K Van Petten
K VAN PETTEN (they/them) is a musician & poet in the PNW.
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K Van Petten (they/them) is a musician, poet, and community-builder with a passion for supporting Seattle’s music, writing, coffee, and greater creative community.
Born and raised in Illinois, K composed multiple full length musicals before graduating high school that raised thousands of dollars for a local cancer resource center. K then honed in their songwriting craft as the musician in residence at a harbor bar in Chicago performing daily while living on a sailboat. They moved to Seattle in 2016 with their band after receiving their BA in Playwriting and Marketing from Illinois Wesleyan University while leading marketing for their local radio station WESN 88.1FM. In Seattle, they served as the first marketing employee for world-famous viral video company Cut.com, Director of Marketing for Caffe Vita Coffee Roasters helping to open the cafe at the KEXP Gathering Space, and they now support marketing for Sonic Guild Seattle, as well as Freakout Records and Poetry Northwest, all while writing for the world’s largest coffee publication, Barista Magazine.
K’s most recent creative work 'For Someone’ is a cassette tape of music and poetry aiming to bridge the worlds between spoken word poetry and music. The tape was made of sampled sounds and feelings in residence at Centrum at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, released by Hello America Stereo Cassette, and then adapted into a film showcased at Northwest Film Forum and selected for SIFF's NW Folklife Forum in 2023.
When K isn’t supporting Seattle’s creative community, they enjoy crabbing, clamming, oyster harvesting, mushroom foraging, and cooking through the bounty with their partner Gray. Learn more or connect with K on instagram.com/kvanpetten
K Van Petten (they/them) is a musician, poet, and community-builder with a passion for supporting Seattle’s music, writing, coffee, and greater creative community.
Born and raised in Illinois, K composed multiple full length musicals before graduating high school that raised thousands of dollars for a local cancer resource center. K then honed in their songwriting craft as the musician in residence at a harbor bar in Chicago performing daily while living on a sailboat. They moved to Seattle in 2016 with their band after receiving their BA in Playwriting and Marketing from Illinois Wesleyan University while leading marketing for their local radio station WESN 88.1FM. In Seattle, they served as the first marketing employee for world-famous viral video company Cut.com, Director of Marketing for Caffe Vita Coffee Roasters helping to open the cafe at the KEXP Gathering Space, and they now support marketing for Sonic Guild Seattle, as well as Freakout Records and Poetry Northwest, all while writing for the world’s largest coffee publication, Barista Magazine.
K’s most recent creative work 'For Someone’ is a cassette tape of music and poetry aiming to bridge the worlds between spoken word poetry and music. The tape was made of sampled sounds and feelings in residence at Centrum at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, released by Hello America Stereo Cassette, and then adapted into a film showcased at Northwest Film Forum and selected for SIFF's NW Folklife Forum in 2023.
When K isn’t supporting Seattle’s creative community, they enjoy crabbing, clamming, oyster harvesting, mushroom foraging, and cooking through the bounty with their partner Gray. Learn more or connect with K on instagram.com/kvanpetten
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K Van Petten is a poet and musician floating between mediums—poetry, music, and more. Their work blends words and sounds, most recently in For Someone, a cassette tape of audio poetry and ambient music transmitted from Centrum in Port Townsend and released by Hello America Stereo Cassette. Currently, they’re seeding a new project, False Hemlock. Find them at kvanpetten.com or @kvanpetten.
K Van Petten is a poet and musician floating between mediums—poetry, music, and more. Their work blends words and sounds, most recently in For Someone, a cassette tape of audio poetry and ambient music transmitted from Centrum in Port Townsend and released by Hello America Stereo Cassette. Currently, they’re seeding a new project, False Hemlock. Find them at kvanpetten.com or @kvanpetten.