Stealing Light: A Raven Chronicles Anthology, Selected Work 1991-1996
Stealing Light: A Raven Chronicles Anthology, Selected Work 1991-1996
Book Details:
ISBN: 978-0-9979468-5-7
Publisher: Raven Chronicles Press
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 9/25/2018
Page Count: 518
Category: Anthology/Poetry/Fiction/Nonfiction/Art
Language: English
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Stealing Light: A Raven Chronicles Anthology, Selected Work from Summer, 1991 — Fall, 1996, publisher Raven Chronicles Press, edited by Kathleen Alcalá, Phoebe Bosché, Paul Hunter, and Stephanie Lawyer, with Matt Briggs and Tiffany Midge. The anthology includes the poems, essays, fiction, interviews, and storytelling of 92 writers, and the artwork / illustrations of 26 artists.
The Raven Chronicles began in 1991, when Kathleen Alcalá and Philip Red Eagle guest-edited several King County Arts Commission Newsletters. They realized that there was a lack of diverse, multicultural writing being published in Seattle and the Northwest region in general. They thought: let’s start our own magazine!
We chose the name Raven because—as we learned from Upper Skagit storyteller Vi Hilbert (now deceased)—in northern Northwest Coast mythology Raven is a powerful figure who transforms the world, by accident or on purpose, yet he is also a trickster, a shape-shifter who is mischievous, often selfish, but brings light to the world. We added Chronicles because we intended the magazine to be a chronicle of how time passes, chronos, and us with it.
From 1991 to 2018, for twenty-seven years, we published forty-eight issues of Raven, from Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer/Fall 1991 to Vol. 26, Last Call, Summer 2018. As Raven Chronicles Press, we will continue to publish work which embodies the cultural diversity of writers and artists living in the Pacific Northwest, and elsewhere.
Foreword by Claudia Castro Luna, Washington State Poet Laureate (2018-2021).
Poems by Raine Arroyo, Ken Gollersrud Ayala, Anna Bálint, Bart Baxter, Dina Ben-Lev, James Bertolino, Phoebe Bosché, Sean Brendan-Brown, Nancy Cherry, Alice Derry, John Enright, Heid Ellen Erdrich, Tess Gallagher, Diane Glancy, Paul r Harding, Sharon Hashimoto, Alicia Hokanson, Donnell Hunter, Paul Hunter, Lauren Kaushansky, Marion Kimes, Dorothy Kneubuhl, Larry Laurence, Stacey Levine, Fatima Lim-Wilson, Anna Odessa Linzer, Kathleen Marie, Armando Martínez, Valerie Matsumoto, Tiffany Midge, Kevin Miller, Kristin Naca, Duane Niatum, Amy Pence, Freda Quenneville, Belle Randall, Margaret Randall, William Reichard, Carter Revard, Lawrence Revard, dan raphael, Mira Chieko Shimabukuro, Eddie Silva, Ann Spiers, JT Stewart, Stephen Thomas, Joyce Thompson, Gail E. Tremblay, Nico Vassilakis, Ron Welburn, David Lloyd Whited, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Don Wilsun, Elizabeth Woody, Qiu Xiaolong.
Fiction/Storytelling by Diana Abu-Jaber, Daniel F. Aga, Kathleen de Azevedo, D.L. Birchfield, Omar S. Castañeda, Lise Erdrich, Leonard Goodman, Amy Halloran, Gregory Hischak, Arthur J. Johnson, Stephan Magcosta, Donna Miscolta, Dawn Karima Pettigrew, Richard Ploetz, Bill Ransom, Trisha Ready, David Romtvedt, Barbara Earl Thomas, Susan Wilbur, Carletta Carrington Wilson.
Non-fiction/Essays/Plays by Kathleen Alcalá, Jody Aliesan, Steven Jesse Bernstein, D.L. Birchfield, Gary Curtis, Stephan Magcosta, Nora Martin, Deborah A. Miranda, Joycelyn Moody, John Olson, Robert Shimabukuro, Marilyn Stablein, Arthur Tulee, Roy D. Wilson, Janet Yoder.
Interviews by Kathleen Alcalá, Phoebe Bosché, E.K. Caldwell, Scott Martin, Philip H. Red Eagle.
Interviews with: Writers Sherman Alexie, Charles Johnson, Leslie Marmon Silko; Artists Alfredo Arreguín, Abe Blashko, Fred Wilson.
Art/Illustrations by Alfredo Arreguín, Kree Arvanitas, Rick Bartow, Abe Blashko, Gary Curtis, Anita Endrezze, Frank S. Fujii, Charles (Chas) Johnson, Irene H. Kuniyuki, Gayanna Magcosta, Scott Martin, Harlow Morgan, Fran Murphy, Caroline Orr, Mary Randlett, Elizabeth Sandvig, Marilyn Stablein, Jon Strongbow, Barbara Earle Thomas, Terry Turrell, Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Patti Warashina, Gloria White-Calico, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Dean Wong.