Rebecca Brown w/ Christopher Frizzelle, MY ANIMAL KINGDOM

Seattle writer Rebecca Brown reads from her new book My Animal Kingdom, from local press FrizzLit. This warm, funny, poignant memoir explores the mystery of aliveness, the nature of time, and human relationships with the creatures who share our world. She is joined by Christopher Frizzelle.

Rebecca Brown adopted a baby squirrel, and it changed her life. This warm, funny, poignant memoir explores the mystery of aliveness, the nature of time, and human relationships with the creatures who share our world. Organized by animals the author has encountered, from a bear in the Cascade Mountains to monkeys in Japan, My Animal Kingdom draws a vivid portrait of life in a changing world, teeming with cats, dogs, otters, monsters, a goose, a turtle, and some chickens with a secret.

Rebecca Brown is the author of 16 books published in the US and abroad, most recently My Animal Kingdom (Frizzlit Editions) and Obscure Destinies (Publication Studio/Fellow Travelers Series). Her other titles (novels, short stories, essays, prose poems) include American Romances, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, The Terrible Girls, The Gifts of the Body, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else, and You Tell The Stories You Need to Believe. She has also written a play, the libretto for a dance opera, a one-woman show, “Monstrous”, commissioned by Northwest Film Forum, and popular arts and book criticism for the Stranger and elsewhere. Her visual work has been displayed at the Frye Art Museum, Hedreen Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, Simon Fraser Gallery (Vancouver, BC) and the University of Arizona Poetry Center Gallery. She has also read and lectured in the US, UK, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Germany, and Uganda. She was the designer, co-founder and first curator of the Jack Straw Writers program, and is a former Artistic Director of the Port Townsend Writers conference. She recently retired from teaching.

Christopher Frizzelle is the editor and publisher of FrizzLit Editions. He began his career as a book critic at Seattle Weekly in 2001, then worked at The Stranger from 2003 to 2020, with 9 years as editor-in-chief. Under his leadership, The Stranger won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. In 2009, he invented the Silent Reading Party in the hundred-year-old Hotel Sorrento, launching a worldwide trend. His work has been featured in the New York Times and on Good Morning America, and his writing has appeared in the Washington Post. He lives in Seattle.

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