November 16, 2023

Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, creative nonfiction, science, history, and fiction, and a long-time independent teacher of writing. Her seventh book is Dancing with the Muse in Old Age (Coffeetown, 2022). Her two poetry books are Holy Magic (MoonPath Press) and Crossing Over: Poems (University of New Mexico Press). Her awards include a National Magazine Award and ten of her essays have been honored as “notable” in various years of Best Essays. Visit https://www.priscillalong.net.

Bethany Reid’s stories, essays, and poems have recently appeared in One Art, Quartet, Poetry East, Chautauqua, Passengers, Adelaide, Kithe, Descant, Peregrine, and Catamaran. Her poetry book, Sparrow, won the 2012 Kenneth and Geraldine Gell Award. Her fourth full-length collection of poems, The Pear Tree: Elegy for a Farm, won the 2023 Sally Albiso Award. She lives in Edmonds, Washington, and blogs about writing and life at http://www.bethanyareid.com.