Women authors and speakers take the stage to explore the people and places behind Pacific Northwest history, and the untold stories they have brought back to light.
Schedule
3:30-4:15 PM: Arrivals, meet the speakers 4:15-5:00 PM: Heather Pihl 5:00-5:45 PM: Rebekah Anderson 5:45-6:30 PM: Shirin Yim Leos 6:30-7:00 PM: Q&A and book sale
Heather Pihl shares the story of Princess Angeline (Kikisoblu), daughter of Chief Seattle, who stayed in the city that took her father's name. Heather is President of the Friends of Pike Place Market.
Rebekah Anderson is the author of The Grand Promise (Empty Bowl Press), a novel about the real communities upended by building the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in the 1930s. It was a finalist for the 2023 PNWA Nancy Pearl Book Award. Anderson holds an MFA in fiction from NYU, where E.L. Doctorow advised her thesis.
Shirin Yim Leos is the author of Of Wind and Dust (The Dial Press, February 2027). Her debut novel follows three women, a first wife, a ransomed slave and a young woman from the Puget Sound, who are all bound to one man. Their story stretches from rural China to mid-19th-century Seattle and is inspired by her own family history. Leos is also an Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning children's author.
Hear how each speaker found her story in the archives, in family history, and in the landscape. Stay after the talks for audience Q&A and a book sale.