Literary Mystery Writer

Matthew Sullivan

author of

Midnight in Soap Lake

& Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

in conversation with series host

Michael N. McGregor

author of The Last Grand Tour

& An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life

6:00 p.m., Thursday, November 13

Cascadia Art Museum, 190 Sunset Ave, Edmonds, WA 98020

(To order tickets through the Cascadia website, click here)

Matthew Sullivan‘s first novel, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, was an IndieNext pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, a GoodReads Choice Award finalist, and winner of the Colorado Book Award. His second novel, Midnight in Soap Lake, which came out earlier this year, was featured in the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times and Crime Reads. Book Three of The Midnight Cycle is in the works.

Sullivan’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Daily Beast, The Spokesman-Review, and Sou’wester, and his stories have been awarded the Florida Review Editor’s Prize and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize.

He grew up in a family of eight kids in Aurora, Colorado, and received his B.A. from the University of San Francisco and his M.F.A. from the University of Idaho. After working as a bookseller at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he spent 20 years as a tenured instructor teaching writing, literature and film at a rural community college in the high desert of Washington State. He is married to Libby Eastman Sullivan, a librarian and artist, and lives in Anacortes, WA, along the Salish Sea.

You can read more about Sullivan and his work at matthewjsullivan.com.

You can purchase Matthew Sullivan’s books online at the Edmonds Bookshop.

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About the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series

On the second Thursday of each month, host Michael N. McGregor brings one Northwest writer in front of an enthusiastic audience for a brief reading, a discussion of the author’s work, and a question-and-answer session with engaged literature lovers.

The series showcases the wealth of writing talent in the Pacific Northwest by featuring writers from different genres at different stages of their careers who may have been overlooked rather than those readers already know.

Writers who appear in the series are also featured on WritingtheNorthwest.com.

The series offers a unique chance to hear talented writers speak in-depth about what it means to be an author in the Northwest and why and how they create their works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The conversations take place in one of Cascadia’s beautiful galleries, with Northwest art lining the walls.

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 Northwest artists in literature as well. The series is sponsored by the Edmonds Bookshop and Holman.

Michael N. McGregor is Seattle-based author whose book Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award. After living his early life in Seattle, he spent 17 years as an award-winning professor of creative writing at Portland State University, where he helped found the MFA in Creative Writing program. A former member of the Advisory Committee for the Oregon Book Awards and Fellowships, he holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in New York. His first novel, The Last Grand Tour, and his first memoir, An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life, were published earlier this year.

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