Alumni
We have hosted more than 215 artists! We’re still populating this page, so if you don’t see your name check back soon!
2026
Lisette Austin (Seattle),TLR fellow in poetry https://lisetteaustin.com/
Joni Blecher (Portland), fiction
Jenny Bartoy (Tacoma), creative nonfiction https://jennybartoy.com/
Celeste Chan (San Francisco), creative nonfiction https://www.celestechan.com/
Ching-in Chen (Seattle), June Dodge fellow in poetry https://www.chinginchen.com/
Kate Hagborg (Tacoma), young adult fiction
Anne Teiche (Seattle), visual artist https://www.teiche.art/
That’s a Portland-based writer visiting Megan Kruse, Constance Grady, and Megan Kruse at the Headquarters Tavern during November 2025.
In front that’s Brittney Corrigan and Anna Teiche. In back that’s Joni Blecher, Jane Hodges (board), and Lisette Austin.
2025
Subhaga Crystal Bacon (Methow Valley), poet https://subhagacrystalbacon.com/publications/
Angela Barton (Los Angeles), fiction
Sofya Belinskaya (Seattle), visual artist https://sofyabelinskaya.com
Hillary Behrman (Seattle), fiction https://www.hillarybehrman.com/
Minna Dubin (San Francisco), creative nonfiction https://www.minnadubin.com/about
Shala Erlich (Bellingham), prose
Brian Christopher Giddens (Seattle), prose and poetry https://www.brianchristophergiddens.com/
Nancy K. Fishman (San Francksco), fiction
Constance Grady (New York), fiction https://www.vox.com/authors/constance-grady
Devin Midori Hale (Seattle), visual artist https://www.instagram.com/devonmidorisour/
Carole Hsiao (Seattle), prose
Megan Kruse (Olympia), June Dodge fellow in fiction https://literary-arts.org/bio/megan-kruse/
Amy Lam (Portland), Erin Donovan fellow in fiction https://www.byamylam.com/
Cynthia Liu (Vancouver, BC), June Dodge fellow in fiction https://pop-culture.arts.ubc.ca/cynthia-liu/
Sandy Marchetti (Chicago, IL), poetry https://sandramarchetti.net/about/
Wendy Oleson (Walla Walla), fiction https://www.wendyoleson.com/
Johanna Porter (Seattle), visual artist https://www.pictureswithin.com/
Sarah Stuteville (Seattle), June Dodge fellow in fiction https://www.sarahstuteville.com/writing/
Leah Tribbett (Philadelphia), visual artist
Suzanne Warren (Philadelphia),fiction
Wendy A. Warren (Seattle), fiction and prose https://wendyawarren.com/
Philippa Webster (Seattle), fiction
Amanda Wenger (Houston), fiction https://amandawenger.com/
Lisbeth White (Port Townsend), June Dodge fellow in poetry https://lisbethwrites.com/
Diana Xin (Seattle), June Dodge fellow in fiction https://dianaxin.com/about.html
2024
Jonah Barnett (Olympia); June Dodge fellow in prose
Syr Beker (San Francisco), fiction
Jill Bergantz (Angels Camp, CA), poetry
Debby Dodds (Portland), fiction
Allison Ellis (Seattle), creative nonfiction
Michelle Goodman (Seattle), creative nonfiction
Blue Guldal (Brooklyn), fiction
Bridget Henry (TK), visual art
Katie Howard (Seattle), prose
Sherri Levine (Portland), June Dodge fellow in poetry
Susan Lieu (Seattle), creative nonfiction/performing arts
Kristine Lloyd (Birmingham, AL), creative nonfiction
Linda Malnack (Seattle), poetry
Maria McLeod (Bellingham),poetry
Miriam Milena (Bellingham), June Dodge fellow in poetry
Masha Morgunova (New York), visual art
Jordan Quimby (Seattle), Mona Lisa Roberts fellow in visual art
Emily Shetler (Portland), June Dodge fellow in prose
Daniel Tam Claiborne (Seattle), June Dodge fellow in fiction
Suzanne Warren (Seattle), fiction
Suze Woolf (Seattle), visual art
Jennifer Worick (Seattle), fiction and creative nonfiction
Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong (Portland), TLR fellow in poetry
2023
Frank Abe (Seattle, WA) – prose, dramaturgy
Bella Bravo (Seattle, WA), June Dodge fellowship in prose
Ollie Brickman (Seattle, WA), poetry
Peter Burzyński (Milwaukee, WI), poetry
Rona Fernandez (Oakland, CA), prose
Bruno George (Seattle, WA), prose
Virginia Hand (Anacortes, WA), Mona Lisa fellow, painting
Debbi Kenote (Brooklyn, NY), visual art, painting/sculpture
Stephanie Kuehnert (Seattle, WA), SAF Fellow in nonfiction
Ari Laurel (Seattle, WA), June Dodge fellow in prose
Vivian Li (British Columbia), June Dodge fellow in poetry
Susan Lieu (Seattle, WA), SAF fellow in prose
Joanna Luloff (Denver, CO), fiction
Nancy Mburu (Seattle, WA) TLR Fellow in Prose
Dhana Musil (Vancouver, British Columbia), fiction
Kari Pilgrim (Brooklyn, NY; Erin Donovan Fellow in fiction
Sara Post (Chimacum, WA; June Dodge Fellow in Prose)
Claire Thompson (Eastern WA), prose
Charity Yoro (Hillsboro, Oregon) SAF Fellowship in Poetry
Shuxuan Zhou (Seattle, WA), SAF Fellowship in Prose
That’s (l to r) 2021’s Julene Tripp Weaver, Wendy Oleson, John Treat, Camille Wanliss, and Olivia Stephens.
