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Seattle-based writer discusses her novel on the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam
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Hilton Als has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1989 and a staff writer there since 1994. He has been the recipient of many awards for his…
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Enduring Freedom tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two teenagers, one an American Soldier, and the other an Afghan civilian. Both lives…
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Born in El Paso, Texas, Luis J. Rodriguez grew up in Watts and East Los Angeles. A gang member and drug user at the age of twelve, by the time he turned…
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Kate Lebo is the author of the cookbook, Pie School and the poetry chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers. She's also the coeditor with Samuel…
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Tracy K. Smith's poetry collection, Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and from 2017 to 2019, she served as Poet Laureate of the United…
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Dr. Anu Taranath is a professor at the University of Washington where she teaches on global literature, identity, race, and equity. She is the author of…
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Kevin Young is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and poetry editor of The New Yorker. From…
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Claudia Rankine, a poet, essayist and professor at Yale University. Her 2014 book Citizen: An American Lyric which explores the relentless, personal…
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Kathryn Smith a poet and mixed media artist based in Spokane, WA. She is the author of the poetry collection Book of Exodus and the chapbook Chosen…