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Redmond Association of Spokenword features novelist Emily Dietrich on 9/26

RASP Reading Series & Open Mic is open to prose writers, poets, and spokenword performers of all ages.

We are a community of writers, readers, and lovers of the spokenword who meet once a month to share our work. On Friday, September 26, 7-9 pm, Redmond writer Emily Dietrich reads from her debut novel, Holding True. Please join us! Come early to sign up for open mic. This is a free event and all ages are welcome.

We meet in Room 206, Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80th Street, Redmond, WA 98052—Directions to ORSCC

About the featured reader

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Emily Dietrich was born in Detroit and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When she was six, she wrote her first poems, one about her brother and one about a fish. Her previous publications include The Case of the Missing Mask and Other Stories (A book of puzzle mystery stories), as well as essays, poems, and articles in Ms. Magazine, Seattle Woman, Seattle’s Child, Historic Women of Michigan, and elsewhere. Emily has a BA in English from Mount Holyoke College, an MA in English from the University of Michigan, and a teaching credential from San Jose State University. After teaching high school and college English in Michigan, California, and Washington state, she started working on Holding True, her first novel. Emily lives in Redmond, Washington with her husband, daughter, and son, and a bossy rabbit named Sherlock.

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