Current Residents

Kelly Terwilliger is a poet, oral storyteller and maker of art who grew up in a family of biologists. Her work in its various forms delights in multivocality, dialogue, and wonder—that mingling of curiosity and awe which engenders both questions you can answer and...

Patricia Contaxis' writing appears in The Coachella Review, The Loch Raven Review, Pithead Chapel, Wrath-bearing Tree, Rivanna Review, The Pluralist, San Antonio Review, and Notes From The Seashore. She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the California...

Shawn Skabelund (MFA, The University of Iowa, 1990) is an artist and curator working in landscapes to reveal their complex issues, ecologies, and cultural histories. For thirty years, he has been a successful site-specific, place-based installation artist, creating...

Rebecca Burrell (she/they) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Portland, Oregon. She is a 2024 graduate of Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she received an MFA in Applied Craft + Design and an MA in Critical Studies. In all her work, she...

Susan Circone is a fiber artist based in the Portland, Oregon area. Her work explores the minutiae of the physical and natural world, finding inspiration in its structures, textures, and forms. The slow process of stitching is used for mark-making and construction,...

Katharine Cashman is a volcanologist who studies links between chemical and physical factors that control magma ascent, eruption, and emplacement on the Earth’s surface. She received her doctorate from The Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and accepted a faculty...

Helen Lessick is a visual and public artist and creative catalyst originally from Philadelphia. She travelled west to earn her BA in Art from Reed College and MFA in Studio Art from the University of California Irvine. She was awarded Pollock Krasner and Bonnie...

Eve Müller lives in Eugene, Oregon with her sweetheart. She has recently published in Camas, Sequestrum, The Writing Disorder, Thieving Magpie, and Empty House. Some of her work has been anthologized, and her chapbook, Guide to the Ruins, was published by Plan B...

Ocean is a disabled novelist, poet, and visual artist working in pararealist themes. www.mirrorflower.org @mirrorflower_ocean