The Cabin’s COIN Collaboration
May 5th from 9 AM - 4 PM MST
Now in its sixth consecutive season, COIN is The Cabin’s fundraiser through Idaho Gives Day on the first Thursday of May every year.
How does it work?
For every donation you give to support The Cabin, one of our writers will contribute a fresh line of poetry or prose sentence to a collaborative story that we'll be updating on Thursday, May 5th on The Cabin's website. (You can follow along here!)
Why donate?
You're not just buying prose sentences or lines of poetry. The Cabin's mission is to build community through the voices of all readers, writers, and learners. Donate today to keep our programs for youth and students across the Treasure Valley strong.
This year’s COIN authors
Meg Freitag was born in Maine. She earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has an MFA in Poetry from UT Austin's Michener Center for Writers, and an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first poetry collection, EDITH, was published by BOAAT Press in 2017. Individual poems have appeared in Tin House, Boston Review, and Black Warrior Review, among other journals. She's currently at work on a second poetry collection, a short story collection, and a novel. She lives and works in Boise, Idaho.
Mary Pauline Lowry is the author of the novel The Roxy Letters. Her work has appeared in O Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.
Instagram: @marypaulinelowry
Chris Mathers Jackson is a freelance writer and editor, an aspiring novelist, a teacher, a mom, an artist, and a lover of the natural world. Chris received her MA in English Literature from University of Montana in 2005. She taught English Composition at UM from 2003-2006, both during and following completion of her master’s (as a TA and then an adjunct instructor). She worked in the administration of Missoula International School from 2006-2010 before becoming a full-time freelance writer, editor, and graphic designer. After several years, she stopped doing design work professionally to focus on her growing family and her passion for the written word. In 2019 she established a book review website (LitReaderNotes). In addition to teaching, writing, and editing, Chris enjoys spending as much time outside as possible, adventuring both near and far, with her husband and two daughters.
Natalie Disney recently earned her MFA in creative writing from Boise State University, where she served as Associate Editor of The Idaho Review. Her work has been published in The Florida Review, The Mississippi Review, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the PEN America Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is a recipient of the 2017 Glenn Balch Award for fiction. She teaches writing at BSU and The Cabin Center for Readers and Writers and is at work on her first novel.
Instagram: @nataliedisney
Tracy Sunderland loves storytelling and the particular demands of writing plays and screenplays. Her short films have won multiple festival awards and her first feature film script Tailor played in festivals all over the world and won the 2021 Best Screenplay award at Festival 36 Mostra de Valencia in Spain. Tracy holds an MA in filmmaking from London Film School and received the 2015 Fellowship in Filmmaking from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. She also teaches at Boise State University and received the Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award in 2015.
Natanya Biskar is a fiction writer based in Boise, Idaho. She earned her MFA in fiction from Boise State University, where she taught creative writing and served as Associate Editor for The Idaho Review. Her fiction has appeared in Subtropics, the Indiana Review, and SELF. She is the recipient of an Alexa Rose Foundation Grant and the winner of the 2021 Glenn Balch Award for Fiction. Before turning to writing full-time, Natanya taught elementary school for more than ten years. She is currently working on a novel and perfecting her sheet-pan dinner recipes. You can find her on Twitter @natanya_molly or (occasionally) on Instagram @aglimpseonly
Ariel Delgado Dixon was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. Her first novel, Don't Say We Didn't Warn You, was released by Random House in February 2022. Her writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, LitHub, The Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Boise State University's MFA program and currently lives in Philadelphia, where she is at work on her second novel.
Twitter: @arieldeldixon
Instagram: @okayariel