Literary Salon in Seattle! Celebrating Pacific Northwest Writers

We are pleased to invite you to a literary salon in Seattle featuring an incredible slate of the Pacific Northwest’s finest writers: Gary Lemons (The Book of Spells), Molly Olguín (The Sea Gives Up the Dead), Kristen Millares Young (Subduction), and Amber Flame (apocrifa). Join us for a celebration of literature and small press publishing!

Tuesday, May 6
6:30 p.m. Reception with refreshments & light hors d’oeuvres
7:15 p.m. Program
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum: 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101

Parking: We recommend parking at The Pike Place Market Garage.

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Amber Flame is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, activist and educator. In addition to creating change as Program Director of Hedgebrook, Flame continues to work as a writing instructor in her community and for current and formerly incarcerated women and youth while working on a third poetry collection and making music with her band, Last of the RedHot Mamas. Her second collection of poetry, apocrifa (Red Hen Press), was described as “an elegant, loving, and lovely journey [that] lifts us up, drops us, then lifts us again.”

Gary Lemons has written poetry since 1965 and has published eight books of poetry, including his forthcoming collection, Book of Spells (Red Hen Press). Of the many things Gary has done to support his writing, he’s most grateful for the time spent reforesting clear-cuts in the Pacific Northwest where he has planted over 500,000 trees.

Molly Olguín is a queer writer, educator, and monster aficionado. She was the winner of the 2023 Grace Paley Prize and writes literary fantasy and horror. Molly teaches English and creative writing to high school students in Seattle. She will be reading from her forthcoming, “darkly brilliant” fantastical collection of short stories, The Sea Gives up the Dead (Red Hen Press).

Kristen Millares Young is a journalist, essayist, and author of the novel Subduction (Red Hen Press), named a staff pick by the Paris Review and called “whip-smart” by The Washington Post, “a brilliant debut” by The Seattle Times, and “utterly unique and important” by Ms. Magazine. A former Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House, she is the editor of Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature, a finalist for a 2021 Washington State Book Award. Kristen was the researcher for The New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize.