About Shack Medicine Poets

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Georgia Johnson lives on a small farm on Fidalgo Island, on Coast Salish ancestral land, surrounded by salt water, alfalfa, mixed forest, in the company of husband, cat and a host of resident critters. She has made her way in the world by teaching, cooking, baking, meddling, and writing. Finding Beet Seed was published by Desert Rose Press (2000). Just Past Dew Point was published by Flying Trout Press (2017). She has been published in a few anthologies and magazines. She is a longtime member of the Skagit River Poetry Foundation, bringing poetry into the school districts of Skagit County, Washington State. Her recipes find their way into her local newspaper. With Michael Daley she co-edited the Madrona Poetry Series Cookbook (2023) and co-creates and hosts the Madrona Poetry Series Readings in Anacortes Washington.

Randall Dills is a former academic and day laborer. He lives in a small cottage on a wooded farm on Fidalgo Island in the Pacific Northwest on land belonging to the Coast Salish People and the Swinomish Tribal Community. He lived and taught in the American Midwest and South before returning to the place of his birth near the Salish Sea in rural northwest Washington State. His academic work appeared in several publications. His poetry has appeared in Terrain, The Madrona Project, CIRQUE, The Eastern Iowa Review and fiction in The WRITOracle.  He was featured at the Museum of Northwest Art's 2024 Roots Symposium and Canopy Art’s 2025 Blanchard Mountain Rendezvous. He is a board member of the Robert Sund Poet's House Trust, and a dues-paying supporter of the San Miguel chapter of PEN International.

HIs first collection, The Universe at the Point of Contraction, from FutureCycle Press, was published in February 2023.