Tuesday, August 10 8:00pm - 9:15pm MT
Katherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington will discuss their new books on healthcare with Naomi Williams during this virtual conversation hosted by Point Reyes Books. This event will be hosted on Point Reyes Books’ Crowdcast channel.
You can purchase a copy of Lightning Flowers from Point Reyes Books here.
Kate Washington is an essayist and writer in Northern California and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. Washington’s work includes creative nonfiction, essays, memoir, deeply researched longform pieces, and food writing and restaurant reviews including both pans and raves. In recent years, her work has appeared in The New York Times; Avidly; TIME; Literary Hub; Bitch Magazine; Bellingham Review; Brain, Child; Catapult; Dame; Eater; Hippocampus; McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; Ravishly; The Toast; Southwest: The Magazine; Sunset Magazine; Yoga Journal; The Washington Post; and more. (For a more complete portfolio, please visit the Writing page.) She was local editor for the Zagat Survey's guide to Sacramento restaurants. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Stanford University and is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier.
Kate’s book Already Toast is the story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles.
Moderator Naomi Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015), long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space, One Story, The Southern Review, and The Gettysburg Review. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, and residencies at Hedgebrook, Djerassi, and Willapa Bay AiR.
Naomi was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was six years old. Educated at Princeton, Stanford, and UC Davis, today she makes her home in Sacramento, California. She has taught creative writing at UC Davis, Sacramento City College, and the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. She’s hard at work on new writing projects, including a novel about the early 20th-century Japanese poet Yosano Akiko
