PORT TOWNSEND — Two acclaimed authors, Pam Houston and Lidia Yuknavitch, will return to Port Townsend this Saturday to read from their work at Writers’ Workshoppe & Imprint Books, 820 Water St.
Admission is free and there are no reservations for the 7 p.m. event.
Houston’s most recent book is Contents May Have Shifted, a collection of travel stories published in 2012.
She is also the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, the novel, Sight Hound, and the essay collection A Little More About Me.
Her honors include the Western States Book Award, the Evil Companions Literary Award and multiple teaching awards.
Yuknavitch has two novels forthcoming from Harper Books: The Small Backs of Children (2015) and The Book of Joan (2016).
She is the author of the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water, the novel Dora: A Headcase, and three books of short fiction.
Her essays and stories have appeared most recently on TheRumpus.net and in The Sun magazine.
The recipient of an Oregon Book Award and a finalist for the Penn Center Prize in nonfiction, Yuknavitch lives in Portland, Ore.