author interview

  • Seattle Reads: An interview with author Karen Joy Fowler

    This interview originally appeared in The American Reader. Reprinted with permission of Carmen Maria Machado for our 2016 Seattle Reads celebration featuring Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Events with Ms. Fowler run Friday through Sunday, May 20-22, at six Seattle library locations.  Last summer, Karen Joy Fowler made me cry. On… Continue reading

  • Shelf Talks with local poet Megan Snyder-Camp

    We recently interviewed Megan Snyder-Camp, local Seattle poet and author of The Forest of Sure Things (Tupelo Press, 2010), about her craft and literary inspiration. One piece of advice many writers hear is “write what you know.” Do you take that advice? What advice have you found useful? I think we need invention to approach… Continue reading