That’s (front row:) Kamari Bright, Margaret Luongo, and host Wendy Call and (back row:) Sylvia Pollack, chef Siolo Thompson, and Meredith Arena.
That’s (l to r) Ellen Welcker, Nic de Luna, Bill Carty, and Hillary Moore, dressed for maximum creativity.
2019
Katrina Carrasco (Seattle, WA), June Dodge fellow in fiction.
Max Delsohn (Seattle, WA), nonfiction.
Elaina Ellis, (Bellingham, WA), June Dodge fellow in poetry
Samantha Frank (Arlington, WA), SAF fellow in fiction
Sean Hovendick (Albany, NY), visual artist,
Sara Jaffe (Portland, OR) fiction
Janine Kovac (’15, Oakland, CA), nonfiction
Laura Latimer (Austin, Texas), visual artist
Corinne Manning (Seattle, WA), fiction
Catherine Alice Michaelis (Shelton, WA), Mona Lisa fellow
Elise Morris (Pleasant Hill, CA), SAF fellow in visual art
Ruby Hansen Murray (Cathlamet, WA), fiction
Dayna Patterson (Bellingham, WA), SAF fellow in poetry
Rebecca Peterson (Yuma, AZ), working fellow/visual artist
Pamela K. Santos (Portland, OR), SAF fellow in poetry,
Suzanne Warren (Seattle, WA), Erin Donovan fellow in fiction
JM Wong (Seattle, WA), June Dodge fellow in nonfiction
That’s (l to r) 2018’s Ely Shipley, Meg Hartwig, Bonnie Rae Nygren, and Lacey Rowland enjoying a well-deserved ice cream break.
2017
Sufiya Abdur-Rahman (Silver Spring, MD), SAF Fellow in Nonfiction
Michele Bombardier (Bainbridge Island, WA), J. Dodge Fellow in Poetry
Marjorie Celona (Eugene, OR), SAF Fellow in Fiction
Brittney Corrigan (Portland OR), Poetry
Shawna Ervin (Denver, CO), SAF Fellow in Nonfiction
Kelly Froh (Seattle, WA) visual arts/graphic novel
Karen Finneyfrock (Seattle, WA) YA Fiction
Margaret Lee (San Francisco, CA), SAF Fellow in Nonfiction
Lou MacMillan (Olympia, WA), visual artist/photography
Emily May (Jamaica Plain, MA) creative nonfiction
Meghan McGrath (Poughkeepsie, NY), nonfiction
Kelly Morse (Ashland, WI), SAF fellow in Poetry
Marina Petrova (New York, NY), SAF fellow in Fiction
Rena Priest (Bellingham, WA), SAF Fellow in Poetry
Kelly Sundberg (Athens, OH) creative nonfiction
Emily Tuszynska (Fairfax, VA), SAF fellow in Poetry
Clare Johnson, (Seattle, WA), June Dodge Fellow in Poetry
Gabrielle Bates (Seattle, WA), June Dodge Fellow in Poetry
Putsata Reang (Burien, WA), E. Donovan Fellow in Creative Nonfiction
Urban Waite (Seattle, WA) fiction
That’s (l to r) 2016’s Jason Vanhee, Jess Martin (board), Gabriela Denise Frank, Connie Eggers, Elisabeth Eaves (board), Laura Lampton Scott, and Jane Hodges (board) goofing off.
2015
Wendy Call (Seattle), literary nonfiction and translation.
Amanda Castleman (Seattle), literary nonfiction.
Hanae Jonas (Michigan), poetry.
Janine Kovac (San Francisco), literary nonfiction.
Stephanie Kuehnert Lewis (Seattle), YA fiction/adult nonfiction.
