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Lindy West & Jane Wong in Conversation, Sponsored by Seattle Arts & Lectures

Ballrooms 2 & 3, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5
Friday, March 10, 2023
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

Join Seattle-based writers Lindy West (author of Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman and Shit, Actually: The Definitive Guide, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema) and Jane Wong (poet and author of the forthcoming memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City) for a conversation about writing true-ish things and moving between genres. May also feature laughter, vulnerability, as well as hot takes on TV, fashion, feminism, and ceramic dumplings. Moderated by Rebecca Hoogs, Executive Director of Seattle Arts & Lectures. This event will be livestreamed. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.



Participants

Moderator:

Rebecca Hoogs is the author of Self-Storage and a chapbook, Grenade. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, FIELD, and others. She is the Associate Director for Seattle Arts & Lectures, and a Co-Director of the Creative Writing in Rome program for the University of Washington.

Jane Wong is the author of two poetry collections: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). Her debut memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, is forthcoming from Tin House in May 2023. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room, the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, Loghaven, and others. She grew up in a Chinese American take-out restaurant and is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University.

Lindy West is a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and the author of Shit, Actually: The The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema, as well as the New York Times bestselling memoir Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman and the essay collection The Witches Are Coming. Her work has also appeared in This American Life, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, and others. She is the co-founder of the reproductive rights destigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. Lindy is a writer and executive producer on Shrill, the Hulu comedy adapted from her memoir. She co-wrote and produced the independent feature film Thin Skin. She lives in Seattle.

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