from The Convergence Zone is a series of author readings, and artist talks and performances, sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. It brings together sometimes peaceable, sometimes combustible, fronts of discovery and experiment. This series brings to the (virtual) Seattle metropolitan area exciting writers and artists who "cross" and "trans" genres and media. It discusses and performs written arts in an expanded field. 

Registering for this event will provide access to the Friday afternoon events in this series.

May 21, 2021: John Englehardt

John Englehardt is a writer and educator from the Pacific Northwest. His first novel, Bloomland, won the Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and was named a book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Electric Literature. He has taught writing classes at Seattle University, Hugo House, and University of Arkansas, where he received his MFA. Currently, he works as a writing mentor for Dzanc Books, and lives in the Central District with his wife and two dogs.