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2019 Residents Announced!
Mineral School made it to year five! In a competitive process that drew 320 applicants from throughout the United States and Canada, a panel of five Northwest writers, two filmmakers, and four artists — including three Mineral alumni — have selected a total of 20 talented writers and visual artists who will live and work in…
Meet a Resident: Meg Hartwig
Multi-media artist Meg Hartwig (’18), front and center, builds, bakes, bikes, advocates and educates. Her keen eye for detail reverberates in everything from 10-foot high art installations in public spaces to more intimate inch-long carvings of tools. Meg was Mineral School’s inaugural recipient of the Mona Lisa Roberts fellowship for an LGBTQ artist. Prior to…
Meet a Resident: Urban Waite
Urban Waite (2017), of Seattle, is a good guy who writes evil things in fiction. He was Mineral School’s first-ever Dorm Dad during summer 2018, sharing his collection of board games, good sense of humor, and with Samuel W. Gailey the stage at our visiting authors’ reading night. He is the author of The Terror…
Meet a Resident: Maxim Loskutoff
Maxim Loskutoff (2015), of western Montana, was among Mineral School’s first June Dodge fellows in 2015, joining us for the residency where local forest fires meant a mix of firefighters (including inmates) tent-camped behind the school. A graduate of New York University’s MFA program, Max has received the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Global Writing Fellowship…
Meet a Resident: Rena Priest
Rena Priest of Bellingham, Washington, writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has taught various topics in writing and the humanities at Western Washington University, Northwest Indian College, and Fairhaven College. Her poetry chapbook, Patriarchy Blues, was recently published by Moonpath Press. She was a resident at Mineral School…
Meet a Visiting Author: Neal Thompson
Neal Thompson is a journalist, man of letters, and the nonfiction author of several lauded biographies tracing the lives of adventurous men–including A Curious Man (about Robert “Believe it Or Not” Ripley), Driving With The Devil (about the bootleggers that got NASCAR started), and Light This Candle (about astronaut Alan Shepard). More recently, he turned his…
Meet a Power Volunteer: Kait Heacock
Kait Heacock, a Seattle-based fiction writer, has published stories in Esquire, Joyland, KGB Bar Lit Mag, Portland Review, Tin House, tNY.Press, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Her nonfiction has appeared in Bustle, Crab Creek Review, DAME, Largehearted Boy, Literary Hub, The Millions, and The Washington Post. An editor for Joyland and board member at Lit Crawl Seattle, she’s volunteered for Mineral School for…
Meet a Resident: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two collections of short fiction–This Life She’s Chosen and Swimming With Strangers, both published by Chronicle Books. Her fiction has appeared widely in journals, including One Story, The American Scholar, and Willow Springs, and she has work out this summer from Ploughshares Solos and this new piece in Joyland. She is the recipient of a PEN/O. Henry…
Meet a Resident: Gretchen Schrafft
Seattle fiction writer (by way of Massachusetts and Oregon) Gretchen Schrafft was in the first residency group at Mineral School in July 2015. She returned to Mineral with friend and fellow fiction author Josha Nathan this summer to present a reading and volunteer as a “dorm mother” (thank you, Gretchen!). Her work has appeared in Carve,…
Meet a Resident: Jane Wong
Seattle poet (by way of New Jersey and Iowa) and Ph.D Jane Wong is the author of Overpour (Action Books, 2016) and was in the first residency group at Mineral School in June 2015. She returned to Mineral with friend and fellow poet Michelle Penaloza in summer 2016 to present a reading. A past professor…