October 20, 2022

Janée J. Baugher is the author of the only guidebook of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction (McFarland), as well as two ekphrastic poetry collections, Coördinates of Yes (Ahadada Books) and The Body’s Physics (Tebot Bach). A current assistant editor at Boulevard, she’s been featured on Seattle Channel TV and at the Library of Congress. Visit her at www.JaneeBaugher.com.

Mary Ellen Talley’s poems have recently been published in Banshee, Beir Bua, The Plague Papers, and Ekphrastic Review as well as in several anthologies. Her poems have received three Pushcart nominations and in 2020 Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, Postcards from the Lilac City. She resides in Seattle and spent years working with students and words as a speech-language pathologist in Seattle Public Schools.