Molly Gilmore
Molly Gilmore has written for many years on arts, culture and entertainment. She writes for OLY ARTS, The Olympian, The News Tribune and a variety of other South Sound publications. Articles
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Guy Bergstrom
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 …
Christina Butcher
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
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, …
Kelli Samson
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.
Kristopher Stewart
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 …
Adam McKinney
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
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
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 …