November 20, 2014

Jourdan Keith has been awarded fellowships from Wildbranch, Santa Fe Science Writing workshop, VONA, Hedgebrook, and Jack Straw. She received funding from Artist Trust, 4Culture, and Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs for her choreopoem, “The Uterine Files,” and “Coyote Autumn,” a memoir. Seattle Poet Populist emerita, she is a storyteller and student of Sonia Sanchez. Her work is included in the anthologies: Dismantle, Something to Declare, and Ma-Ka:Diasporic Juks, and in Orion and YES! magazines.

Felicia Gonzalez was born in Cuba. A Hedgebrook alumna and curator for the 2014 Jack Straw Writers Program, her writing has received numerous awards, including an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission fellowship. A poet and short fiction writer, Felicia is currently working on a collection of interrelated short stories, Swimming in Mercury, exploring the relationship of language to identity, which received support from 4Culture and Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.

Photo credit: Libby Lewis Photography