MARCH 1997
Contributors:
THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
Sherman
Alexie
is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian author of several books of poetry and
prose as well as the short story collection, The Lone Ranger and
Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Atlantic Monthly Press). Sherman is one of
ten recipients of the 1994 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writers' Awards.
His first novel was Reservation Blues. His second novel, Indian
Killer, and a book of poems, The Summer of Black Widows,
were published in September 1996.
Omar
Castañeda
is a native of Guatemala who was raised in the Midwest. He is author of
the novels Imagining Isabel,(Dutton/Lodestar) and Among the Volcanoes
(E.P. Dutton/Lodestar), and the short story collection Remembering to
Say Mouth or Face. Omar has also written a book for children called
Abuela's Weave.
Mary F. Chen-Johnson
is a Taiwanese American fiction writer who
studied at Cornell University and University of Montana. She has had work
published in Ithaca Women's Anthology, Literary Review
and has work in the anthology, American Eyes. She is currently working
on a historical novel.
Tiffany
Midge
is Hunkpapa Sioux and German and enrolled at the Standing Rock Reservation.
Her poetry has appeared in such places as Cutbank, Blue Mesa Review,
ERGO!, and forthcoming in an anthology of emerging Native American
writers, edited by Sherman Alexie. Tiffany is also the recipient of the
1994 Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award from the Native Writer's Circle
of the Americas for her manuscript, Outlaws, Renegades and Saints: Diary
of a Mixed-up Halfbreed, just published by Greenfield Review Press.
Kristin
Naca
is a Filipina Puerto Rican American poet who recently finished her BFA at
the University of Washington and is in grad school in Cincinnati. She has
attended the Hedgebrook writers in residence program on Whidbey Island,
and has been published in Seattle Review and Poetry Northwest.
Nancy
Rawles
is an African American fiction writer and playwright whose writing credits
include Going to Seed, Nothing But a Lie and A Spot in
the Shade. She has been an artist in residence for the Washington State
Arts Commission and for Very Special Arts Washington and also was commissioned
to write a play for A Contemporary Theater (ACT) in Seattle.
Bob
Shimabukuro
is an Okinawan American writer and editor
whose column, "Bull Session" appeared for many years in The
International Examine. He has written extensively about his personal
experience of caring for his brother Sam, who died of AIDS in 1988. Shimabukuro
is currently the executive director of the Asian Pacific AIDS Council.
Mira Chieko Shimabukuro
is an Okinawan-Dutch-English American poet who grew up in Portland. Mira's
work has been published in The International Examiner, Coffeehouse Poets'
Quarterly, and she is editor of an anthology of younger writers, Present
Tense, Calyx, 1996. She is currently in the MFA program in Creative
Writing at the University of Washington.
Barbara
Earl Thomas
was born, raised and educated in Seattle. A noted painter, she has had artwork
in exhibits and collections throughout the U.S. She is represented in Seattle
by the Francine Seders Gallery. Her written work has been included in publications
from Seal Press and Calyx. Since 1989, she has worked as advertising manager
at The Elliott Bay Book Co.
Gail
E. Tremblay
is an Onondaga/ Mic Mac and French Canadian poet whose book, Indian Singing
in 20th Century North America, was published by Calyx Press in 1990.
Tremblay's writing has been widely published across the United States. She
is also an accomplished visual artist. She is currently an Arts and Humanities
faculty member at The Evergreen State College.
Carletta
Wilson
is an African American poet and fiction writer and author ofWhat's the
News? Carletta has had work published in several anthologies and publications
including Contact II, Raven Chronicles, Sojourner, and Corymb.
She currently works as a art librarian for Seattle Public Library.
Fatima
Lim-Wilson
is a Filipina American poet whose book Wandering Roots/From the Hothouse
was published in Manila in 1991. Her second book of poetry is Crossing
the Snow Bridge (Ohio State University Press, 1995). Fatima's work has
been published in numerous journals and anthologies across the United States,
and also in France, Japan and the Philippines.
Power of Language editor
Mayumi Tsutakawa
is an independent editor and curator. She coordinated the Power of Language
reading series last year and has edited several literary anthologies including
Edge Walking on the Western Rim (Sasquatch Books), The Forbidden
Stitch (Calyx), and Turning Shadows into Light (Young Pine Press).
She also has curated several historic and contemporary Asian/Pacific American
art exhibitions in this region.
© The Raven Chronicles 1997