 Photo by Libby Lewis. |
Poet and teaching artist Laura Gamache earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington in 1993, and directed the UW MFA Writers in the Schools program from 1993 to 2002. She is a two-time Jack Straw Writers Program fellow, for 1999 and 2002. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, nothing to hold onto, in 2005. Her poems and teaching essays have appeared in many print and on-line journals, including Teachers & Writers Collaborative Press Journal, Menacing Hedge, Sixfold Poetry Journal, The Far Field, Washington State Poet Laureate, and others.
Since 1992, she has written with and been inspired by students from five-year-olds through elder adults. She currently works in classrooms through Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers in the Schools Program, and was Sprague/Williamson Writer in Residence in Chiloquin, Oregon for nine weeks each fall during 2008, 2009 and 2010. She walks, writes, reads and teaches in Seattle, where she lives with her husband, Jim. |