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About the Speakers
RENA PRIEST
Editor of I Sing the Salmon Home
Rena Priest is an enrolled member of the Lummi Nation. She served as the 6th Washington State Poet Laureate (2021-2023) and is the editor of the anthology I Sing the Salmon Home, winner of a 2024 Washington State Book Award. She is also the author of two poetry collections and Northwest Know-how: Beaches, an "entertaining, educational and highly giftable" guide to the beaches of the Pacific Northwest. Learn more at renapriest.com.
HOLLY J. HUGHES
Co-publisher, Empty Bowl Press
Holly J. Hughes is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hold Fast, coauthor of The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, and editor of several anthologies. Her fine-art chapbook Passings received an American Book Award in 2017. She is co-publisher of Empty Bowl Press and directs Flying Squirrel Studio, which offers residencies for women. She divides her time between a log cabin in Indianola and her home in the Chimacum valley and is grateful to the Chemakum, S’Klallam and Suquamish peoples for their ongoing stewardship of the land and waters she calls home.
JOSEPH BOGAARD
Executive Director of Save Our wild Salmon Coalition
Joseph Bogaard began working for the Save Our wild Salmon Coalition (SOS) in 1996; he’s served as executive director for the last twelve years. He first got hooked on Northwest salmon restoration efforts while in graduate school in the early-1990s, when he authored a paper exploring the then-relatively recent Snake River salmon listings under the Endangered Species Act, and how it might impact the region and its federal lands, waters and dams. Before joining the SOS team, Joseph spent years teaching and working in the forests and mountains of the West.
Join us to hear poetry and prose from...
- Seth Zuckerman will read from Empty Bowl Press’s A Watershed Runs Through You by Freeman House. He is the executive director of the Seattle-based forestry nonprofit, Northwest Natural Resource Group.
- Katy E. Ellis, Vashon poet, is the author of the novel-length prose poem Home Water, Home Land (Tolson, 2022). Her forthcoming poetry collection Forty Bouts in the Wilderness (MoonPath, 2025) was First Runner Up for the 2024 Sally Albiso Award.
- Kathryn True, Vashon poet and writer, volunteers with Vashon Nature Center connecting people with nature. She is co-author of Nature in the City: Seattle (Mountaineers Books).
- Ann Spiers, Poet Ann Spiers, Vashon’s inaugural Poet Laureate, served as Vashon Land Trust staff, president of Audubon (Bird Allies), and field assistant in the Cascade volcanoes. She writes island conservation land signage.
- Audrey Sterud Miller is an enrolled member of the Puyallup tribe and currently goes to the Science and Math Institute as a freshman. In her free time, she enjoys writing books or poetry, playing electric guitar, and reading an unorthodox amount of queer romance novels. When she isn’t doing that, she’s furiously completing duolingo lessons or babysitting her younger siblings. She lives on her spiritual land and practices twulshootseed with her mother and brother, hoping to one day become a fluent speaker. huyəxʷ čəd.
Books Available for Purchase
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I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State, Edited by Rena Priest, Empty Bowl, Chimacum WA, 2023. $20.
*2024 Washington State Book Award Winners Announced!
*Washington State Book Awards 2024 winners announced | The Seattle Times
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A Watershed Runs Through You, by Freeman House, Essays, Talks, and reflections on Salmon, Restoration, and Community, Empty Bowl, Chimacum WA, 2023. $25.
More information at www.emptybowl.org.
An Evening of Poetry and Prose on November 14th
Land Trust Building | 10014 SW Bank Rd, Vashon
This event is hosted by Save Our wild Salmon Coalition, Empty Bowl Press, and Vashon Poets Laureate with support from the Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust, Vashon Nature Center, Vashon Bird Alliance.