Resident Roster: Fall ’25 - Spring ’26
During fall 2025 and spring 2026, we hosted approximately 25 writers and artists in Mineral for one-week and two-week sessions held at our now-former location at the school and in the Mineral Lake Lodge. (We also hosted teaching writers and artists through a separate partner program with Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools program.)
Visiting presenters included Oregon fiction writer Brittney Corrigan, Washington visual artist Carina del Rosario, Alabama nonfiction writer and podcaster Kristine Lloyd, Washington fiction writer Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Washington comix artist Mita Mahato, nonfiction writer Claudia Rowe, Florida-based nonfiction writer River Selby, Washington nonfiction writer Claire Thompson, and Oregon Book Award-winning poet Charity Yoro. Host staff included Subhaga Crystal Bacon (alum), Jason Cohen, Allison Ellis (alum), Susan Shepard (alum), Claire Thompson (alum), Angela Wang, Acca Warren (alum), Jen Worick (alum), as well as board members Jane Hodges, Carolyn McKelvie, and Emiko Naito.
2025-2026 artists:
Lisette Austin, Tahoma Literary Review Fellow in Poetry, Seattle, is a nonfiction writer and poet whose work explores identity reclamation and the afterlife of relinquishment and adoption, as well as family histories. https://lisetteaustin.com/
Jenny Bartoy, nonfiction, Tacoma, is a nonfiction writer, literary critic and journalist, and editor of the anthology No Contact: Writers on Estrangement (Catapult, 2026). https://jennybartoy.com/
Hillary Behrman, fiction, Seattle, is the author of Lake Effect (Sarabande, 2026), a collection of stories selected by Lauren Groff as the Winner of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. https://www.hillarybehrman.com/
Joni Blecher, prose, Portland, is an editor and content optimizer by day and otherwise working on finishing a road-trip novel about finding home. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
Celeste Chan, prose, San Francisco, is at work on a family memoir. She has been Artist in Residence at San Francisco Public Library, co-founded Queer Rebels, toured the country with Sister Spit, and facilitated youth LGBTQ history workshops. https://www.celestechan.com/
Ching-in Chen, June Dodge Fellow in poetry, Seattle, is a genderqueer Chinese American writer, community organizer and teacher. Currently an associate professor in both the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and in the MFA program in creative writing and poetics at the University of Washington Bothell, their most recent collection is called Shiny City (Airlie Press, 2025), which explores the histories of Riverside, California. https://www.chinginchen.com/
Minna Dubin, prose, San Francisco, is the author of the reported book Mom Rage (Seal Press/Hachette, 2023), about the difficulties many parents experience inhabiting a job for which there’s no training, no time off, and often no emotional outlet. https://www.minnadubin.com/about
Shala Erlich, prose, Bellingham, is a practicing psychiatrist whose short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in journals including Iowa Review, Lilith, Yemassee Journal, The Missouri Review, and The Southern Humanities Review. She is at work on a novel.
Brian Christopher Giddens, prose and poetry, Seattle, spent much of his career in social work and health care, but now writes fiction as well as poetry. His work has appeared in journals including Sequestrum, Litro, Evening Street Review, Silver Rose, On the Run Fiction, Raven’s Perch Literary, Flash Fiction Magazine, Hyacinth Review, and Bluebird Word. https://www.brianchristophergiddens.com/
Constance Grady, fiction, New York, is a culture reporter at Vox.com and is at work on a novel. https://www.vox.com/authors/constance-grady
Kate Hagborg, young adult fiction, Tacoma, is a therapist by day and a middle-grade author by night, currently at work on her second novel, a middle-grade sci-fi/adventure story exploring themes of mental health, vulnerability, and going to therapy.
Devin Midori Hale, visual artist, Seattle, is a painter and visual artist at work on many new things. https://www.instagram.com/devonmidorisour/
Carole Hsiao, prose, Seattle, is a writer as well as visual artist and community educator who is the first-born daughter of Chinese refugees. Her work traces the role of filial piety amidst her family’s flight from China to modern-day America in the hopes of inspiring a more liberated future for her nieces. She has been a fellow with Anaphora Arts, Roots Wounds Words, and VONA.
