Horror Reading: Joe Milutis, Evan J Peterson, Erik Keevan, & Leanne Machado

Elliott Bay Book Co. and Gamut present OFFICE HOURS: A Reading Series

Joe Milutis, Evan J Peterson, Erik Keevan, and Leanne Machado read from select horror work. This is followed by a discussion and Q&A.

Joe Milutis is a media artist and writer whose interdisciplinary work includes experimental sound and radio; video works; new media; experimental narrative; theoretical writings; and various media and literature hybrids. Since the early 90s, after having produced a number of radio art broadcasts, my work has focused on new genres and media that have uncertain status and value. Most recently, I have been exploring experimental translation, and its possible cross-overs with remix aesthetics, conceptual writing, and transmission art practices. A number of chapbooks, videos and performances have emerged from this project, including Monkey pOm! (a translation of Hanuman Chalisa), Mao Vincit Omnia (a translation of Mao’s Little Red Book), The Numbers (a translation of a German translation of Robert Creeley’s number poems), and Twenty Beloved French Poems, Treated Poorly (a translation of 19th-century French poetry). I am currently working on a translation of Michael Maier’s 17th-century alchemical emblem book Atalanta Fugiens, and Bright Arrogance—a column for Jacket2 on experimental translation practices.

Evan J. Peterson is a game writer, novelist, monsterologist, and poet. His first novel, Better Living Through Alchemy, won the Small Spec Book Award for fantasy fiction, and other works include METAFLESH: Poems In the Voices of the Monster; Drag Star!, the world’s first drag performer RPG; and The Road to Innsmouth: Arkham Horror. His writing has appeared in Weird Tales, PseudoPod, Queers Destroy Horror, and Nightmare Magazine. POSTHUMAN, his next RPG, is coming in 2026 from Choice of Games. Evanjpeterson.com can tell you more.

Erik Keevan is a writer, playwright, and digital artist living in Seattle, WA. Erik serves as the chair for HWA Seattle, President of Gamut literary series, and writer for the Victorian horror troupe Phantasmagoria. His work has been featured in Horror Tree’s Trembling with Fear series, Clamor literary magazine, was a finalist in Quillkeeper Press' Chapbook contest, and won the 2025 Camp Crypticon writing contest for best horror story. His story "Histolysis" is out in May as part of the 2026 Crypticon anthology. He is currently in the second year of his MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at University of Washington to make sure he becomes sufficiently pretentious. Find his work and more about upcoming reading events at www.erikkeevan.me, or on Instagram at @ekeevan.

Leanne Machado is a cosmic and speculative horror fiction writer who loves creating horror out of the average world. She is constantly inspired by video games, horror novels, her dreams, nature, and mundane objects of her everyday life. She is published in University of Washington-Bothell’s 2025 Clamor Journal, as well as in Abundance Literary Magazine Vol. 2, and HNDL’s Hyperfocus Horror Issue 1.

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