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足彩app哪个是正规的 annual Spring Festival for the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program features readings and performances by graduating MFA candidates and a guest writer or artist. MFA candidates showcase selections from their MFA thesis projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Saturday, June 6, 2026| 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
University of Washington Bothell |  North Creek Events Center (NCEC)<\/strong>
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is requested<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Featured Readings by MFA Candidates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Asia Ashley-Emerson<\/strong>, if ever you know again<\/em>
Amanda Dawn Benningfield<\/strong>, Rations<\/em>
Zyaire Cheatham<\/strong>, What the Body Holds<\/em>
M. Marlene Elliott<\/strong>, Touching Trees<\/em>
Ashley Gilland<\/strong>, Verb Gazelle<\/em>
Erik Keevan<\/strong>, Malformation: A Remix Graphic Novel<\/em>
Leanne Machado<\/strong>, object-tivity<\/em>
Damien Oz<\/strong>, Void Hunter Survival (Wiki)<\/em>
Vitoria Ramos<\/strong>, Sanguine<\/em>
MK Reed<\/strong>, A Phoenix’s Saga<\/em>
Ricardo Ruiz<\/strong>, Doctrine of Echos<\/em>
Krista Sawyer<\/strong>, Listen Closely<\/em>
Adam Shen<\/strong>, Sophia<\/em>
Angelica Urquizo<\/strong>, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Other Mouth<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2026 Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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10:00 AM – 10:15 AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greetings and Opening Remarks
<\/strong>Joe Milutis, MFA Director<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15 AM – 11:30 AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel Readings #1
<\/strong>Amanda Dawn Benningfield
M. Marlene Elliott
Damien Oz
Leanne Machado
Adam Shen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30 AM – 11:40 AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel Readings #2
<\/strong>Asia Ashley-Emerson
Vitoria Ramos
MK Reed
Angelica Urquizo<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:45 PM – 1:15 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunch <\/strong>
Catering provided<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel Readings #3<\/strong>
Zyaire Cheatham
Ashley Gilland
Krista Sawyer
Erik Keevan
Ricardo Ruiz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:45 PM – 3:30 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benedictory Speaker<\/strong>
Nadine Maestas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toast and Reception<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Presenter Bios<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Asia Ashley-Emerson<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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if ever you know again<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asia Ashley-Emerson is a Chicago-born writer, artist, and facilitator whose work explores the interior lives of persons with intersectional identities. An Imagining America Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow, she works across writing, workshops, and event curation to create immersive experiences rooted in collective possibility and space holding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In poetry and speculative fiction, Asia\u2019s lyrical and sensorial approach examines how storytelling can transform lived memories into connection, reflection, and healing for both the self and the community. Her work has appeared in Hugo House\u2019s Chapbook, Clamor Literary Magazine, and several craft zines. If you would like to read more of Asia\u2019s writing or connect in any way, feel free to reach out at www.asiaashley.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amanda Dawn Benningfield<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Rations<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Dawn Benningfield is a writer from Boise, Idaho. 足彩app哪个是正规的y hold a BA in Film and Television from Boise State University and are currently pursuing their MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell. With a background in screenwriting, they work to blend together the sensory memory of watching a cult-classic flick with the playfulness of prose and poetics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zyaire Cheatham<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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What the Body Holds<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zyaire Cheatham is a writer from Seattle, Washington, whose work explores memory, the body, family, and the quiet moments that shape who we become. Zyaire’s work blends reflection with narrative, capturing the complexity of love, absence, and survival. She is currently focused on developing short fiction and personal essays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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M. Marlene Elliott<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Touching Trees<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

M. Marlene Elliott M. Marlene Elliott is a poet and novelist working at the intersection of surrealism and whimsy, drawing from nature for her palette. She and her dog Benny currently reside in North Seattle where she is in an intimate relationship with a red leaf.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ashley Gilland<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Verb Gazelle<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashley Gilland is a multimedia poet and fiber artist from Kansas City currently focused on embroidered handwriting and textile assemblage. She draws inspiration from diaries, stop motion animation, field guides, tide pooling, and recurring dreams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Erik Keevan<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Malformation: A Remix Graphic Novel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erik Keevans is a writer, poet, and digital artist living in Seattle, WA. Erik serves as the chair for HWA Seattle, President of Gamut literary series, and writer for the Victorian horror troupe Phantasmagoria. His work has been featured in Horror Tree\u2019s Trembling with Fear series, Clamor literary magazine, was a finalist in Quillkeeper Press’ Chapbook contest, and won the 2025 Camp Crypticon writing contest for best horror story. He is currently graduating with an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at University of Washington, as he has become sufficiently pretentious. Find his work and more about upcoming reading events at www.erikkeevan.me, or on Instagram at @ekeevan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Leanne Machado<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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object-tivity<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leanne Machado is an a creative