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.
Jonah Barrett is a recent graduate of The Evergreen State College. He was senior coordinator and editor of TESC literary journal Vanishing Point. Jonah lives in Olympia: he is from Tenino Washington.
Adam McKinney has been writing professionally since 2009, doing his part to document the ever-changing music and arts scene in the South Sound. He has co-produced the Squeak and Squawk Music Festival, written a terrible dating column, and contributed a chapter for the book Showtime in Tacoma. When he’s not writing about pop culture, he …
Christian Carvajal is an author, director, actor, writer and columnist in northwestern Washington state and a communications consultant for Washington DSHS. He was OLY ARTS‘ founding, managing editor for two years and editor emeritus for two years after that. He has been a regular, freelance contributor to the publication. Carvajal is also a novelist, whose …
Ned Hayes is the author of three novels and a freelance journalist. His work appeared in The Seattle Weekly, The Bellingham Herald, The Olympian, The Pasadena Weekly, Oregon ArtsWatch and many other publications. In recent years, he has been a core product leader at Adobe Systems, Xerox PARC, Microsoft, and Intel. Ned helped to launch OLY …