This evening we celebrate two newly published works of fiction, one by Seattle writer and University of Washington professor Maya Sonenberg, and the other by recent Seattle resident Anca L. Szilágyi, who returns from her present Chicago home. Maya Sonenberg will read from the excellent Richard Sullivan Prize-winning book of stories, BAD MOTHERS, BAD DAUGHTERS (University of Notre Dame Press). Anca L. Szilágyi will read from her second novel, DREAMS UNDER GLASS (Lanternfish).

"Maya Sonenberg's BAD MOTHERS, BAD DAUGHTERS is a revelation of fairy tale and form. In gorgeous, clear prose, evoking a playful range of settings—seascape to castle to hospital room to Seattle landmark—Sonenberg irreverently questions the loaded roles of child and parent, of princess and witch, of caretaker and abandoner, all the while piercing the wonders of both our natural world and our labyrinthe hearts."
—Sharma Shields

“Szilagyi’s story turns to the twentysomethings on the margins, whose friendships, heartaches, and love are threatened most by the self-indulgence of the times. Szilagyi’s sharp, wry prose captures millennial ennui and ambition alike in this sometimes-dark, sometimes electric, completely fascinating novel.”
—Sonora Jha

Maya Sonenberg's previous collections of short stories include Cartographies (winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize) and Voices from the Blue Hotel. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Fairy Tale Review, Web Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, New Ohio Review, The Literarian, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere.

Anca L. Szilágyi's writing appears in Lilith Magazine, Orion Magazine, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She is the author of Daughters of the Air, which Shelf Awareness called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” and The Seattle Review of Books called “a creation of unearthly talents.”