Creative Residency 2021 Jurors:
Poetry
Meet the jurors who are helping us select the Poetry participants for the 2021 Creative Residency program.
Kelli Russell Agodon is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer in the Seattle area. Her most recent book, Hourglass Museum, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Poetry Prize. Her second book, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, was the winner of the Foreword Indies Book of the Year for poetry and also a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards. She has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, James Hearst Poetry Prize, Artist Trust, and the Puffin Foundation. Agodon coauthored The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice, with poet Martha Silano, and is the co-director of Poets on the Coast. She is an avid hiker and paddleboarder. Her next collection, Dialogues with Rising Tides, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in 2021. www.agodon.com www.
Holly J. Hughes is the author of Hold Fast, Passings, and Sailing by Ravens, co-author of The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, and editor of the anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease. Her fine art chapbook Passings received an American Book Award in 2017. After commercial fishing for salmon in Alaska, skippering a 65-foot schooner, working as a naturalist on ships, and teaching writing at the college level, she now lives on the Olympic peninsula, where she leads writing and mindfulness workshops in Alaska and the Northwest and consults as a writing coach. www.hollyjhughes.com
Bruce Whiteman has degrees in English literature, library science, and musicology, and until 2010 worked as a rare book specialist at McMaster University, McGill University, and UCLA. He has published many books of poetry, including his long poem entitled The Invisible World Is in Decline, which appears in several books published in 1984, 1989, 2000, 2006, and 2014 respectively. His seventh book, called The Sad Mechanic Exercise, was published by Gaspereau Press in the spring of 2019. Although he has published extensively as a rare books librarian, scholar, and critic, Whiteman has called writing poetry “the part of my life I’m most passionate about.”
