Meet Our Authors

For more than 70 years Sulima has found writing (in Toni Morrison’s words) to be a way of … not just feeling, but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic, or just sweet. She considers herself lucky to have been able to learn through direct experience, and not without scars, to accept Life with a capital L on its own terms … a fragile weave of light & dark, joy & sorrow, grace & grit … and to write about it using words that both trudge and dance. Sulima has published four books to date and has another in the works.

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Visit Sulima at sulimamalzin.net.

Carolyn journeyed from New Jersey through California to Oregon, where she traded academic papers and business books for poetry, the form she discovered best captures how her mind interacts with the world. With poems and reviews published in more than 200 journals worldwide, Carolyn seeks simple language that grapples with the complexity of being on earth right now. She won the 2025 Hudson-Fowler Prize in Poetry from the University of Central Arkansas. She currently serves as book review editor for the Oregon Poetry Association.

Visit Carolyn at carolynmartinpoet.com.

Lynn lives in Pennsylvania and slips down to New York City whenever she can to see a musical. A licensed clinical social worker and author, Lynn brings the same curiosity she has in the theater to the therapy room and the page. Her trauma-informed clinical work is rooted in parts work with gentle somatic and mindfulness tools, and her practice is LGBTQ+ affirming and welcoming to neurodiverse clients. Her debut children’s book, The Hallway of Doorknobs, turns the idea of inner “parts” into a warm, accessible story for kids and caregivers, and she is developing a companion workbook for therapists.

Maya writes from a house floating in the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her husband and their old cat, Dory. When not drafting chapters, she feeds neighborhood crows, paints, and protests with the Raging Grannies. Her Women’s Fiction explores the quiet empowerment of women’s lives, queer identity, and how longing and resilience shape experience. Maya also leads a twice-weekly Writing Cohort that helps fellow writers maintain momentum. Her debut novel, Painting Celia, begins the Incubadora series, and she is currently working on the second book.

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Visit Maya at bairey.com.

Wren is an artist and writer from the Pacific Northwest who grew up with her head stuck in books filled with monsters, werewolves, and vampires. She brings that love of the supernatural into her Cat Daddy Mysteries series, where a powerful black cat named Jericho solves brutal murders in the coastal town of Urchin Cove alongside sea monsters, haunted ships, and criminals lurking in the shadows. Wren weaves everyday observations into imaginative narratives where monsters and heroes are sometimes one and the same, creating worlds that offer readers an enjoyable escape. Her books include Bits and Pieces and Of Cats and Sea Monsters.