Zachary Kellian ditched a career he loved, as he puts it, “to live out a dream.” Kellian left his job as a nonprofit executive five years ago to pursue a literary career. Today, he is one of 17 finalists in an inaugural, national short story contest based around lived experiences with money. The contest, called…

“I had cassette tapes and workbooks, but it was hard because I was living in Washington, and my tribal language has roots in Wisconsin,” Sky Hopinka says. Learning alone, he could listen to prerecorded Hocak phrases and practice writing letters and words, but an essential component was missing — another person to speak with. Photo

Seattle artist Tessa Hulls’ new graphic novel Feeding Ghosts is a deeply stirring narrative of loss, mental illness, and intergenerational trauma. She says that she wrote it to answer this question: What broke my family? Much of the book is about repetition, and how three generations of women in Hulls’ family were emotionally crippled by

Poetry installations will appear across Seattle starting April 1 as part of the city’s Public Poetry campaign...