Megan Kruse, June Dodge Fellow in fiction, Olympia, is the author of novel Call Me Home (Hawthorne Books, 2015), and was one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for 2015. She teaches fiction for the low-residency MFA program at Eastern Oregon University and at Gotham Writers Workshop. She is at work on a novel about grief set against the backdrop of oyster farming. https://literary-arts.org/bio/megan-kruse/
Amy Lam, Erin Donovan fellow in fiction, Portland, is a writer and editor who has served as a contributing editor at Bitch Media and as a Kundiman Fellow. She has led presentations and spoken at Portland Book Festival, Literary Arts, Lit Crawl, and AWP. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Gay Mag, Indiana Review, Pacifica Literary Review, Utne Reader, and Papercutter. https://www.byamylam.com/
Cynthia Liu, June Dodge Fellow in Fiction, Vancouver, British Columbia, is enrolled in University of British Columbia MFA program in Screenwriting and YA fiction, and has completed a nine-story speculative fiction collection and two novel manuscripts. Recent literary work has appeared in emerge 24, Hedgebrook Journal, and sci-fi and genderfluid anthologies. Nonfiction writing has appeared in The Progressive and The Washington Post.https://www.cynthialiu.com/
Wendy Oleson, fiction, Walla Walla, holds an MFA and PhD and has taught dozens of creative writing, literature, and composition courses at Oregon State, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Washington State - Tri-Cities, Whitman College, and the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension. She has also worked in editorial positions with the literary journals Split Lip Magazine,Fairy Tale Review, Memorious Magazine, Quarterly West, and Prairie Schooner. https://www.wendyoleson.com/
Johanna Porter, visual artist, Seattle, has worked as a graphic artist, illustrator, and art director, and in 2019 moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she creates art inspired by nature’s cycles. She has exhibited nationally in group shows and regionally in solo shows, with public art installation commissions in Washington and Arizona, with select pieces now part of the City of Seattle’s public art collection. https://www.pictureswithin.com/
Sarah Stuteville, June Dodge Fellow in Prose, Seattle, works as a therapist by way of a history in media and journalism. She has reported from over a dozen countries in the Middle East, East Africa, South Asia and the Former Soviet Union. Her memoir writing and personal essays have been published in several literary journals. She co-hosts a podcast, “Mistakes Were Made,” about relationships, mental health and politics. She is currently working on a book of autofiction about non-monogamy, motherhood, radical politics and mental health. https://www.sarahstuteville.com/writing/
Anne Teiche, visual artist, Seattle is a painter, maker of art books, and arts administrator. Her recent solo exhibitions include “Feels Like Second Nature” at Seattle’s Threshold Gallery and “A Secret I Keep from Myself” at Austin’s GrayDUCK Gallery. https://www.teiche.art/
Leah Tribbett, visual artist, Philadelphia, works in education as a curriculum writer and formerly as a teacher. Currently working on ledger art, participated in the inaugural cohort of Augmenting Locality in the summer of 2024, a creative exploration of the relationship between the physical and digital world, and presented her ledger art at the D.C. History Conference in the spring of 2025.
Suzanne Warren, fiction, Philadelphia, isa fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared in Narrative, Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review, Memorious, The Prague Revue, Versal, and Post Road, which selected her story “The Raspberry King” to appear in its Guest Folio. Her story “The Country of Husbands” won an Editor’s Reprint Award from Sequestrum.
Wendy A. Warren, fiction and prose, Seattle, is the author of the award-winning to-be-published novel The Butcher’s Apprentice and has published work in Every Day Fiction, Bright Flash Literary Review, HerStry, and elsewhere. Her fiction explores the lives of women and girls in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and often involves the spiritual side of farm life. https://wendyawarren.com/
Lisbeth White, June Dodge Fellow in poetry, Port Townsend, has published work in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Rumpus, Kweli, Apogee, Green Mountains Review, EcoTheo, Split this Rock, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, American Sycamore, was published by Perugia Press in 2022. Her most recent book is A Most Natural Thing (Red Mare Press, 2025). https://lisbethwrites.com/
Diana Xin, June Dodge Fellow in fiction, Seattle is the author of the debut story collection The Book of Exemplary Women (YesYes Books, 2025). Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Narrative Magazine, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. https://dianaxin.com/about.html
