2008 Presenters by Genre: Poetry
Caleb Barber
 Caleb Barber maintains a BA in English/Creative Writing from Western Washington University, and is currently an MFA candidate from the Whidbey Writers Workshop, in poetry. He works in Bellingham, Washington at a machine shop. He has been published in Wandering Hermit Review, Stringtown, Jeopardy, Portland Review, and Rattle, with work forthcoming from Fulcrum.
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Gloria Burgess
 Gloria fuses memory and presence into her poetry, performances, and teaching. Using the evocative, rhythmic power of language, she delights in exploring her own and others’ cultural heritage. A Cave Canem Poetry Fellow, Gloria’s poetry has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, a PBS film on social activism and the arts, and the Skagit River Poetry Festival. Her three volumes of poetry include Journey of the Rose and The Open Door. Her latest book, Legacy Living: The Six Covenants for Personal & Professional Excellence, draws on the powerful matrix of poetry, images, and narrative. Inthisbook,Gloriashares her father’s legacy relationship with Nobel prize-winning writer William Faulkner, her own legacy of supporting others, and shows us how to be intentional about creating our legacies. She is currently writing a new inspirational book, which will be released in 2008. www.gloriaburgess.com/
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Molly Larson Cook
 Molly Larson Cook is a Langley poet, playwright and novelist. A northwest native, she’s lived and worked on both coasts in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Washington and Oregon. In 1995, she was a Fellow at the Fishtrap Writers Conference and in 1998, she was awarded the Dibner Fellowship for Fiction by the Maine Community Foundation. In 2001, she was a juror for the Maine Arts Commission’s literature and performance awards. Molly has published a one-woman comedy drama, On Our Way to Somewhere, and a jazz novel, Listen. Her poetry appears in the 1995 Fishtrap Anthology and in her chapbook, Late Spring. Molly was a poet/performer for the 2006 Choochokam and Loganberry festivals on the island and she moderated the Poetry Panel for the 2007 WIWA Conference. Molly teaches for WIWA and leads creative writing workshops and readings on the Island. Photo
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- Lorraine Healy
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 An Argentinean poet, Lorraine Healy lives on Whidbey Island. Nominated
for a Pushcart in 2004, she has been published extensively. Lorraine
is a graduate from the New England College M.F.A and Antioch University
Los Angeles post-MFA programs. She has published two chapbooks,
and her first full-length manuscript is making the rounds of contests
and presses.
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Peter Lawlor
 Merchant seaman and World War II veteran Peter Lawlor comes from Wellington, New Zealand. Lawlor settled in San Francisco after the war where he was influenced by the beat poets. His varied career path included mountain climbing guide, ski instructor, fishing guide, outdoor columnist for San Francisco and later Santa Fe, New Mexico newspapers. Hailed as Poet Laureate of Whidbey Island, he has four published poetry books. He lives in a cottage by the beach near the ferry in Clinton.
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Nancy Pagh
 Nancy Pagh’s No Sweeter Fat won the 2006 Autumn House Press book competition and was published in 2007. Thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry Northwest, The Bellingham Review, Crab Creek Review, Rattle, Pontoon, and Rock Salt Plum. Born and raised in Anacortes, Washington, Nancy worked in the scientific publications unit of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Seattle before earning advanced degrees from the University of New Hampshire and the University of British Columbia. Her first book, At Home Afloat, is a study of women’s travel language at sea. Nancy lives in Bellingham and teaches writing at Western Washington University.
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