Studio). Spiers leads workshops on writing poem cycles and on the art/craft of chapbooks. Her MA in literature and creative writing is from the University of Washington. Visit her webpage http://annspiers.com.