Local lit favorites Sarah Galvin and David Schmader join host and curator Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore for CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Queer Writers in Conversation, a reading series that takes place the first Wednesday of every month.

Galvin is the author of the collection The Three Einsteins (Poor Claudia) as well as a book of essays, The Best Party of Our Lives (Sasquatch Books), inspired by The Stranger‘s Wedding Crasher column. Schmader is a writer and performer known for his solo plays (Straight, Letter to Axl, and A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem) and his writing for The Stranger. He’s the author of Weed: A User’s Guide (Sasquatch Books).

Both writers will read from their work followed by an onstage conversation with Sycamore.

This event is free. Information on accessbility and getting to Hugo House can be found at hugohouse.org/about/faq

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Sarah Galvin is a Northwest poet and the author of the collection The Three Einsteins (Poor Claudia). She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is the winner of the 2015 Lottery Grant and a 2015 James W. Ray award nominee. Her poems and essays can be found in iO, Pleiades, New Ohio Review, Dark Sky, Pinwheel, Alive at the Center, and Vice Magazine.

David Schmader is a writer and performer whose solo plays, Straight, Letter to Axl, and A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem have been performed in Seattle and around the country. Since 2015, he’s been the creative director of the award-winning nonprofit writing center for kids The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas. His writing has appeared in OUT magazine and on Newsweek.com.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is most recently the author of a memoir, The End of San Francisco, which won a Lambda Literary Award, and the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book.