Join us for a candid discussion on how to balance anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and other mental health issues while maintaining a writing life. This discussion features Sheri Boggs, a Spokane librarian published in The Inlander, Lilac City Fairy Tales, and other regional publications; Audrey Lane Cockett, a poet, performer, educator, and advocate for mental health awareness; Jamison Lee, associate professor of English at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene, ID whose work has appeared in Festival Writer, Blotterature, Stanley the Whale, and Touchstone Literary Journal; and Emalee Gillis, an author whose own journey with bipolar disorder informs her writing and is further explored through her memoir, The Other Side of Madness. The conversation will be moderated by Aileen Keown Vaux, a writer, educator, and public speaker whose chapbook Consolation Prize was published in 2018 by Scablands Books and whose bi-monthly column can be found in Spokane's alt newspaper The Inlander.
We would like to thank Spokane Falls Community College for their sponsorship.
