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 April 16, McGregor will be talking with E. Lily Yu, the author of On Fragile Waves, which won the Washington State Book Award for Fiction; Jewel Box, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the World Fantasy Award, and the Washington State Book Award; and Break, Blow, Burn, & Make. She also received the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. Individual stories have appeared in venues from McSweeney’s to Tor.com, as well as fourteen best-of-the-year anthologies, and have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards.

 

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.