OUR TEAM

Asha Berkes     Director of Writing Programs

asha@write253.org


Asha Berkes is a poet and educator living in Tacoma, Washington. At the University of Puget Sound they studied English Creative Writing with minors in African American Studies and Gender and Queer Studies. Find them riding his bike around town or sitting by the Sound gluing leaves into their journal.



BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Updated March 2025


Dale King (Acting President/Treasurer)

Burl Battersby  (Secretary)

Luke Byram (Vice President)

Tashawn Deville

Wendy Holcomb

Fahren Johnson

Lori Parrish

Tabitha Plotke

Abby Shade