Writers A-L

Lenae Day

Lenae Day recreates vintage images using herself as the model and pairs them with autobiographical short stories. She has two publications: “Modern Candor” (2009) and “DAY Magazine” (2010).

Lenae Day graduated from Western Washington University in 2009 with a B.F.A. in Studio Art and a B.A. In Creative Writing. She lives alone with her three cats: Genghis Khan, Rasky Pon and Dolores Haze. She enjoys long walks on the beach and spending time with her favorite people, furry or not.

If you have any questions or comments, you can e-mail the artist at: LenaeDay@gmail.com

Patrick Dixon

Patrick Dixon is a writer and photographer. His subject matter with both crafts concentrates on man's relationship to nature, and often about the 20 years he was an Alaskan commercial fisherman. His writing consists of poetry and nonfiction essays, and though he controls the image with camera and computer, he welcomes the unexpected, always striving to creating surprising images. He has been published in Smithsonian, The Alaska Fisherman's Journal, National Fisherman, and Alaska magazine among others.

www.patrickdixon.net

Josephine Ensign

Josephine Ensign has a BA in Biology and Religion from Oberlin College and a doctorate in public health from the Johns Hopkins University. She has done postgraduate work in medical ethics at Harvard University and in narrative medicine at Columbia University. She teaches health policy and narrative medicine at the University of Washington. Since 1986 she has worked as a family nurse practitioner providing primary care to homeless populations on both coasts of the US. Through a Fulbright Fellowship she expanded her research and advocacy internationally with work in Thailand and Venezuela. Her literary non-fiction essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun, The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Silk Road Review, and Calyx. She writes two blogs “Medical Margins” on health policy and nursing (http://josephineensign.wordpress.com) and “Poetry and Prose Rounds” on narrative medicine (http://poetryprose.hsl.washington.edu). Currently she is writing a book entitled Catching Homelessness, a narrative nonfiction account of her work as a nurse practitioner providing health care to homeless people, while navigating her own passage through homelessness.

Paul Fisher

Paul Fisher is the author of Rumors of Shore, winner of the 2009 Blue Light Book Award, and is the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Fellowship in Poetry from the Oregon Arts Commission. Recent poems appear in journals such as Cave Wall, Crab Creek Review, DMQ Review, Naugatuck River Review and Nimrod International Journal, and are forthcoming in the anthology, River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st Century. Born and raised in Seattle, Paul currently lives in Bellingham with his wife, two cats and a dog. He cannot see Russia from his house.

Paul reads with Lana Hechtman Ayers and Lorraine Healy at Village Books in Bellingham on April 22 at 7:00 PM.

For more information, to read sample poems or to contact, visit his website at: www.paulfisherpoet.com.

Kim Holloway

While living as a Mississippi expat for the last 15 years, first in LA and now in Seattle, I’ve encountered many people who are curious about life in Dixie. I created a blog called “Stuff Southern People Like” to introduce folks to some of the finer aspects of Southern culture, such as boiled peanuts, funeral food, drive-thru beer barns, and big-ass churches. My next endeavor will be incorporating these vignettes into an essay collection. Additionally, my first novel Memoir of a Reluctant Homewrecker is forthcoming (although when and from whom is yet to be determined).

Except for brief stints in two restaurants and one motorcycle shop, I’ve made my living writing everything from news features to ad copy.

Since storytelling comes as naturally to me as complaining about the humidity, I’ve told a variety of true tales on stage for A Guide to Visitors. I also read cringe-worthy teenage journal entries at Seattle’s Salon of Shame and am a featured reader at their annual “Best of” show.

I’m thrilled to be part of Seattle’s thriving, eclectic arts community and consider myself blessed to know (or admire from afar) so many talented (and many-talented) people. Also, I like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain, so Seattle just makes sense.

Links
“Stuff Southern People Like” http://www.girloutofdixie.wordpress.com
Portfolio http://www.wordy-girl.com

"life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - anais nin

Heather Jacobs

Heather Jacobs holds an MFA from the International Creative Writing Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in Sin City Poetry Review, The Lumberyard, and Fugue, and was awarded Honorable Mention for the Nimrod/Katherine Anne Porter Prize and finalist for the Bellingham Review’s Tobias Wolff Award. She has received residencies from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Can Serrat in El Bruc, Spain. Most recently, she worked as a freelance editorial consultant at Sarabande Books in Louisville, Kentucky. Heather currently lives in Seattle with her husband and son, and is working on a novel and a collection of short fiction.

Loreen Lilyn Lee

Photo: Will Rose

After decades of dancing around the idea of being a writer, Loreen finally gave herself permission in 1994 to write—to write about issues personally meaningful to her. She was nearly 50 when she began writing memoir pieces based on growing up in three cultures: Chinese, American, and Hawaiian. These early years of writing were years of exploration, learning, and peeling back the layers. She wrote poetry, personal essays, short fiction, and memoir. She was living these words by Turkish writer and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk:“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside of him, and the world that makes him who he is."

In 2008, Loreen realized the writer in her needed to tell another, more deeply personal story—something she thought she could never write about or reveal. She is currently writing a memoir with a working title of Island Girl Woman. A resident of Seattle, she is an active volunteer in the Hedgebrook writing community, practices qigong and tai chi, and plays mah jongg as often as she can.
loreenll@yahoo.com