Spring Meditation

Kevin Miller is an award-winning novelist and filmmaker. His debut novel, "Up the Creek," has sold over 40,000 copies and has topped Amazon.com's Canadian Literature best-seller list for over 17 weeks. Over the past 25 years, he has applied his craft to a wide range of projects, including feature films, documentaries, novels, non-fiction books, and comic books. He has also taught creative writing across Canada and the US as well as in the UK and Australia. Kevin has been featured on CBC Radio, CNN, and numerous other radio and TV outlets, and his work has been written about and reviewed in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Variety, the Globe and Mail, and the ​Vancouver Sun. To learn more about Kevin, visit www.kevinmillerxi.com.

Ansley is a writer and teacher from the Pacific Northwest. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Colorado Boulder and is the author of the chapbook Geography (dancing girl press, 2015). Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, swamp pink, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She currently works as the Director of the Writing Center at The Evergreen StateCollege and teaches poetry and mixed media workshops at local community arts organizations, including Hugo House in Seattle. She lives in Olympia, Washington with her dog.