Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, fiction, and history.
She is author of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry (1989). Her essays, short stories, and poems appear in The Southern Review, Raven Chronicles, North Dakota Quarterly, The American Scholar, Ontario Review, Seattle Review, Chattahoochee Review, Passages North, The Gettysburg Review, Under The Sun, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
She serves as Senior Editor of www.HistoryLink.org, the online encyclopedia of Washington state history.
She has an MFA degree from the University of Washington and teaches writing. To check out Priscilla's current course offerings and upcoming readings and presentation, click her Author's Guild website at www.PriscillaLong.com.
In 2006 her work "Genome Tome" received a National Magazine Award for Best Feature. It appeared in The American Scholar, edited by Robert Wilson. Her awards also include the Richard Hugo House Founder's Award and awards from the Seattle Arts Commission and the Los Angeles Arts Commission.
She reads her poetry and prose widely, and performed with the Seattle Five Plus One poets during most of the group's existence in the 1990s.
She was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and grew up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Her grandparents on her mother's side were Pennsylvania Dutch. Her paternal grandmother was Scottish, and her paternal grandfather, Walter Long, was descended from the Winslow family, English farmers who migrated to New England in the 1600s.
Walter Long was a reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin and his grandfather, Stephen Winslow (1826-1907), edited the Philadelphia Commercial List and was known as “the grand old man in the newspaper life of Philadelphia.”
Priscilla Long lives in Seattle.
Photo by Richard Harrison
Work Sample: Creative Nonfiction
Contact Me:PriscillaLong@comcast.net