Virtual It's About Time Writers' Reading Series, Meeting 386

The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library Events

This month’s online presentation welcomes Carolyne Wright, Ruth Schemmel and Esther Helfott.Carolyne Wright’s new book is "Masquerade," a memoir in poetry (Lost Horse Press, 2021). Her previous book is "This Dream the World: New and Selected Poems," whose title poem won a Pushcart Prize and also appeared in "The Best American Poetry 2009." Her ground-breaking anthology, "Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace," received ten Pushcart Prize nominations. Wright has five earlier books of poetry, a volume of essays, and five award-winning volumes in translation from Spanish and Bengali. A contributing editor for the Pushcart Prizes, she teaches for Seattle’s Richard Hugo House and for literary conferences and festivals nationwide. Wright lived in Chile and traveled in Brazil on a Fulbright Grant; and she returned to Brazil in 2018 on an Instituto Sacatar artists residency in Bahia. She has also received NEA and 4Culture grants, and a Fulbright Scholar Award she received in early 2020 will take her back to Bahia after the CoVid-19 pandemic subsides in Brazil.Ruth Schemmel is a Seattle-area writer and teacher whose fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Fiction, and New Orleans Review, among other places. She has been a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open and a fifth-place overall winner in the NYC Midnight Short Fiction Challenge. She is at work on a novel.Esther Helfott, founder of the It's About Time Writers' Reading Series in January 1990 will read on "Becoming Eighty." Helfgott is a non-fiction writer and poet with a Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington. She is the author of "Listening to Mozart: Poems of Alzheimer's, Dear Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's Diary," and "The Homeless One: A Poem in Many Voices". She is a longtime teacher and 2010 Jack Straw Writer.