Ryan Boudinot is the founder of Seattle City of Literature, the organization that successfully lobbied for Seattle's inclusion in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. His novel Blueprints of the Afterlife (Grove Atlantic/Black Cat, 2012) was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award and has been published in translation in Spain and the Czech Republic. He published The Octopus Rises (2015) with Fantagraphics Books, collaborating with the comic book publisher’s art department on the unique design and typography. His debut collection The Littlest Hitler (Counterpoint, 2006) was a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. He lives in Seattle, where he works in the immersive media industry.
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James Kaelan is a novelist, filmmaker, podcaster, and journalist. His first book, We're Getting On, was featured on the cover of Poets & Writers 2010 debut fiction issue. His films, performances, and VR experiences have shown at Sundance, Slamdance, Tribeca, Cannes, and AFI FEST, amongst others, and have been profiled in publications from VICE to The New Yorker. Kaelan holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University, and is currently an interdisciplinary MFA fellow at UC Davis—where he's working on a new novel/utopian community experiment. What could go wrong?!
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Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Waiting to Be Heard (HarperCollins, April 2013). Between 2007 and 2015, she spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit. Amanda is currently the host of The Scarlet Letter Reports, a VICE/Facebook series about the public vilification of women, and The Truth About True Crime, a podcast series for Sundance/AMC. She lives in Seattle with her partner, the novelist Christopher Robinson.
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Christopher Robinson is a Boston University and Hunter College MFA graduate, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist. His writing has appeared in many publications, including The Kenyon Review and McSweeney’s. Gavin Kovite was an infantry platoon leader in Baghdad from 2004-2005. He attended NYU Law and is now an Army lawyer. His writing has appeared in literary magazines and in Fire and Forget, an anthology of war fiction. Together, Robinson & Kovite have authored one previous novel, War of the Encylopaedists (Scribner, 2015), which Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called "Spirited...a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac."
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