Monday, 14 May 2018
The open mike starts at 8:00 (with sign-up prior to that). Holly will come on between 8:40 and 8:50 and give us 20 minutes or so of work.
HOLLY J. HUGHES is the author of Sailing by Ravens (University of Alaska Press, 2014), co-author of The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World (Skinner House Press, 2012), and editor of the award-winning anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press, 2009). Her fine art chapbook Passings (Expedition Press, 2016) received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2017.
Hughes is a recipient of a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship and residencies at Hedgebrook, Centrum, Artsmith, the Anderson Center and the Vermont Studio Center. She taught writing for more than 25 years at Edmonds Community College, where she directed the Convergence Writer’s Series. She also spent over thirty summers working on the water in Alaska commercial fishing for salmon, skippering a 65-foot schooner and working as a naturalist on ships.
She currently serves on the staff of the low-residency MFA program Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, teaches writing and mindfulness workshops, and consults as a writing coach. She divides her time between a home in the Chimacum valley and a small log cabin built in the 30s in Indianola. Beginning next fall, she’ll be renting out her Indianola writing studio/cottage for writing retreats!
Stay tuned for more information: http://hollyjhughes.com/