Kirsten Lunstrum (Seattle), fiction.
Maxim Luskotoff (Montana), June Dodge Fellow in Fiction.
Regina Mullen (New York), fiction.
Susan Meyers (Seattle), fiction/nonfiction.
Gretchen Schrafft (Corvallis, OR), June Dodge Fellow in Fiction.
Julia Tranchina (San Francisco), poetry.
Jane Wong (Seattle), June Dodge Fellow in Poetry.
Partner residencies
WITS 2026 Residency
In partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program, we run a shorter week-long winter break session for teaching artists working for WITS.
Ankober Yewendwossen (Seattle), prose
Monique Franklin (Seattle), poet, musician, storyteller
Gabriella Garcia (Seattle), poet and librettist
Ann Teplick (Seattle), poet, playwright, and prose write
2023 Spanish-Language residency
In partnership with Seattle Escribe and with additional support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Mineral School ran two sessions for eight artists working in Spanish and whose first language is Spanish, maintaining an all-Spanish environment throughout and providing presentation opportunities online.
Luis Avila (Arizona), fiction
Carlos Vazquez Cruz (Kalamazoo, MI), fiction and poetry
José Juan Gómez-Becerra (Kentucky), poetry
Viviana Gonzales (Texas), poetry
Kadiri J. Vaquer Fernández (California), poetry
Lara López de Jesús (New York), poetry and prose
Dalia Maxum (Seattle, WA), poetry, prose)
Karen Sevilla (Puerto Rico), poetry
Sayra Torres (Las Vegas), fiction
2019 Screenwriters Residency
In partnership with the Rainier Independent Film Festival, and its film curator/critic Warren Etheredge, we hosted a screenwriting residency in 2019, where residents spent their first week and a half writing, then participated in quality screen time with all-access passes to the festival in Ashford.
Jordan Friedman (Mercer Island, WA), screenwriter
Jackie Perez (Bahrain), screenwriter
Beth Pielert (Half Moon Bay, CA), RIFF fellow in screenwriting
Alexis Stratton (Denver, CO), screenwriter
That’s Nancy K. Fishman, Sandy Marchetti, Subhaga Crystal Bacon, and Sufya Belinskaya during spring 2025.
Top row (l to r) Daniel Tam-Claiborne, Linda Malnack, Suzanne Warren, Maria McLeod, Michelle Goodman, Jane Hodges (board). Bottom row: Jen Worick, Jonah Barnett, Sonora Jack, and Suze Woolf. Missing: Jill Bergantz
Jonah Barnett, an Olympia writer and artist, snuck aboard a local decommissioned train for artistic purposes. —>
Murray is head cat in charge at the Mineral Lake Lodge. Allergic to cats? Don’t worry. Murray stays on the first floor and spends a lot of time outside patrolling, networking, flirting, and/or relaxing. —>
←- That’s (l to r) 2023 residents Bella Bravo, Virginia Hand, Ari Laurel, Vivian Li.
That’s (l to r front) a bit of Brian Giddens, Minna Dubin, Leah Tribbett, (l to r, back:) Devin Midori Hale, Carole Hsiao..
That’s (l to r, front) 2023’s Rebecca Dolan, Brittney Corrigan, Ollie Brickman, (l to r, back) Debbi Kenote, Joanna Luloff, and Kari Pilgrim.
2020-2022
Because of the pandemic shutdown beginning in March 2020, many artists subsequently rescheduled into sessions in 2021 and 2022 alongside 2021 and 2022 cohorts so these are all combined together.
Kelli Russell Agodon (Hood Canal, WA), poetry
Meredith Arena (Seattle, WA), Erin Donovan fellow in poetry
Brent Armendinger (Los Angeles, CA), poetry
Jessica Bergamino (Seattle, WA), June Dodge fellow in poetry
Kamari Bright (Seattle, WA), June Dodge fellow in poetry
Bill Carty (Seattle, WA), poetry
Kristi Coulter (Seattle, WA), nonfiction
Nic de Luna (Victoria, BC), fiction
Ayn Carillo Gailey (Orcas Island, WA), fiction
Shelby Handler (Seattle, WA), prose
Catie Hannigan (Portland, OR), Mona Lisa fellow/painting
Rose Himber Howse (Asheville, NC), fiction
Erinn Kathryn (Portland, OR), visual art/painting
Sherri Levine (Portland, OR), poetry
Margaret Luongo (Oxford, OH), fiction
Mita Mahato (Seattle, WA), visual art/graphic novelist
Hillary Moore (Seattle, WA), SAF fellow in visual art/illustration
Shagufta Mulla (Independence, OR), poetry
Wendy Oleson (Walla Walla, WA), fiction
Sylvia Pollack (Seattle, WA), poetry
Susan Shepard (Portland, OR) creative nonfiction
Olivia Stephens (Auburn, WA), Mona Lisa fellow (graphic novelist)
John Treat (Seattle, WA), June Dodge fellow in fiction
Camille Wanliss (New York, NY), fiction
Julene Tripp Weaver (Seattle, WA) poetry
Andrea Volpe (Cambridge, MA), Erin Donovan fellow in fiction
Ellen Welcker (Spokane, WA), SAF fellow in poetry
Suze Woolf (Seattle, WA), visual art, painting/sculpture
That’s (l to r) 2019’s Sean Hovendick, Catrina Carrasco, Janine Kovac, Corinne Manning, Jackleen de la Harpe, Daemond Arrindell, and Rebecca Peterson.
