Talking Earth Anthology:   Dave Jarecki

Dave Jarecki owns Breakerboy Communications, a writing firm that helps businesses, individuals and non-profit organizations communicate through story. He facilitates writing workshops throughout the Greater Portland area. His fiction, non-fiction and poetry have appeared in a number of journals and publications. He and his wife Courtney live in NE Portland with their baby daughter, Lazadae,  and Dave has been writing a lot about parenthood.

Talking Earth Anthology:  Judith Arcana

Judith Arcana is a writer, teacher and activist who has taught literature, writing and interdisciplinary topics in women’s studies in high schools, colleges, libraries, living rooms, a state prison and a county jail. She holds a PhD in Literature, an MA in Women's Studies, an Urban Preceptorship in Preventive Medicine and a BA in English. A native of the Great Lakes region, she lives now in the Pacific Northwest.

Talking Earth Anthology:   Poems by M.F. McAuliffe

M.F. McAuliffe  is a writer, editor, and photographer who made

her US publishing debut in Damon Knight's Clarion Awards. 

Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Overland, The Adelaide Review,

Talking Earth Anthology:  Harold Johnson

Harold Johnson was born  in Yakima and is a lifelong resident

of the Pacific Northwest.   He graduated with degrees in English

and art from the University of Portland and PSU,  and taught English