Michael N. McGregor usually hosts the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation series, but for the last event in the series’ inaugural year, the museum has asked him to be the featured author instead. This will be the first opportunity to learn about and purchase his new book, An Island to Myself: The Place…
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When E. Lily Yu’s first novel, On Fragile Waves, appeared in 2021, it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, and Foreword Reviews. In the New York Times Book Review, author Amal El-Mohtar called it “devastating and perfect.” With compassion and flashes of humor, it takes us deeply…
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Well-known in literary and exploration circles at the turn of the 20th century, Benno Alexander was a prolific writer of poetry and prose in both English and German. He was also a legendary guide to the far north. What remains of him in the historical record reveals an accomplished and…
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Although she didn’t grow up on a farm or in the Pacific Northwest, it seems Jessica Gigot was destined from an early age to own “a little bit of land” in Washington’s Skagit Valley and craft beautiful poems out of her deep and loving relationship with the natural world.
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Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum’s engrossing and beautifully written new novel, Elita, opens in 1951 with the discovery of a seemingly wild girl on the rugged outskirts of a prison island in Puget Sound.
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The next featured author in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation series will be Skagit Valley poet, farmer, and memoirist Jessica Gigot. Gigot will chat with host Michael N. McGregor about her writings and her life on January 9.
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