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Karin Lin-Greenberg’s fiction piece, “Perspective for Artists” is featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? Although this piece is about students studying art, it sprang from my contemplation about whether writing can be taught. As someone who makes my …

Clayton Clark’s poem, “The Laws of Motion”  is featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? I like to integrate scientific topics, especially health and the human body, into my poems, and as a result, I usually end …

Jennifer Bullis’ poem “Amanda Bubbles Crafts a New Creation Story” is featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? For the past several years, to make up for a deficit in my earlier education, I’ve been reading mythology. …

Caitlin Scarano’s poems, “Twenty Years” and “For the Occasion,”  are featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? I wrote “Twenty Years” in November 2014. That semester, I was in a graduate poetry workshop taught by the very talented …

Eric Maroney’s story “Uncertain Origins” is featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? Uncertain Origins was a conscious attempt to write a new kind of story. I am deeply drawn to stories with Jewish themes and issues, and …

Suzanne Sigafoos’ essay “Green” is featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? As I read “Green” in its current shape, here in Volume 71, I remember an over-the-top feeling as I worked on the first draft: I was …

Kelly Fine’s essay “Shadows and Smoke” is featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? “Shadows and Smoke” is a slightly altered excerpt from a longer essay, “Sabbath,” about savoring the world’s beauty when there are so many reasons …

Jo Brachman’s “In the Air” is featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? The path of the poem becomes clearer over time. I had no idea at first where “In the Air” was going, and did …

Maya Jewell Zeller’s essay “He Worked as an Electrician. He Enjoyed Television. (His Obituary was Plain.)” is featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? I think this essay serves as part elegy, part confession, part meditation. I …

Melissa Matthewson’s creative nonfiction piece, “As Snow Designs” is featured in Issue 71 of the Bellingham Review. What would you like to share with our readers about the work you contributed to the Bellingham Review? “As Snow Designs” actually began in a lecture on juxtaposition in poetry and prose given by Danielle Cadena Deulen at a Vermont College …