My new book, An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life, won’t officially be released until next Tuesday, May 13, but the first event focused on it will take place tonight. I’ll be the featured author in the Writers-in-Conversation series at the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, WA.
I established the Writers-in-Conversation series last year to focus on Northwest authors, many of whom haven’t received the attention they deserve. Normally, I choose them and interview them. For the last event in our first season, however, the museum has asked me to be interviewed. And the museum’s executive director, Sally Ralston, will do the interviewing.
You’ll find a write-up about the evening and my writing career on WritingtheNorthwest.com. To read more about the Writers-in-Conversation series and/or purchase tickets, click here.
In the first year of the series (August 2024-present), I’ve interviewed novelists Sharma Shields and Debra Magpie Earling, science writer Clayton Page Aldern, memoirist and journalist Putsata Reang, poet and memoirist Jessica Gigot, illustrator and children’s author Julie Kim, conversation advocate and nonfiction writer Mónica Guzmán, and fiction writer E. Lily Yu.
We’ll be taking a summer break, but the series will return on September 11, featuring an exciting author from Oregon whose name will be revealed soon.
If you live in the Seattle area, I hope to see you at the museum tonight!
The Cascadia Art Museum is the only museum dedicated to artists and their works from the Pacific Northwest. Focused on visual art and design from 1860 to 1970, it is committed to the belief that recognizing previously neglected artists who made significant contributions to the region’s cultural identity gives us a fuller and more comprehensive understanding of Northwest art history. The Writers-in-Conversation series signals the museum’s desire to highlight underappreciated NW artists in literature as well.
