Lisa Michaels is the author of Split: A Counterculture Childhood, selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in Glamour, Salon, and the New York Times Magazine. She has been a contributing editor at The Threepenny Review and an associate faculty member at the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles.
2024 May Reading Series: Night 2
with E.J. Batiste, Mary Pan, Becca Rose Hall, and Amontaine Aurore
Friday, May 10, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. $10 suggested donation.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
2024 May Reading Series: Night 3
with Jarrett Ziemer, Catherine DeNardo, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, and Gabriel Moseley
Friday, May 17, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. $10 suggested donation.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
Jack Straw Writers at Folklife 2024
Catherine DeNardo, Josh Griffin, Mary Pan, Amontaine Aurore, McKenna Princing, and Elyse Hauser read their work
Saturday, May 25, 5:30pm
5:30pm start. Donations requested for the festival.
NW Folklife, Center Theater
Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series
Jack Straw Writers Program alumni read new poetry. Hosted by Kathleen Flenniken.
Monday, June 3, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series
Jack Straw Writers Program alumni read new poetry. Hosted by Kathleen Flenniken.
Wednesday, June 12, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
An anthology and reading from Jack Straw Cultural Center and Raven Chronicles celebrating the first twenty years of the Jack Straw Writers Program, 1997-2016
