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Instructor and Guest Speakers

Instructor

Theo Pauline Nestor

Nestor's memoir, How To Sleep Alone in a King Size Bed (Crown, 2008), was a Kirkus Reviews Top Picks for Reading Groups and is being translated into German and Portuguese. Ladies' Home Journal calls the book, “heartbreakingly honest, wryly funny and revelatory.” Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in a number of places including the New York Times, Under The Sun, Alligator Juniper, Phoebe, AustinMama, and Brain, Child, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. She has taught writing at a number of colleges and universities including Cornish College of the Arts and the University of Washington. To learn more about Theo, you can visit her website: www.theopaulinenestor.com.

Guest Speakers

Carlene Cross

Cross has authored two nonfiction books, including The Undying West, a narrative history of Montana, and Fleeing Fundamentalism, a memoir examining fundamentalist religion in America. Fleeing Fundamentalism was selected as a Top Book for Fall 2006 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, an Arts and Media Award Book by the Dallas Morning News, and a Top Book for 2007 by Kirkus Reviews. The Undying West was chosen as a runner-up for the Washington State Governor’s Award. Cross has written television scripts for PBS and taught nonfiction writing classes throughout the Northwest. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in communications from the University of Washington.

Eve M. Tai

Eve began her writing life at age eight in the pages of a Cinderella diary. Three dozen journals later, Eve continues to write creative nonfiction. She writes often about her Chinese-American heritage, 40+ singlehood, eating and travels to places near and far. Her work has appeared in Yoga Journal, Seattle Times, Gastronomica, Under the Sun, Open Spaces and the anthology, In My Neighborhood: Celebrating Wisconsin Cities. Eve has studied creative writing at the University of Washington Extension and was a participant in the 2008 Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

Instructors and guest speakers are subject to change.