Author Event with Kristen Millares Young

Join us for an evening with Kristen Millares Young, author of Desire Lines and Subduction, in conversation with Elissa Washuta! 6:30pm Tuesday, December 3 at Prologue Bookshop Desire Lines is a fearless, lyric memoir-in-essays in which Kristen Millares Young excavates her matrilineage and the submerged histories of the divine feminine, blending personal narrative, mythology, and cultural critique to reclaim women's voices, maternal power, and selfhood across generations. Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction, named a staff pick by The Paris Review. Winner of Nautilus and IPPY awards, Subduction was a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards and Foreword Indies Book of the Year. Her essays and reviews appear in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Literary Hub, and the anthologies Advanced Creative Nonfiction, Alone Together, and Broken Free. A former Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence, she is the editor of Seismic, a Washington State Book Award finalist. Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Seattle. Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the author of White Magic, Starvation Mode, and My Body Is a Book of Rules. With Theresa Warburton, she co-edited the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. Elissa is an associate professor at the Ohio State University, where she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Her next book, The Big Score, is an experimental business memoir about money, videogames, and sickness, forthcoming from Washington Square Press.