writer who finds value in creating horror out of the average world, focusing on philosophical theories of anthropocentrism, human insignificance, speculative fiction and cosmic horror. She is inspired by video games, horror novels, her dreams, nature, and mundane objects of her everyday life. She is published in University of Washington-Bothell\u2019s 2025 and 2026 Clamor Journals, as well as in Abundance Literary Magazine Vol. 2, and HNDL\u2019s Hyperfocus Horror Issue 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nadine Antoinette Maestas<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a poet\u2019s poet and believes that the empire of the sentence is an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. She prefers the company of poems so much that she would rather read a bad poem than a good novel, but when she is not doing poetry, Nadine loves mountain biking and trail running in dangerous and remote places in the Pacific Northwest. She holds an M.F.A. from University of Michigan\u2019s Hellen Zell Writer\u2019s Program where she was awarded the Faraar award for playwriting. Her hybrid poem play \u201cHellen on Wheels: A Play of Rhyme and Reason\u201d was performed at California College of the Arts. She is the co-author with Karen Weiser of \u201cBeneath the Bright Discus\u201d (Potes & Poets Press, 2000), and is a co-editor for the poetry anthology Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia<\/em>. You can find her poems published in Ofrenda Magazine, Snail Trail Press, Pageboy Magazine, Lyric &, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Germ, Poor Mojo\u2019s Almana(k), Really Serious Literature Disappearing Chapbooks, and the bilingual anthology Make It True Meets Medusario<\/em>. Her dissertation, “Calling out the State: Postmodern American Anthropoetics” landed her a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Her first solo book, Imperialism As Sweet As Insult<\/em>, was published by Really Serious Literature Press in April 2021. She currently teaches at Cornish College of the Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Damien Oz<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Void Hunter Survival (Wiki)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damien Oz (he\/him) is a writer and poet, artist, musician, director, and voice actor based in the Pacific Northwest. He has his B.A. in English: Creative Writing from the University of Washington, Seattle, and by the time you read this, his MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics. Damien\u2019s poetics focus on the Dreamscape and the Void, the Supernatural, Spirituality, Physics, and Horror\u2013 though he cannot resist a comedic voice here and there. He is particularly passionate about audio drama, game-writing and design, video-making, and energy-work poetry. Incredibly \u201cnormal\u201d about \u201cdoors\u201d. Loves lemonade, stargazing, and wandering in the dark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Vitoria Ramos<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sanguine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vitoria Ramos is a queer femme poet and writer from the Pacific Northwest. Her writing bridges the connection of the self to the natural world, finding inspiration by exploring coastlines, looking up at the night sky or walking around her neighborhood. Vitoria has had work published with Silly Goose Press, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Hyperbolic Review, HNDL Magazine, Ancient News Technology and Clamor. When Vitoria is not writing she is making visual art, studying the timeline of the universe and tending to her cacti.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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MK Reed<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A Phoenix’s Saga<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MK Reed is the author of ten (and counting) graphic novels, the artist of several other comics, and a winner of an Oregon Book Award, for comics. 足彩app哪个是正规的ir thesis, despite their best intentions, is an experimental comic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ricardo Ruiz<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Doctrine of Echos<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricardo Ruiz is an award-winning writer of poetry and prose. 足彩app哪个是正规的 son of potato factory workers, he hails from Othello, Washington. Ricardo’s work is shaped by his experiences as a first-generation Mexican-American and U.S. Army combat veteran (11B). He holds an Associate Degree in Business and Accounting from Big Bend Community College, B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Washington (UW), and MFA in Creative Writing from UW Bothell. During his military service, Ricardo achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant and served on three deployments. His first poetry collection, We Had Our Reasons (Pulley Press, 2022), debuted #1 on Amazon\u2019s Hispanic-American Poetry Chart and won the Washington State Book Award. Passionate about amplifying marginalized voices from rural communities, Ricardo takes pride in serving as a cultural connector and advocate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Krista Sawyer<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Listen Closely<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krista Sawyer is a fiction writer whose work explores the intersection of psychological fiction, magical realism, and \u201cwhimsical horror.\u201d Writing across both poetry and prose, she is particularly interested in formal experimentation and the ways narrative structure can shape emotional experience. Her work has appeared in Silly Goose Press, Hyperfocus Horror, and 足彩app哪个是正规的 Corvus Review, among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Adam Shen<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Adam Shen first became interested in writing fiction and reading literature in high school. 足彩app哪个是正规的n, he studied philosophy in college, and later returned to writing after graduating. He has written a realist novel. His novel is about the drama of normal people living normal lives. His main character, Sophia, is shown in a braided narrative going between mostly 2008 and 2025 to show her growth, the changes, and the challenges she faces. He would like to thank his advisors Mattilda and Jeanne as well as his family and cohort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Angelica Urquizo<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Angelica Urquizo is a poet and collage artist who seeks magic in the mundane. She finds inspiration from the natural world, mythology, shadow work, and the overall human experience. She has publications in Silly Goose Press<\/em>, Genrepunk,<\/em> and Suburban Witchcraft,<\/em> among others. You can find her on a rainy day reading or watching the hummingbirds from her porch. To discover more about her work, find her on instagram @acraftyname.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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