Anne Liu Kellor

We’re delighted to announce Anne Liu Kellor will be a featured author at our August 12th literary salon.

Anne Liu Kellor is a mixed-race Chinese American writer, editor, and teacher born and raised in Seattle. Her memoir, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging, was a 2021 IPPY Winner, as well as a Foreword Indie and Washington State Book Award finalist. Her work has also appeared in publications such as Longreads, New England Review, Fourth Genre, Memoir Land, and YES! Magazine, and has been supported by organizations such as Hedgebrook, The Whiteley Center, The Seventh Wave, Jack Straw Writers Program, 4Culture, and more. Anne facilitates creative nonfiction workshops and a yearlong manuscript program, centering the voices of womxn of color and nonbinary ways of being. She is also the editor of the anthology Both/And: A Mixed-Race Manifesto, forthcoming in 2025.

https://www.anneliukellor.com/

David Shields

David Shields will be reading from his new book at our October 7th salon. He is the internationally bestselling author of twenty-five books, including Reality Hunger (which, in 2020, Lit Hub named one of the most important books of the past decade), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award), Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity (PEN/Revson Award), and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (NYTBR Editors’ Choice). The Very Last Interview was published by New York Review Books in 2022.

The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, Shields—a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions—has published essays and stories in New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Believer, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best American Essays. His work has been translated into two dozen languages.

The film adaptation of I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, which Shields co-wrote and co-stars in, was released in 2017 and is now available as a DVD on Prime Video.

Shields wrote, produced, and directed Lynch: A History, a 2019 documentary about Marshawn Lynch’s use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of resistance (streaming on Prime, Peacock, AMC, Sundance, Apple, and many other platforms).

I’ll Show You Mine, a feature film that Shields co-wrote and was produced by Mark and Jay Duplass, was released  in 2023 and is now available on Prime and several other platforms.

A new film, How We Got Here, which Shields wrote and directed and which argues that Melville plus Nietzsche divided by the square root of (Allan) Bloom times Žižek (squared) equals Bannon, is streaming now on Prime and several other platforms; the companion volume is forthcoming in September 2024.

Kalehua Kim

Kalehua Kim is a poet living in the Pacific Northwest. Born of Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino and Portuguese descent, her multicultural background informs much of her work. A 2023 winner of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, she is currently pursuing an MFA through the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She is a Fellow with the Indigenous Nations Poets and her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Calyx, and ‘Ōiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal. As a recipient of the 2024 Trio House Press Editors Choice Prize, her first collection of poems, Mele, is forthcoming from Trio House in 2025.  

https://kalehuakim.com/

Peter Mountford

Peter Mountford will be reading from new work at our October 7th salon.

Peter Mountford is the author of the novels A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism (Washington State Book Award), and The Dismal Science (NYT editor's choice). His work has appeared in the New York Times (Modern Love), Paris Review, Southern Review, The Atlantic, The Sun, Granta, and The Missouri Review. He teaches at University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe's MFA.  His next book, a collection of stories called Detonator, will be out in late 2025.

https://www.mountfordwriting.com/

Hadley Leggett

Hadley Leggett writes layered book club fiction exploring truth in shades of gray. Before becoming a novelist, her winding career path included degrees in medicine, biochemistry, Spanish, and science journalism, as well as a ten-year stint as a stay-at-home mom. She began writing fiction — her secret lifelong dream — when her youngest child started preschool and she finally got a moment to herself.

Hadley's short stories and essays have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Literary Mama, and Halfway Down the Stairs, and her science writing can be found at Wired.com and Stanford News. After moving all over the United States during her childhood, she has made her permanent home in Seattle, where she lives with her husband and three children, as well as her parents, three cats, and an ever-rotating troop of foster kittens. All They Ask Is Everything is her first novel. Visit Hadley online at https://hadley.ink.

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