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The Widow Cameron is the new project of poet and songwriter Cameron McGill. Originally from Champaign, IL, he is the author of Meridians (Willow Springs Books) and In the Night Field (Augury Books) and has released seven albums, most recently 2022’s The Widow Cameron. He lives and writes and plays the piano in Moscow, Idaho.       

Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Depth Control, a collection of genre-bending essays out in 2025 from Unsolicited Press. Her second book, Woman House: Essays and Assemblages, was awarded the 2025 Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction and will be published in 2026 by the University of Massachusetts Press. Westerfield’s essays and poetry have most recently appeared in FENCE, Seneca Review, Willow Springs, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Ninth Letter. She teaches in the English department at Washington State University, where she serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review, and lives in Spokane, WA.

Michael McGriff is an author, editor, and translator whose work centers on the intersection of surrealism with place, working-class narratives, and poverty in the rural American West.

Oscar Oswald grew up in the southwest, and hopped around the northwest and the Mojave before landing in the Palouse. His interests in poetry include modernist and postmodernist writers such as Barbara Guest, Lorine Niedecker, and Erin Moure, as well as global literatures and especially Eastern European and Latin American traditions.

The mission of Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse is to empower individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, and stalking. They work to create a safe and equitable community through education and prevention.