Morissa Young is an editor at Milkweed Editions. Before joining the team, she worked as a graduate teaching assistant at the UNCW Publishing Laboratory, editorial and acquisitions lead at Lookout Books, and spread designer for Ecotone. She earned her MFA in poetry and certificate in publishing from the University of North Carolina–Wilmington, and her BA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
This event has been canceled. We apologize, and hope you can join us on December 11 with Rick Barot and Danez Smith.
Milkweed Books presents National Book Award finalist BONNIE JO CAMPBELL. Bonnie will be reading from her latest novel, The Waters, out now in paperback. Program will include an interview with long-time fan Lisa Durose and a book signing.
Nicholas Triolo is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, activist, and long-distance trail runner. His writing and images have been featured in Orion, Outside, the Dark Mountain Project, Trail Runner, and Terrain.org.
“I want to believe!”—but should you? In this perilous time of deception, demagoguery, and suckers born every minute, The Fabulist has assembled a knockout lineup of Bay Area writers, poets, and activists who wield fantastical fictions to say true things about our beating human hearts—and who tell true tales to confront exploitative popular narratives.
Hosted by Bent Paddle, Zenith Bookstore, and the Boundary Waters Action Fund
Amy & Dave Freeman will share some tales of adventure from their new book, NORTH AMERICAN ODYSSEY. Books will be available to purchase. Discussion will focus on how environmental issues witnessed during the writing of the Freeman’s newest book have grown more urgent, and possible ways environmental decline can either be curtailed or perpetuated by elected officials at all levels. The importance of electing individuals who champion a sustainable future will be touched on by the writers.
Join us for a Left Margin Lit Poetry Reading featuring Rick Barot and Christian Gullette!
The Hive Live! presents an evening of poetry with Rick Barot and Cintia Santana.
Rick Barot appearing on Verse-Virtual, with Margo Bershevsky. Verse-Virtual is an online community and journal of poetry.
A free literary arts reading, this year’s annual Shadow Work Writers will feature an all star lineup of Seattle-region greats including: Rick Barot, Raúl Sánchez, Roberto Ascalon, Kiana Davis, Eli Hastings (co-host), Shaun Anthony McMichael (co-host).
21+, Drinks and Food available for purchase. After the reading, we will host an author meet & greet, book signing, etc.
