Everyday Writing and Book Marketing with Midge Raymond 4/21/15

Midge Raymond's short-story collection, Forgetting English, received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, and many other publications. Her work has received several Pushcart Prize nominations and received an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship.Midge taught communication writing at Boston University for six years, and she has taught creative writing at Boston's Grub Street Writers and Seattle's Richard Hugo House. While living in Southern California, she held writing workshops and seminars at San Diego Writers, Ink, where she also served as vice president of the board of directors.In addition to being a published fiction writer and journalist, she has worked as an editor and copywriter with such publishing houses as Penguin, St. Martin's Press, Bantam Dell, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Midge lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is co-founder of the boutique publisher Ashland Creek Press.