Blue & Ude Writer's Services - Bios, meet the authors.

Marian Blue:
Marian's award winning fiction, poetry, essays, and non-fiction have appeared internationally in newspapers (such as The Denver Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Virginian-Pilot, and The Oregonian), magazines (such as Cruising World, ACM -- Another Chicago Magazine -- Colorado Review, and forthcoming in Snowy Egret, Eureka Literary Magazine, and Raven Chronicles) and books (such as The Tiller and the Pen--anthology/Eighth Moon Press-- and A Hundred White Daffodils -- a Jane Kenyon anthology from Graywolf Press). Marian is currently an editor for One World Journeys , an online production combining wilderness expeditions and environmental education. She has also been a newspaper editorial page editor and press release editor; she's worked as an assistant editor and as a poetry editor for literary magazines. Marian has taught writing for community schools in Portland, Oregon and Old Dominion University in Virginia. She currently teaches creative writing, journalism and related courses for Skagit Valley College in Washington, as well as for Writer's Digest Schools.

Wayne Ude:
Wayne is the author of three published books of fiction: A novel, Becoming Coyote; a collection of stories; Buffalo & Other Stories; and an award winning children's book, Maybe I will Do Something: Seven Tales of Coyote. His short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous prestigious publications. He has taught creative writing for over seventeen years at both collegiate and university levels as well as having served as Director and Editor in many capacities during his ongoing career. He is currently the Director of the low-residency MFA program, Whidbey Writers Workshop, Whidbey Island Writers Association on Whidbey Island, Washington. The Whidbey Island Writers Association, an organization created by writers for writers, also offers an annual writers' conference, many retreats and workshops during the year, classes, an online newsletter; the organization also published the anthology "Sea of Voices, Isle of Story," edited by Celeste Mergens and Marian Blue.