I am a Seattle-based  writer, poet, and independent teacher of writing. I grew up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. My latest book is Holy Magic: Poems (MoonPath Press, 2020). I am author of The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, 2nd Edition (University of New Mexico Press, 2018); a book of creative nonfictions titled Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (University of Georgia Press, 2016); Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators (Coffeetown Press, 2016); Crossing Over: Poems (University of New Mexico Press, 2015); The Writer’s Portable Mentor 1st Edition (Wallingford Press, 2010); and Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry (Paragon House Publishers, 1989). My weekly science column, Science Frictions, appeared every Wednesday on The American Scholar website for 90 weeks (2011–2013). Go to: http://theamericanscholar.org/the-comple... [2] My shorter works include science, poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction. My work has appeared in The Tampa Review, Smithsonian, The Gettysburg Review, The Chariton Review, Women's Review of Books, Cold Mountain Review, Post Road, Raven Chronicles, The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, New Orphic Review, Web Conjunctions, Alaska Quarterly Review, Stringtown, Fourth Genre, Passages North, Bosque, and elsewhere. My MFA is from the University of Washington and I serve as Founding and Consulting Editor of www.historylink.org [3], the online encyclopedia of Washington state history. For more information please visit www.PriscillaLong.com [4].