August 20, 2015

Dianne Aprile teaches at Spalding University’s MFA in Writing program and at Hugo House. She’s published four books and edited several, most recently The Book (Larkspur Press, 2014), a letter-set, hand-printed anthology of fine-art photographs with poems by twenty writers. A 2012 Artist Trust Fellow, Dianne has also received a Hedgebrook residency, two Pushcart nominations and a team Pulitzer as a journalist at Louisville, Kentucky’s The Courier-Journal. Listen to her “This I Believe” essay on silence (in her voice). Dianne produced a reading series for five years at the jazz club she and her husband co-owned in Louisville. She is also a board member for Eastside Writes.

Ann Teplick is a Seattle poet, playwright, prose writer, and teaching artist. She writes with youth at Child Study Treatment Center (Washington state psychiatric hospital), through Pongo Teen Writing, at Seattle Children’s Hospital through Writers in the Schools, and at Coyote Central, an after-school arts program for middle schools. She’s received funding from Artist Trust, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She is currently working on a collection of poems, Snapped into Fractions, that reflects her fourteen years writing poetry with youth in psychiatric hospitals.