Owner of Dancing Moon Press, CARLA PERRY received a BA in Creative Writing/Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, with a minor in Mandarin Chinese and printmaking. She spent the last twenty years as a freelance technical writer, ghostwriter, grantwriter and photographer. Former clients include Intel Corporation, Sequent Computers, Bonneville Power Administration, hospitals, banks, political candidates and the City of Portland. She was the co-writer and publisher of Wild Dog Magazine, and editor and publisher of Talus & Scree International Literary Journal.

   Perry was the founder and director of both the monthly Nye Beach Writers' Series and Writers On The Edge, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the literary arts. Over 250 literary performances and workshops were held between June 1997 and November 2004, which is when Perry stepped down as director. Writers On The Edge is still holding readings, workshops and special events in Newport, Oregon. www.writersontheedge.org.

   Carla Perry was the winner of the Stewart Holbrook Special Award at the 2002 Oregon Book Awards for her "outstanding contribution to Oregon's literary life" Oregon Book Award. She received the Governor's Art Award in 2003 for her efforts promoting literary arts on the coast. She has been awarded three writing residencies (Caldera and Soapstone in Oregon, and The Morris Graves Artists residency in California). Her poetry, short stories, and photographs of writers appear frequently in regional and national publications. She is the author of two collections of poetry and is working on a novel set in New York City in the 1960s, for which she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship.

Additional links:
Tin House interview of Ken Kesey

"The White Crosses At Nye Beach" - Oregon Literary Review

Portland (Oregon) Business Journal

Writers On The Edge bio

Owner of Karen Downs Graphic Design.

KAREN DOWNS graduated from Mt. Angel College in Oregon with a BA in Creative Art and a minor in Psychology.

She has been a graphic designer since 1981, successfully designing and executing a range of commercial graphics projects including book covers, logos, collateral materials, letterhead and signage for a variety of businesses and corporations including motels, restaurants, therapists, chiropractors, physicians and hospitals.

Current and former clients include Coffee People, Java Jacket, Providence Milwaukie Hospital, Portland Gas & Electric, PPM Energy. and C. Norman Winningstad.

klouise@integraonline.com