Ann Spiers was the inaugural Poet Laureate of Vashon Island. She served as Vashon Audubon president and as the Land Trust’s staff overseeing volunteer stewards and compiling property baselines. She stewards the Vashon Poetry Post in the Village Green. She writes signage for Vashon’s many conservation parks. For almost 30 years, she’s met with friends at Mondays at Three, to share haiku. Her 2021-22 poetry books include Rain Violent (Empty Bowl), Back Cut (Black Heron), and Harpoon (Ravenna Triple Series). See AnnSpiers.com for more.

Sandra Noel works as a free-lance illustrator and graphic designer developing environmental education posters, brochures, exhibits and interpretive signs. She is Poet Laureate for Vashon Island for 2021-23. Her poems have appeared in "Buddhist Poetry Review," "Elohi Gadugi Journal," and other journals. Chapbooks include The Gypsy in my Kitchen and Into the Green (Finishing Line Press), The River (Kelsay Press), Unraveling the Endless Knot (Middle Creek Publishing & Audio), and a full-length poetry book Love, Island (Goldfish Press). More information can be found at www.noeldesigninterp.

Tom Amorose is Professor of English & Cultural Studies at Seattle Pacific University.  He teaches early-English literatures and researches the rhetoric of public values, including environmental values.

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