Join us on Thursday, September 19 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring September’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading
Arumandhira is a queer Blasian poet, musician, and creative marketer born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia (now surviving in Los Angeles, California). A Kundiman Poetry Fellow, she has work published or forthcoming in Honey Literary, The Boiler, The Offing,Wax Nine Journal, BRUISER Mag, and SWWIM.
Katrina Carrasco is queer and Latina, with roots in Southern California and home in Seattle, Washington. She has published nonfiction and short stories, as well as two historical novels set in the Pacific Northwest. Katrina is working on a new contemporary novel while at Storyknife.
Melissa Horner was born and raised in Montana, is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation, a descendant of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and has settler lineages including German and English. Melissa is currently working on her PhD in the sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations.
Kalehua Kim is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi poet living in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, and ‘Ōiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal. Her first poetry collection, Mele, is forthcoming from Trio House Press in July, 2025.
Reema Rao-Patel is a fiction writer from Chicago. A Best of the Net finalist, a Wigleaf Top 50 longlister, and a Pushcart Prize nominee, her work appears in The Los Angeles Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Witness, So To Speak, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband, son, and pup.
Selene Ross is an audio storyteller and writer. Her stories have aired on Radiotopia’s The Kitchen Sisters, KALW, NPR, and her writing appears in Literary Hub and Terrain.org. In both sound and story, her work explores questions of identity and wilderness. She teaches writing and storytelling at Portland Community College and Oregon State University.
Storyknife Writers Retreat 