PORT ANGELES — Tess Gallagher will read from “Surrounded by Weasels” during a book launch party at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The event will be for Gallagher’s new collection of short stories.
The collection is the result of a decades-long collaboration between Gallagher and her late partner, Josie Gray, an Irish painter and storyteller.
“Josie often told stories while in motion, walking with me by the Morse Creek near my home in Port Angeles, riding ferryboats or trekking to the Pacific Ocean,” Gallagher said.
“Surrounded by Weasels” follows the couple’s 2007 book, “Barnacle Soup.”
These stories, gathered between 1994 and 2006, were spoken before the hearth at Abbey Cottage in Ballindoon, Ireland, and at Sky and Ridge Houses in Washington.
Interspersed throughout the collection are original Josie Gray paintings, created in both Ireland and America.
Gallagher serves on the board for the Theodore Roethke Foundation and is the inaugural Writer in Residence at Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles.
