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Sep

20

2023

Writer in a Life Vest: Essays from the Salish Sea by Iris Graville

From 2018-2019 Iris Graville served as the first writer-in-residence aboard the Washington State Ferries, spending a couple days a week writing on the route that travels between Lopez, Orcas, Shaw, and San Juan islands. The subtitle for her book Writer in a Life Vest: Essays from the Salish Sea is quite literal, as much of the book …

Oct

5

2018

Iris Graville writing on the ferry

Ahoy, Iris Graville, WA State Ferries Writer-in-Residence!

Washington State Ferries has launched–literally–its first writer-in-residence program. Starting last month and over the next year, Iris Graville, a Lopez Island author and bookseller at Lopez Bookshop, is riding and writing aboard the M/V Tillikum as it sails between Lopez, Shaw, Orcas and San Juan islands. Graville is working on a book of personal essays for which …