• CURRENT READERS
• PAST READERS

Keri Healey is a playwright, director, and actor living in Seattle. Her plays include DON’T YOU DARE LOVE ME, ONE TWELVE, THE IKEA CYCLE: TINY DOMESTIC DRAMAS (co-written with Bret Fetzer), PARROT FEVER (OR, LIES I'VE TOLD IN CHAT ROOMS), CHERRY CHERRY LEMON, and PENETRALIA. Her plays have been performed in Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Vail (Colorado), Adelaide (Australia), and Singapore. Keri is also the author of a collection of short stories entitled Jealous of Boys. In 2002 and 2006 she was a writer-in-residence at the Espy Foundation in Oysterville, WA. Her next play, a musical thriller about a motel lounge cover band’s murderous spree, is being developed by Printer’s Devil Theater, where she is a company member.

Rebecca Hoogs is the author of a chapbook, Grenade (2005) and her poems have appeared in Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, and others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (2004) and Artist Trust of Washington State (2005). She is the Director of Education Programs and the curator for the Poetry Series for Seattle Arts & Lectures.

Jeremy Richards is a writer, actor, and radio host living in Seattle. His work appears widely, including in “The Spoken Word Revolution Redux,” The Poetry Foundation, McSweeney's, The Morning News, Rattle, and on National Public Radio's “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered.” In tours and competitions, Richards was a two-time member of Seattle's National Poetry Slam team, a three-time winner of the Bumbershoot Poetry Slam and was invited to perform on HBO's Def Poetry. His new collection, “An Inaccurate Theory of Everything,” was recently released from Destructible Heart Press.

Ed Skoog's first book “Mister Skylight” will be published by Copper Canyon Press in the spring. His poems have appeared in Paris Review, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, and Poetry. He is currently a writer-in-residence at Richard Hugo House.