Writers who only appear rarely in our pages, but must be tagged as “writer”
Rosemary Ponnekanti is a multimedia storyteller and data analyst. For 11 years, she was an arts and features reporter for The News-Tribune in Tacoma, Washington. Before that, she was the editor in chief of ArtsHouston magazine. She holds a master’s degree in communication in digital media from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree …
Guy Bergstrom is a speechwriter and speech coach and is a member of the Professional Speechwriters Association. He is also an award-winning reporter and a contributing editor to Criminal Element and The Big Thrill. He now hosts the popular writing and pop culture blog The Red Pen of Doom. He was a contributing writer for The New York …
Melinda Minton is new to Olympia and feels right at home in this incredible community. She has authored five books and countless articles.She is a spa and wellness expert who has lived and traveled around the world. Her favorite people are the ‘cannibals” of Irian Jaya in Indonesia. The arts are a part of the …
Christina Butcher is a linguist by profession and, in her free time, a published poet and book reviewer. She’s worked on several cultural preservation projects, including story archives for Yukon First Nations elders, and developed a passion for storytelling and community involvement. She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from New Mexico State University and …
Jennifer Crain is a freelance writer based in the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in print and online in national publications, regional magazines, trades, and newsletters. She is committed to good food, a subject she explore as a regular contributor to Edible Seattle, where she has written about indigenous fishers, mushroom farming, organic cranberry production, …
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 …
Karen Lunde has been writing professionally since she was fifteen years old and covered high school basketball for her small-town newspaper, even though she was clueless about sports. In the late ’90s, she founded one of the first online workshops for writers, which was featured in articles about online education in The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, …