Originally published for OLY ARTS by Molly Gilmore. Jonah Barrett wouldn’t be insulted if anyone said their first book was monstrous. That’s because Barrett’s short-story collection Moss Covered Claws, dropping March 18, is all about monsters. Barrett of Olympia, a filmmaker, fantasy writer, and OLY ARTS contributor, is launching the book with an online reading and talk at …
South Sound Magazine recently featured Carlisle Huntington’s profiles of “smaller, independent book publishers” in the Pacific Northwest. Community engagement […] is a priority for Tacoma-based publisher Christina Butcher of Blue Cactus Press. Butcher is a Chicana poet, publisher, and veteran from New Mexico. When she’s not running the press, she works part-time at Tacoma’s favorite …
Ramiza Shamoun Koya has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Columbia Review, Lumina, Washington Square Review, and Mutha Magazine. She has been a fellow at both MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Her father was born in Fiji, her mother in Texas, and she was …
