previous WRiTERS of the MONTH
Jen McConnell is a fiction writer and poet with recent work in Does It Have Pockets?, Bridge Eight, the tiny journal, and Red Rock Review. Her first short story collection, “Welcome, Anybody,” was published by Press 53, and she’s finishing her second. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She received her MFA from Goddard College.
jenmcconnell.com, Instagram @jentheauthor
BARBARA HUME is a Seattle-based freelance playwright, singer, and actor/director whose two full-length plays explore social issues set within a drama of disparate or strained relationships. Light through the Cellar Door focuses on three generations of one family’s reproductive history; Redline depicts the friendship of two young men, one white and one Black, challenged by the status quo of racism.
LiSA EVERY is a Seattle-based freelance actor and playwright and an artistic associate at Seattle Public Theater. As a playwright, she works as part of a team with Jenn Ruzumna. Their plays Happy, Happy, Happy… and The Fifth Wave premiered at Macha Theatre Works. Their newest play The Park will have a public reading this June at Seattle Public Theater.