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Join us on Wednesday, August 21 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring August’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading.
Rachel Blume is a mom and writer from the Texas Gulf Coast pursuing her MFA in Interior Alaska. With a focus in fiction, her work has appeared in Flora Fiction, Glass Mountain, Continue the Voice, and others.
Melisa Casumbal-Salazar is the child of post-1965 Tagalog-Ilokano migrants. Find her poetry in Epiphany, Hot Pink & the Nightboat anthology Permanent Record. Their poetry collection-in-progress is titled amihan & dagat eat kamayaan / the north wind & ocean eat with their hands. She’s been in queer Filipinx community since Prince stopped touring with The Revolution.
Elaine Elinson is coauthor of the prize-winning “Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California.” A former reporter with Pacific News Service and editor of the ACLU News, Elinson’s work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Nation, Ms. And elsewhere.
Karolina Letunova grew up in Western Siberia. She has an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was a Rackam Merit Fellow and a 2020-2021 Zell Postgraduate Fellow. Her work appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, The Cincinnati Review, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, among others. Her short stories and novel-in-progress have been recognized with fellowships, grants, and residencies from the California Arts Council, Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe, The de Groot Foundation, Ragdale, VCCA, Good Hart Artist Residency, and Monson Arts.
Caron Levis (MFA; LMSW) is the author of several star reviewed and award winning picture books including the Feeling-Friends collection: Mighty Muddy Us, Feathers Together, This Way, Charlie and Ida, Always which the New York Times Book Review calls, “an example of children’s books at their best.” Other titles include: Stop That Yawn! and Mama’s Work Shoes. She is the Coordinator and a Professor for The New School’s Writing for Children/YA MFA program. Caron uses a blend of drama and writing to create interactive SEL/literacy skills workshops for children and adults. Writing short things takes her a long time. Caron is so grateful to Storyknife for inviting her to migrate from NYC to the wonder of Homer. www.caronlevis.com
Doreen Oliver is an actor, writer, and speaker. Her award-winning solo show, EVERYTHING IS FINE UNTIL IT’S NOT, broke a record for the fastest sell-out in the NY Fringe Festival’s 20-year history. A 2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, Doreen’s essays about race, autism, and life’s contradictions have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Audible, The Root, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Yale University, the Atlantic Theater Company’s Acting Conservatory, and Stanford Graduate School of Business. www.doreenoliver.com
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