Long, Priscilla: - Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based writer of science, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and history, and a longtime independent teacher of writing.
She is the founding and consulting editor of HistoryLink.org, the free online encyclopedia of Washington state history.
Christopher Hitchens called her first book, a history of coalmining titled Where the Sun Never Shines, an intense and accomplished social history (New York Newsday).
Her book of memoirist creative nonfictions is Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (University of Georgia Press).
She is the recipient of a National Magazine Award for a science-oriented piece titled Genome Tome, which appeared in The American Scholar.
Her weekly science column, Science Frictions, ran for 92 weeks at The American Scholar online.
Her how-to-write guide is The Writer\'s Portable Mentor (University of New Mexico Press).
Her most recent book, Holy Magic (MoonPath Press), won the Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award.
Long, Priscilla: - Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based writer of science, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and history, and a longtime independent teacher of writing
