On Thursday, April 9th, we are excited to welcome Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum to our Writers-in-Conversation series.

 

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of the novel Elita and the forthcoming story collection Outer Stars, winner of the 2025 Katherine Anne Porter Prize. She has published three previous collections, including What We Do With the Wreckage, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, The Sun, and One Story, among many others. A PEN/O Henry Prize recipient, Lunstrum teaches creative writing and lives near Seattle with her family.

Our interviewer Michael N. McGregor is a Seattle-based author whose book Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award. After growing up in Seattle, he earned a BA in journalism at the University of Oregon and an MFA in creative writing at Columbia University. A former journalist and professor of creative writing, he curates the website writingthenorthwest.com. You can learn more about him and his work, including his latest book, An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life, and his new novel, The Last Grand Tour, at michaelnmcgregor.com.