Writers-in-Conversation Series

Cascadia is thrilled to host Writers-in-Conversation, a monthly series featuring award-winning author Michael N. McGregor interviewing important but often-overlooked Northwest writers. In partnership with the Edmonds Book Shop, the program highlights the thoughts, creativity, and work of authors who are shaping and bringing diversity to the Northwest literary scene today.

 

On February 13, McGregor will be talking with Julie Kim, an author and illustrator who lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two children. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design, she returned to her beloved Pacific Northwest to work mainly as freelance illustrator for various children’s magazines, trade and educational books. She has also done projects for the Wing Luke Museum and other non-profit organizations. Her authorial debut, Where’s Halmoni?, has received several starred reviews and its sequel Where’s Joon? was published in October 2023. Currently, she is working on an anthology of Korean folktales.

 

McGregor is a Seattle-based author whose book Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award. After growing up in Seattle, he earned a BA in journalism at the University of Oregon and an MFA in creative writing at Columbia University. A former journalist and professor of creative writing, he curates the website writingthenorthwest.com. You can learn more about him and his work, including his new novel, The Last Grand Tour, at michaelnmcgregor.com.