Melissa McCanna’s abstract and narrative paintings explore concepts of heritage and the illusory veil between the natural world and our manufactured world. Her inspiration includes the Pacific Northwest, Mexico and contemporary issues.  She uses acrylic paint, paper, photographs and ink. Her studio, Kingston Artist Tree, is in Kingston, WA.  Melissa teaches classes there, and conducts painting events called “Art Flights.”  
Her work can also be viewed at Front Street Gallery in Poulsbo, WA. http://www.melissamccanna.com/

As a child growing up on Kodiak Island in Alaska, Dawn Jarvela Henthorn explored tide pools, climbed trees, rolled around in foot-thick moss, snacked on salmonberries, Nootka rose-hips, seaweeds, and limpets. This playground of beaches, wetlands, cliffs, woods, wildlife, left its indelible mark on her art, writing, and personality. She says, “Until urged by my writer friends it never occurred to me that I could write. In fact, I always stood in awe of those who could.” Her sculptural art in soapstone and clay represent the feelings and movements of these childhood surroundings. Over the years, her poems have been exhibited in Ars Poetica, in Poetry Corners, at BPA, the Bainbridge Island Library, and at Mud Puddle Coffee, along with her photos of the devastation from the 1964 earthquake in Kodiak.

Julia Miller (Julia V. Miller Fine Art) likes nothing better than exploring a quiet forest or scrambling over a rocky beach. Her artwork expresses the delight she finds in the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in the Seattle area, a University of Washington graduate, the Kitsap peninsula is now the home of her dreams.

Julia began painting after leaving a long stint as a popular natural foods restaurateur. She describes her painting style as “unhampered by formal training” and her work has been called “color poetry.”

Sarah Stockton is the Editor-in-Chief of River Mouth Review, an online, bi-monthly poetry review. Sarah’s own poems have been published in print and online, including in Glass Poetry, The Shallow Ends, Rise Up Review, Crab Creek Review, Empty Mirror, SWIMM, Psaltery and Lyre, and Earth’s Daughters, among others. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. Workshop participation with the Centrum Writer’s Conference, Blue Light Press, and The Writers’ Workshoppe in Port Townsend, WA, have been a fruitful adjunct to a life-long love affair with poetry.

Tim McNulty is a poet, essayist, and nature writer based in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. He is the author of ten poetry books and eleven books of natural history. Tim has received the Washington State Book Award and the National Outdoor Book Award among other honors.
Tim’s most recent book of poems, Ascendance, is published by Pleasure Boat Studio. His natural history books include Olympic National Park: A Natural History, and Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park. His work has been translated into German, Chinese, and Japanese.
Tim lives with his wife, Mary Morgan, in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains above the Dungeness and Graywolf rivers. A passionate spokesman for the wild, Tim remains active in the Northwest environmental community.