2018
Anastacia-Renée (Seattle, WA), poetry
Judy Bolton-Fasman (Newton, MA), E. Donovan fellow in nonfiction
Nancy Grace Campbell (Olympia, WA), June Dodge fellow in nonfiction
Jill Carley (Angels Camp, CA), poetry
Cristina Cortez (Bothell, WA), poetry
Carina Del Rosario (Seattle, WA), visual artist
Meg Hartwig (Seattle, WA), Mona Lisa Roberts fellow/sculptor
Linda Malnack (Seattle, WA), poetry
Donna Miscolta (Seattle, WA), June Dodge fellow in prose
Bonnie Rae Nygren (Auburn, WA), visual artist/painting
Gage Opdenbrouw (Oakland, CA), visual artist/painting
Lacey Rowland (Boise, ID), June Dodge fellow in fiction
Claudia Savage (Portland, OR), poetry
Rob Schlegel (Portland, OR), poetry
Ely Shipley (Bellingham, WA), June Dodge fellow in poetry,
Laura Stanfill (Portland, OR), fiction
2016
Daemond Arrindell (New York), poetry and dramaturgy.
Celeste Brash (Portland), nonfiction.
Cara Diaconoff (Seattle), fiction.
Pat Dobie (Vancouver, BC), June Dodge Fellow in Fiction.
Leanne Dunic (Vancouver, BC), poetry/hybrid lyric work.
Rachel Edelman (Seattle), poetry.
Constance Eggers (Corvallis, OR), June Dodge Fellow in Poetry.
Gabriela Denise Frank (Seattle), fiction.
Jennie Goode (Seattle), nonfiction.
Bernard Grant (Seattle), June Dodge Fellow in Fiction.
Jennifer Haupt (Seattle), Erin Donovan Writing Fellow in Fiction.
Molly Laich (Seattle), fiction.
Laura Lampton Scott (Portland, OR), June Dodge Fellow in Fiction.
Sonya Lea (Portland), nonfiction.
Karen McInturff (Centralia, WA), fiber artist.
Jason Vanhee (Portland), YA and adult fiction.
The very first residency cohort in 2015: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Janine Kovac, Wendy Call, Jane Wong, and Brittney McGrath on kitchen duty!
←-That’s Fausto, Lorraine, Jane, Britta, and Kyle, with choreographer Benny in front.
WITS 2025 Residency
In partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program, we run a shorter week-long winter break session for teaching artists working for WITS.
Samar Abulhassan (Seattle), poet
Ell Lin (Seattle), interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator
Corinne Manning (Seattle), fiction
Acca Warren (Seattle), poet
2022 Spanish-Language residency
In partnership with Seattle Escribe, Mineral School ran two sessions for eight artists working in Spanish and whose first language is Spanish, maintaining an all-Spanish environment throughout and providing presentation opportunities online.
Alejandro Peres-Cortes (Seattle), poetry
Claudia Hernández Ocádiz (Seattle), fiction
Elizabeth Sotelo (Oregon), creative nonfiction
Rossy Toledo (Tennessee)
WITS 2024 Residency
In partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program, we run a shorter week-long winter break session for teaching artists working for WITS.
Cypress Manning (Seattle), prose
Sierra Nelson (Seattle), poet, essayist, performance artist
Nhatt Nichols (Port Townsend, WA), journalst and cartoonist
Clara Olivo (Seattle), poetry
That’s one of the two 2023 Spanish residencies!
2014 Dance Lab with Bennyroyce Royon
In partnership with Bennyroyce Royon, a dancer and choreographer, we hosted a dance residency in 2014, where residents spent a week developing new work and then sharing it with the community. Participating dancers included:
Fausto Contreras
Kyle Matthew Johnson
Lorraine Lau
Britta Peterson
That’s Lou MacMillan (‘17) appreciating Mt. Rainier during the weekend of an eclipse.