Priscilla Long

Priscilla Long is author of six books, most recently, Holy Magic(MoonPath Press), which won the Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award. Her book on thriving while aging, Dancing with the Muse in Old Age, is forthcoming from Epicenter/Coffeetown Press in 2022. She is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, creative nonfiction, science, history, and fiction, and a long-time independent teacher of writing. Her first book of poems is Crossing Over: Poems(University of New Mexico Press). Her other books include The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writer's Life (University of New Mexico Press), a collection of memoirist essays, Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (University of Georgia Press), and Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators(Coffeetown).Her first book is Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry (Paragon Press). She serves as founding and consulting editor of HistoryLink.org, the free online encyclopedia of Washington state history. She grew up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.