Schedule.
Working Stiffs LITCRAWL EDITION
Thursday, October 27, 7:00-7:45pm
Office Nomads, 1617 Boylston Ave., Seattle, WA
Thursday, October 27, 7:00-7:45pm
Office Nomads, 1617 Boylston Ave., Seattle, WA
Agenda.
Nikkita Oliver is a Seattle-based creative, teaching artist, and anti-racist organizer. She is an attorney and holds a Masters of Education from the University of Washington where she studied racial disproportionality and disparate impact in school exclusion. Nikkita is a writer-in-residence with Writers in the Schools at Washington Middle School and Franklin High School. Additionally, she leads writing workshops with Arts Corp at Garfield High School and is a teaching artist and case manager with Creative Justice—an arts-based alternative to incarceration. Nikkita is the 2015 recipient of the Seattle Office of Civil Rights Artist Human Rights Leader Award, the 2014 Seattle Poetry Slam (SPS) Grand Slam Champion, the 2013, 2014 and 2016 Seattle Poetry Slam Women of the World Poetry Slam representative, a three time Seattle Poetry Slam national team member and coached the Seattle Poetry Slam national slam team twice. She has opened for Cornel West and Chuck D of Public Enemy and performed on The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert.
John Englehardt is a Seattle-based fiction writer and editor at Pacifica Literary Review. He received a 2015-16 Made at Hugo House fellowship, the 2014 Wabash prize in fiction, and won The Stranger's 2012 A&P story contest, judged by Sherman Alexie and Rebecca Brown. He holds an MFA from University of Arkansas, and his writing has been published in Sycamore Review, The Stranger, Seattle Review of Books, and The James Franco Review.
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Nassim Assefi is a doctor, novelist, creative content curator, and activist who’s crafted a rich and unconventional “portfolio life.” Most recently, as an outgrowth of a 2009 TEDGlobal Fellowship, she was director of stage content for TEDMED, which included leading speaker selection and coaching and stage hosting. An internist specializing in women’s health, she cares for vulnerable urban patients in a community health clinic in Seattle (including doing torture evaluations of refugees seeking political asylum) and helps strengthen health systems when working in global contexts (lately in Cuba and Afghanistan). She is the author of Aria (Harcourt 2007 & 5 foreign translations) and Say I Am You (forthcoming, fall 2017). She serves as an advisor to non-profit organizations and companies—from Hedgebrook to Fine Acts, Maven to ZocDoc—and has curated many cultural events outside of the TED world. A second generation Iranian-American, she has traveled to more than 50 countries and speaks and sings in five languages. She’s a graduate of Wellesley College, University of Washington (medical school), and Harvard (residency). Her favorite self-description is thrillionaire.
Librarian by day, writer by night, native Alabamian Kristine Lloyd loves to tell stories about her family. She earned her MFA at the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University in 2000. She has written for Washington Post, Salon, Scary Mommy, Seattle Bride, and a variety of local blogs. She is currently working on a memoir about the fact that her parents get laid more than she does.
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