Valerie Miner
Morning Workshop Faculty
Valerie Miner is the award winning writer of 9 novels, 5 story collections and 2 books of non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Triquarterly, Salmagundi, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, over 60 anthologies, and on BBC Radio 4. Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she been on the faculty at Stanford University, U.C.…
Arkaitz Miner & Friends
Arkaitz Miner, violin
Teresa Jareño, alboka, dance
Caitlin Romtvedt, violin
David Romtvedt, accordion
Arkaitz Miner is a violinist, mandolinist, and guitarist with a background in traditional, European classical, and contemporary music. His musical sensibility derives from the close relationship he has with the traditional music of the Basque Country. …
Nia-Amina Minor
Faculty
Originally from Los Angeles, Nia-Amina Minor is a movement artist who resides in Seattle, WA. Her creative work converses with Black realities and investigates the intersection of movement, memory, and rhythm.Nia-Amina holds a MFA from UC Irvine and a BA from Stanford University. She has taught and guest lectured at University of Washington, Saddleback College, Cypress College, and UC Irvine.…
Tom Mitchell
Guitar
Tom Mitchell is a guitar player and singer rooted in the styles of the 1920’s and 30’s jazz, western swing, country blues and old-time music; he’s happily been both sideman and leader for a great variety of musical endeavors. In addition to singing and playing guitar, he’s played mandolin, banjo, tenor guitar or tiple when the need arose.…
Ayesha Mohyuddin
Ayesha Mohyuddin is a contemporary jewelry artist who explores identity, spirituality, and ways of knowing through body-related objects and performance. Ayesha is interested in capturing the complexities of home, history, and identity through material, ritual, performance, and eating. Her recent work uses food, cooking, and the tools of the kitchen to express the physicality of nostalgia, identity, and history.…
Bruce Molsky
New York State
Grammy-nominated Bruce Molsky transports audiences to another time and place, with his authentic and personal interpretations of rarities from the Southern Appalachian songbook and other musical traditions from around the globe. Best known for his work on the fiddle, Bruce’s banjo, guitar and his distinctive, powerful vocals also resonate with listeners.…
Sati Mookherjee
February 14, 2026 Reading
Sati Mookherjee is the author of Eye (2022), Ways of Being (2023) and the forthcoming collection Deś. She is Vice President of the Board of CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival.
Sarah Kate Morgan
Tennessee
mountain dulcimer
Born of Appalachian soil in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, Sarah Kate Morgan sings, plays, and writes like she’s been in these hills since the dawn of time. She’s had plenty of varied influences, beginning with hearing a classical music CD belonging to her family and going on to discover old time music through a dulcimer built by her grandfather.…
Dale Morris, Jr.
Violin
Dale Morris, Jr. began playing violin at age three. By the time he was ten years old, he began his professional career performing with the Bar-D Wranglers at the Bar-D Chuck Wagon Supper and Western Show in Durango Colorado. He performed there for the next three summers alongside his father, Dale Morris, Sr.…
Matt Morton
Afternoon Workshop Faculty
Matt Morton is the author of Improvisation Without Accompaniment (BOA Editions 2020), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, and the chapbook What Passes Here for Mountains (Carnegie Mellon 2022).…