Virtual It's About Time Writers' Reading Series, Meeting 378

The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library Events

This month’s online presentation welcomes Sylvia Byrne Pollack, Allison Green and E. Lily Yu.Sylvia Byrne Pollack was raised in a music-loving family in Batavia, NY. In the wake of Sputnik, she chose to study science. She earned a B.A. in Zoology from Syracuse University, a Ph.D in Developmental Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.A. in psychology from Antioch University-Seattle. She is Research Professor Emeritus after a long career in cancer research at the University of Washington. Following a trip to Antarctica in 2007, Sylvia began to focus on poetry. Her poems appear in Floating Bridge Review, Crab Creek Review, Clover, and Antiphon among other print and online journals. She is a two-time Pushcart nominee, won the 2013 Mason's Road Winter Literary Award, was a 2019 Jack Straw Writer and will be a 2021 Mineral School resident. Her first collection, Risking It, was just published by Red Mountain Press.Allison Green's first book, the novel Half-Moon Scar, was published by St. Martin's Press as part of its Stonewall Inn Editions imprint. Ooligan Press at Portland State University published her memoir, The Ghosts Who Travel with Me. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in publications such as The Gettysburg Review, ZYZZYVA, Calyx, Willow Springs, Raven Chronicles, and Yes! Magazine. She is working on a novel about the Mount St. Helens eruption.E. Lily Yu is the author of the novel On Fragile Waves, published in February 2021, which received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, LibraryJournal, and Foreword Reviews. She received the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017 and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2012 and has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. More than thirty short stories have appeared in venues from McSweeney's to Boston Review to Tor.com, as well as twelve best-of-the-year anthologies.