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Claire Boyles (she/her) is the author of (W.W. Norton 2021), longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection and winner of the High Plains Book Award in Fiction. Her debut novel is due out from W.W. Norton in 2026. She is the recipient of a 2022 Whiting Award. Her writing has appeared in VQR, Kenyon Review, Boulevard, Masters Review, and Sierra Magazine among others. She was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops and has received support from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation, the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Workshop, and the Community of Writers. She is also a screenwriter. A former sustainable farmer, she lives with her family in Colorado and is at work on a novel forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Find her at .
Allison Cobb (she/her) is the author of four books: (Nightboat Books 2021), winner of the Oregon Book Award and CLMP’s Firecracker Award for creative nonfiction; (Nightboat Books 2018); After We All Died (Ashata Press 2016); and Born2 (Chax Press 2004). Cobb鈥檚 work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, and many other journals. She has been a resident artist at Djerassi and Playa and received fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In addition to teaching at 91传媒, Allison works at Environmental Defense Fund and serves on the board of Fonograf Editions. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Find her at .
Laura Da鈥� is a poet and teacher who studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is the author of (U Arizona P 2015), an American Book Award winner; (U Arizona P 2018), a Washington State Book Award winner; and the forthcoming (U Arizona P 2025). Da鈥� is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and The Native Arts and Culture Foundation. She is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Redmond and Poet Planner for King County, Washington. Da鈥� is Eastern Shawnee and she lives near Renton, Washington with her family. Find her at .
Megan Kruse grew up in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Olympia. She studied creative writing at Oberlin College and earned her MFA at the University of Montana. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and her debut novel is (Hawthorne Books 2015), with an introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert. In addition to teaching fiction in 91传媒鈥檚 Low-Residency MFA program, she teaches at Hugo House and Gotham Writers鈥� Workshop. She was the recipient of a 2016 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and was one of the National Book Foundation鈥檚 鈥�5 Under 35鈥� for 2015. Find her at
Melissa Matthewson holds an MFA in nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. She is the author of a memoir-in-essays, (Split/Lip Press 2019), a finalist for the 2021 Oregon Book award, and her second essay collection, is forthcoming from punctum books in 2026. Her nonfiction has appeared in Guernica, Oregon Humanities, Longreads, American Literary Review, River Teeth, DIAGRAM, Mid-American Review, The Rumpus, among other publications and anthologies. She has been awarded an AWP Intro Journals award in creative nonfiction as well as residencies and scholarships to Sundress Academy for the Arts, PLAYA, Art Smith, Tin House, and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers鈥� Conference. She lives in Ashland, Oregon with her two children and also teaches at Southern Oregon University. Find her at .
Molly Reid is the author of the short story collection (BOA 2019). Her writing has appeared on NPR and in the journals TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, Witness, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, and Lit Hub, among others. She has received fellowship and residency support from the Sewanee Writers鈥� Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers鈥� Conference, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Anderson Center, the Ucross Foundation, I-Park, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was previously the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. Find her at .
Eliot Treichel’s books are the young adult novel (Ooligan Press 2015) and the story collection (Ooligan Press 2012). He is the recipient of a Reading the West Award, the Oregon Book Awards Readers鈥� Choice Award, and the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award. His aim is to create transformational courses where students see their education as an authentic opportunity for personal, professional, and civic growth. Outside of writing and the classroom, Eliot enjoys trail running, messing about on rivers, and trying to master the fine art of pizza. Originally from the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin, Eliot is an Assistant Professor of English/Writing at 91传媒 and lives in La Grande. Find him at .
Jodi Varon is a founding editor of the award-winning basalt: a journal of fine & literary arts, as well as a founder and first director of 91传媒鈥檚 MFA program. She is the author of the new memoir (University of Georgia Press 2023) and (University of Missouri Press 2006), which was a WILLA Award finalist from Women Writing the West. Other awards include a first place award in non-fiction from New Millennium Writing, The William Stafford Fellowship in Non-Fiction from Literary Arts, and two awards to publishers from Literary Arts for Calapooya and basalt. Her work appears in Rock & Sling: A Journal of Witness, New Letters, The Northwest Review, The Seattle Review, the High Plains Literary Review, WomenArts Quarterly, The Western Humanities Review, the Oregon Encyclopedia, among others. Also a translator from the Chinese, her translation of the Tang Dynasty poet Li He are collected in The Rock鈥檚 Cold Breath: Selected Poems of Li He (Ice River Press).
Joe Wilkins is the author of the a novel, (Little, Brown 2019), praised as 鈥渞emarkable and unforgettable鈥� in a starred review at Booklist. A finalist for the First Novel Award from The Center for Fiction and for the Pacific Northwest Book Award, Fall Back Down When I Die won the High Plains Book Award and has now been translated into French, Spanish, and Italian. His latest novel is (Little, Brown 2024). Wilkins is also the author of a memoir, (Counterpoint 2013), winner of a GLCA New Writers Award, andfour collections of poetry, including most recently Thieve (University of Washington Press 2019) and When We Were Birds (University of Arkansas Press 2016), winner of the Oregon Book Award. His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Orion, The Sun, and the Pushcart Prize XXXIX. Wilkins grew up north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the Yamhill Valley of Oregon. Find him at .