Janée Baugher holds an MFA in Creative Writing, with emphases in Literature and Literary Editing & Design, from Eastern Washington University. Her writing has been widely published and she's been featured on Seattle's NPR. Baugher has collaborated with numerous visual artists, as well as had her poetry adapted for the stage and set to music. Baugher's poetry manuscripts Coordinates of Yes and The Body's Physics have been finalists at Carnegie Mellon Press and Black Lawrence Press. She teaches at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle and at Interlochen Center for the Arts.
How Did the Writers and Artists of the "Lost Generation" Ignite the 20th Century?
After World War I many American writers felt disillusioned and culturally bereft. Choosing to escape the growing US conservatism, many writers relocated to Paris, which in the 1920s was the artistic hub of the modern world and hosted a lively community of international thinkers, such as James Joyce and Pablo Picasso. The American expatriates, dubbed the "lost generation," included novelists (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stein), poets (Eliot, Pound), and publishers (e.g. Sylvia Beach). The "avant-garde" writers and artist at that time celebrated a "new psychology," forged important relationships, and launched artistic movements (e.g. Dadaism, Surrealism), which resulted in work that defied past conventions.
