Boundless
A Collective of ColorFull Writers
We are a small group of writers who are enthralled by the art of language and it’s capacity to speak about and to worlds known and not so familiar. While our bodies are currently rooted on what has recently been called the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, the DNA of our bodies is spread across the varied diasporas of the People of the Global Majority (PGM).
The place is important because we believe in the entanglement of relationships with the more-than-human world and how it becomes the ground of our writing. While our work does not necessarily address life in this particular place, we want to acknowledge that it likely has molded our literary sensibilities as much as anything.
Our goal is to cultivate the literary arts among our kin, PGM (aka BIPOC), here in this place we call as a way of placemaking and honing our collective and individual voices for no particular purpose other than our own edification and enjoyment. Through writing spaces, workshops, retreats and book clubs, hope to nurture the imagination and skill of our people to write, to speak, to be witnessed in truth telling, and to be known.
Lisbeth White
Lisbeth White is a writer and ritualist living on S’klallam and Chimacum lands of Port Townsend, WA. As a cross-genre writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, her writing explores the sensual and sociopolitical intersections of healing, ancestry, mythopoetics, and connection to the natural world. She is the author of the poetry collection American Sycamore (Perugia Press, '22) and co-editor of the anthology Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power (North Atlantic Books, '23).
Our founding core group includes:
Melissa O'Neil
Melissa is a mom, writer, and activist who has worked as both a teacher and a librarian. Melissa has spent the last 20+ years as an activist with a focus on social justice, racial equity, and environmental protection. She is a spirited and spiritual leader and an uber mama
ready to reset broken systems for the health of all of our community’s children.
JooRi Jun
JooRi has always been drawn to bridge the visible and invisible worlds. She is a naturopathic physician, somatic practitioner, and ceremonialist. She is passionate about supporting people through life’s thresholds and believes that spirituality is an essential component of the foundations of health. She is committed to the work of decolonization and cultural reclamation and actively works toward liberation with a developmental and post-activist framework. She is of Korean ancestry and part of the Korean diaspora. Her emerging work will center spiritual support for those at end-of-life as well as ancestral reconnection on individual and collective levels. She offers her services in Korean and English.
Rufina Garay
Rufina is a peacemaker, lawyer, artist, chef, qigong teacher, tai chi practitioner, a podcaster on
farms, environment, and the intersections of society, culture, and race. She is partner to a
multi-creative chef-musician-artist, and mother to a highly energetic and bright 7-year old.
Oceana Sawyer
Oceana Sawyer is the author of “Life, Death, Grief, and the Possibility of Pleasure" which was self-published in 2022. She has been the editor for a magazine and literary newsletters including The Psychic Reader, The Scribbler, and Oceana’s Portal on Substack. “The Quay” a short story published in a local newspaper at the age of twelve began a lifelong love of creating short stories, essays, and poems for her own personal exploration and offered as provocation for others.
Beginning in 2023,
we will be offering
book clubs
community writing nights
writer workshops
writer retreats
reading events
