Virtual It's About Time Writers' Reading Series, Meeting 391

The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library Events

Evolution of a Writing Group. After four years of deepening their support of one another, they present their work to the public as a group for the first time. With Kelly Martineau, Anne Liu Kellor, Mary Pan and Jenne Hsien Patrick.About the authors.Kelly Martineau is an essayist and poet in Seattle. Her work has appeared in Entropy, Little Patuxent Review, Sycamore Review, and The Florida Review, among other journals. Honors include a Pushcart Prize nomination and selection of her prose chapbook, Sirens|Silence, as a finalist for the May Day Mountain Series, Newfound Prose Prize, and Tiny Fork Chapbook Contest.Anne Liu Kellor is a mixed-race Chinese American writer, editor, and teacher based in Seattle. Her critically-acclaimed memoir, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging, was published in 2021 and praised by Cheryl Strayed as "insightful, riveting, and beautifully written." Anne's essays have appeared in publications such as YES! Magazine, Longreads, Fourth Genre, Witness, and New England Review. She is the recipient of fellowships from Hedgebrook, Seventh Wave, Jack Straw Writers Program, 4Culture, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods. Anne teaches writing workshops and facilitates a year-long creative nonfiction manuscript program for women and nonbinary writers seeking mentorship and community.Mary Pan is a writer and physician with a background in global health and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney’s, Intima, and elsewhere. She is a Tin House 2020 Nonfiction Winter Workshop alum and a 2020 Media and Medicine Harvard Medical School fellow. The recipient of a 2019 Artist Trust Grants for Artists’ Projects Literary Award, she was runner-up for AWP’s 2020 Kurt Brown Prize for Creative Nonfiction.Jenne Hsien Patrick is a writer and artist based in Seattle, WA. She writes poetry, makes comics and text/image works incorporating textiles and papercutting, and is currently writing about motherhood, family history, and self-preservation and survival as an inheritance from the matriarchal lines of her family. She was a scholarship recipient to the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference and is an alum of the Tin House Winter Workshop. Jenne's work has appeared in publications such as wildness/Platypus Press, and Honey Literary among others.