Edge Effects

A Case for Solace is Liz Ahl's second full-length poetry collection, recently released in October 2022 from Lily Poetry Review Books. Liz was tinkering with the manuscript that became this book during her Spring 2019 residency, and was working on edits to the accepted...

Miriam Gershow's second book, SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES, will be released in March 2024 from Propeller Books. The collection spans 20 years of her story writing career and includes three stories born in magical Cabin 6 in March 2022 (with my dear friend, Cai Emmons, next...

The work David Carmack Lewis created during his 2013 PLAYA residency, and the entire experience of being at Playa, sitting around the fireplace in the evenings and contemplating the remnants of the Toolbox Complex wildfire along the slopes of Winter Ridge, was the beginnings of a four year project, a visual essay called “A God in the Hearth”. The work explores humanity’s deep connection to fire and the implications of our dependence on fossil fuels, including the increasing risks of wildfire in the American West.

Charles Goodrich’s new poetry collection, WATERING THE RHUBARB (Flowstone Press) includes several poems composed during his residency at PLAYA. His first novel, WEAVE ME A CROOKED BASKET will be published by the University of Nevada Press in Fall 2023. It’s an unconventional love story involving a makeshift coalition of farmers, artists, scientists, and community members who turn a small organic farm into a work of art to save it from unscrupulous developers. Deep gratitude to PLAYA for a residency where I completed some pivotal chapters.

During the pandemic, Alex Hirsch was awarded a public art commission by Washington Arts Commission and Puyallup School District. She worked remotely with the committee, visited the campus using Covid precautions, and successfully completed the commission with the...

Started during his residency, PLAYA alum Charles Hood received a prize for his essay collection, titled A Salad Only A Devil Would Eat: the Joys of Ugly Nature. It won the Editor’s Choice Prize from Foreword, for being the best nonfiction book of 2021. In 2022, he...

Frances Ashforth was  selected to draw over 30  images for the book, ‘Headwaters’ by author & friend Dylan Tomine. The book was published by Patagonia Books in April, 2022. Ashforth toured with Tomine to NYC and Idaho where they shared conversations and thoughts...

Congratulations to PLAYA alum, Jennifer Gunlock on receiving a 2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Based in Los Angeles, Jennifer Gunlock received an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2003. She has exhibited nationally and in local venues such as...

Debora Coombs, from Readsboro, Vermont had a Paper published, for the very first time, at an international math conference in 2020 that resulted in a show at The 2021 Mathematical Art Exhibition "for aesthetically pleasing works that combine mathematics and art. Her...

Congratulations to PLAYA alum, Leslie Kirk Campbell on her debut novel. Leslie Kirk Campbell, of San Fransisco, California has had her debut novel, The Man With Eight Pairs Of Legs, a collection of fiction short stories, published by Sarabande Books in 2022. Campbell...