Carol Anne Modena

I come to poetry from a life-long fascination with words. My father had an impressive vocabulary and my mother could spell all his words - correctly.

Carol Anne Modena

As a kid, I loved sneaking words like vermillion into conversations. As a teacher and education program manager in upstate New York, I tried to follow Strunk & White's advice to omit needless words. Now I get to play with words, ask them what they'd like to say, decorate the pages with them.

Nancy Taylor

I've been writing poetry for over a decade since retiring from a 30 year career in nursing. I love sharing the Pacific Northwest with the firs and cedars!

Anne Murphy

When I followed the small creek, called a branch, I grew up by to its union with a bigger creek, I thought I had made the penultimate discovery of my life. I told Dad who plopped me in the old MG for a ride to where that bigger creek emptied into the Ohio River. He brought out a map to plot the course of the Ohio to the Mississippi, the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf into the Atlantic Ocean. I was ecstatic. My foot dangling in the kid-sized branch stirred water that would end up in the Atlantic Ocean and swirl over to Europe and who knows where. This fascination with moving water’s connectivity led to a career in community education and conservation.

Adelia Ritchie

A long-time denizen of the Pacific Northwest, Adelia Ritchie is a scientist, educator, artist, and writer. Her poems have been published in Poetry Corners 2018 and 2019, What Rough Beast, and in Salish Magazine, where she is a contributing editor.

Steven F. Kruger

I feel involved in the effects of say the translucency of watercolor vs. the opaque form one would find in soldate ceramics. That said, there is a certain fluidity or plasticity I find myself to always be working towards.

Neus Figueras

I’m a marine scientist, an ocean advocate, and a writer.

My project “I’m With Lorac” (https://imwithlorac.com/) engages teens and adults in protecting the ocean through storytelling because people don’t act by reason alone, but when they become emotionally involved with a story or a character, they are more willing to make a difference.

Cotah Lyn Rose

I am a swimmer and I swim with words.

Joshua W. Scott

I am a poet/singer/songwriter who uses words to create pictures.