KUOW Book Talks with Author Molly Olguin

Join KUOW’s Katie Campbell in conversation with Seattle-based writer Molly Olguín, author of The Sea Gives Up the Dead — winner of the 2023 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. In this imaginative and haunting debut collection, Olguín reimagines myths and fairy tales through a queer lens, exploring the borders between fantasy and reality, love and loss, and the monstrous and the human. Olguín’s fiction has appeared in Redivider, The Normal School, River Styx, Quarterly West, and more. She is the co-creator of the queer sci-fi audio drama The Pasithea Powder, a 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow, and a passionate educator who teaches English and creative writing in Seattle.

Together, she and Katie Campbell will discuss what it means to queer the classic fairytale, what fantasy can offer adult readers, and how the fantastical helps us better understand the human experience.

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for author Molly Olguín and host Katie Campbell. Questions will be reviewed and considered for the conversation.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required to attend.

Books will be available from our partner at Third Place Books.

Thursday, April 23 at The Seattle Public Library's Central Library. Doors open at 6 p.m. and program begins at 6:30 p.m.

Address: The Seattle Public Library Central Library: 1000 Fourth Ave. Seattle, WA 98104

Microsoft Auditorium. Auditorium Location: Level 1

This event is in partnership between The Seattle Public Library and KUOW.

Photography of the stage and recording of the audio will be taken at this event.

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