Iris Graville is a writer and independent publisher from Lopez Island, WA. Her profiles and personal essays have been published in national and regional journals and magazines. Her first book,
Hands at Work—Portraits and Profiles of People Who Work with Their Hands, received numerous awards including a Nautilus Book Award and Independent Publishers Award. Her personal essay, “Boris’s Bluff,” received first place in the student category
Oregon Quarterly Magazine’s 2013 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest. The essay recounts an experience from her memoir-in-progress,
Hiking Naked—A Quaker Woman’s Search for Balance, a personal narrative of what Graville learned in the remote mountain village of Stehekin, WA about work, community, and leadings of the Spirit (as well as dealing with six feet of snow in the winter, ordering groceries by mail, and living without a telephone). She is a student in the MFA in Creative Writing Program of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts.