Writers who only appear rarely in our pages, but must be tagged as “writer”
Nora Kovacs is a Hungarian-American writer, printmaker and aspiring curator with a bachelor’s degree from New York University. She is particularly interested in art theory and contemporary art and has written extensively for A.I.R. Gallery in New York and Berlin Art Link in Germany. Nora is from St. Louis, Missouri, and is now based in …
McKenzie Murray is a writer and student at the University of Washington. She’s lived in Olympia for the past seven years. She’s written for Thurston Talk and Olympia High School’s literary magazine, Wayward, and received a gold medal from the Scholastic art and writing awards for her poetry.
Kelli Samson works as a high school English teacher, a blogger and a freelance writer based in Thurston County. She is a mother, friend, teacher, baker, writer, reader, film-watcher, and photographer. Contact any member of the OLY ARTS writing staff at editorial@olyarts.com.
Yvonne Joyce is a quilter, artist and writer recently retired to the Olympia area after many years in southern California, where she covered arts and culture for SB, Arts & Arts Southern CA, Arts Scene, the Orange County Register and other publications. Her work can be seen at the Olympia Arts Walk in 2018. Contact …
Kristopher Stewart is a freelance writer and college student in Washington state. After graduating from Timberline High School with three years of journalism experience on the staff of The Blazer, Timberline’s award-winning news magazine, he earned his associate’s degree from South Puget Sound Community College and is attending Western Washington University, where he’s studying computer …
Tom Simpson is a long-time writer for The West-Seattle Herald and a recent transplant to the Olympia region. He hails originally from Bellingham, Washington, where he also worked on the staff of The Bellingham Herald. Contact any member of the OLY ARTS writing staff at editorial@olyarts.com.
Noah Shachar is working on his B.S. in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, currently taking a leave of absence and working as a local barista. He writes poetry and fiction with whatever free-time he has and has finagled his work into OLY ARTS magazine, The Catalyst magazine and the Santa Barbara Independent newspaper. Noah …