Poet Katy E. Ellis and Student Poetry Reading at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor) on Wednesday July 20th, 7 pm–9 pm. More from C & P:

A reading for the wild [animal] at heart! Please join City Artist grant recipient Katy Ellis and four talented young writing students from the public and home school community for an evening of poetry that explores familial relationships as they relate to animal instinct, animal affection and a sense of where and how we belong to one another. Katy Ellis, a local West Seattle writer and co-curator of the WordsWest Literary Series, will read from Anybody’s Animal, her poetry manuscript-in-progress, which gives Seattle readers a way to consider how our connection with nature and the animals is constantly tested. Four school-age students who attended Katy’s “Writing the Animals” classes will also share their work on the theme of animals and human nature. This event is supported by Seattle’s Office of Art
and Culture.

Katy E. Ellis grew up under fir trees and high-voltage power lines in Renton, Washington. She teaches creative writing through Seattle Arts & Lecture’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) program and at The Family
Learning Program, a home school education organization. She studied writing at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and at Western Washington University. Aside from her chapbooks Urban Animal Expeditions (Dancing Girl Press) and Gravity (Yellow Flag Press)-which garnered a Pushcart nomination-her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals including PRISM International, Literary Mama, MAYDAY Magazine, Redheaded Stepchild, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and the Canadian journals Grain and Fiddlehead. Her fiction has appeared in Burnside Review and won Third Place in the Glimmer Train super-short fiction contest and she has been awarded grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture and Artist Trust/Centrum. Katy co-curates WordsWest Literary series, a monthly literary event in West Seattle.