Sierra Nelson
Organization Details
| Name | Sierra Nelson |
| URL | http://songsforsquid.tumblr.com/ |
Organization Description
| Mission statement | Sierra Nelson is a Seattle-based poet, performing artist, multidisciplinary collaborator and teaching artist working in Washington for over seventeen years. Earning her B.A. in English from Vassar College (1997) and M.F.A. in Poetry from University of Washington (2002), she has taught through Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program at McClure Middle School, Port Townsend High School, and Seattle Children’s Hospital. She has also taught innovative creative writing youth intensives through Centrum’s Middle School Explorations in Port Townsend and Hugo House’s Scribes Program in Seattle, and teaches adults through University of Washington’s Creative Writing in Rome Program, U.W.’s Friday Harbor Marine Labs on San Juan Island, and at the Hugo House. She has also been a guest teaching artist at Seattle’s juvenile detention, Seattle and King County Public Libraries, International District Community Center, Ballard High School, the Seattle Aquarium, and elsewhere. |
| Service(s) description | Literary Art or Spoken Word/Performance Poetry, Theater, Multidisciplinary |
| Program impact | not provided |
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