Friggin' Smokin' Hedge, November 15, 2012
Menacing Hedge recently teamed up with SmokeLong Quarterly and FRiGG to host a night of poetry and prose at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle. Writers were invited on the basis of having had work published in one of the three journals (noted in parentheses) in the past. For those who could not make it, and for those eager to hear their favorite readings again, we have posted the evening's audio recordings here.
Len Kuntz (SmokeLong Quarterly)
Len Kuntz is a writer and editor at the online literary magazine Metazen. Over 700 of his stories and/or poems appear in print or online at places like PANK, Juked, Elimae, and others. Len has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize three times and many of his pieces have won awards. Len's story collection, "I'm Not Supposed To Be Here And Neither Are You," debuts from Aqueous Books in 2014.
Beth Coyote (Menacing Hedge)
Beth Coyote is published in synapse, Star 21, When It Rains From the Ground Up, Borderlands, chrysanthemum, Snow Monkey, The Concher, Gumball Press, Menacing Hedge, and others. She is a former Seattle Poet Populist nominee. She has two chickens names Lucy and Fionna.
Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson (Menacing Hedge)
Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson is a Canadian who married an American. She resides in Bellingham, WA. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous places, including The Literary Review of Canada, Softblow, A cappella Zoo, The Liner, EDGE, Echolocation, and the anthology Killer Verse. The first reading she ever gave directly proceeded an economics exam.
Ian Sandquist (SmokeLong Quarterly and FRiGG)
Ian Sandquist was born and raised in Seattle. He's currently a student at Western Washington University, and he is a fiction editor of the new online quarterly, Swarm. His work can be found online and in print at Front Porch, The Coffin Factory, Wigleaf, and others.
Pat Hurshell (Menacing Hedge)
Seattle-born, Pat Hurshell sang in European and Stateside opera houses for some 26 years before teaching for English & Women's Studies at the University of Washington for another 20. Her poems have been heard on Oregon radio in Literary Cafe, and published in a variety of journals including Borderlands, Calyx, Drash, Melusine, Menacing Hedge, Northwest Mosaic, Puget Soundings, and Women in Judaism. She is forthcoming in the anthology Myths and Legends from Scarecrow Press. A recipient of Woodrow Wilson and Ford Foundation grants for her research on Jewish women and the Shoah, she is currently translating German women's Shoah poems. Her poem "In Winter" appears in Best American Poets 2009.
Dave Clapper (FRiGG)
Dave Clapper lives in the Pacific Northwest and is a father of two. He created SmokeLong Quarterly in 2003, and his fiction has appeared in over thirty journals. Except for production of the various pages of SmokeLong, he is largely retired from the staff, focusing more now on his work in theater.
Kelly Boyker (FRiGG)
Kelly Boyker lives in Seattle with four cats and a husband. She has chapbooks forthcoming from INS Press and Hyacinth Girl Press. Most recently, her collaborative poetry with Margaret Bashaar was published in Fainting Couch Idioglossia from Blood Pudding Press. She the founding editor of Menacing Hedge.
Margaret Bashaar (Menacing Hedge)
Margaret Bashaar is the editor of Hyacinth Girl Press and co-founder/host of the TypewriterGirls Poetry Cabaret. She is the author of two chapbooks - Letters From Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel (Blood Pudding Press, 2011) and Barefoot and Listening (Tilt, 2009). She lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband, her son, and far too many typewriters.
Ross McMeekin (FRiGG)
Ross McMeekin lives in Seattle, where he edits the literary journal Spartan and teaches creative writing at Edmonds Community College. He received a MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2011. His fiction has appeared in publications such as PANK, FRiGG, Dark Sky Magazine, and Necessary Fiction, and his essays have appeared in The Rumpus and Hunger Mountain. He blogs at rossmcmeekin.com.
Kiara McMorris (Menacing Hedge)
Kiara McMorris hails from sunny Seattle, Washington. Between attempting (and close to failing) to become a barefoot runner and shaking what her momma gave her in sparkly pasties, she writes. She was recently published in amphibi.us. Her turn-ons include thievery and liquor. Her turn-offs include pedestrians, underpants, and justice.
Ellen Parker (SmokeLong Quarterly)
Ellen Parker is the founding editor of the online literary journal FRiGG, and she writes fiction. She has one daughter, two dogs, and three cats.