APRIL 1997
The Girl Who
Always Thought It Was Summer
by Annie Hansen
by Sharon Hashimoto
Garden Without Figures
China 1936
by John Willson
Annie
Hansen:
"I live in Indianola, Washington on the Suquamish Reservation. It is
home to me. It is where I live, where I write from, where family is, where
I give and receive. I am a person of place. My place is the beach where
I live. It is the people I know and have known here. It is the stories I
have heard that belong to this place, too, and the stories that travel through
here and are given as gifts. I write here, I play here, Iå walk here,
I gather and grow food here, I swim around in the bay below my house, and
I take this place and its stories with me where ever I go."
Annie has had stories, poetry and essays in numerous publications including
(magazines) The Kenyon Review, Raven Chronicles; (anthologies)
Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry, and Blue
Dawn, Red Earth, New Native American Storytellers.
Sharon Hashimoto:Sharon Hashimoto is a Literature and Writing Instructor at Highline Community College. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Poetry, The Carolina Quarterly, The American Scholar, Seattle Review, Raven Chronicles, Shenandoah, Asian Pacific American Journal, and many other publications. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, King County Arts Commission, and Artist Trust. Brooding Heron Press published a limited edition chapbook of her poems: Reparations (1992).
John Willson:John Willson's publications include California Quarterly, Journal of the American Medical Association, Kyoto Journal, Northwest Review, Raven Chronicles, Seattle Review and Sycamore Review. His manuscript, Uses of Bamboo, originated from a year and a half stay in Japan. A finalist in the 1995 National Poetry Series, a recipient of the Pushcart Prize and awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, John lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, where he teaches poetry writing and works as a bookseller.
© The Raven Chronicles 1997