Kristine Carlson and Morrie Wee have been coming to Holden regularly since 1977. While here they love to knit, hike, teach, and visit with people. Back in Minneapolis, they are co-pastors of Christ the King Lutheran Church. Before becoming a pastor, Morrie taught college English for eight years. Kristine has taught at colleges and at Luther Seminary; she wrote Arise to Life, a Bible study on the gospel of Mark used by the Women of the ELCA for the year 1988.

Kai is a poet, filmmaker and author of RAIL (BOA Editions, 2018). He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and his work has appeared in Ploughshares, Best New Poets, AGNI, New England Review, The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, and The Missouri Review, which awarded him the 2013 Editor’s Prize. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his award-winning poetry film, Riding the Highline, has screened at film festivals across the country. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University.