Author Talk: Justin C. Key and Lakshmi Krishnan

About the speakers:

Justin C. Key wanted to write for as long as he can remember. He blended his passions for science and writing by penning short stories in middle school and sat down to draw up his first novel while studying Biology at Stanford University. He’s been writing ever since. His short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Crossed Genres, and KYSO Flash, as well as in the revolutionary children’s iPad application, FarFaria. He held a writing advice blog for several years at Scribophile.com and worked as a professional health blogger and content editor at WellnessFX while applying to medical school. Justin’s medical training richly informs his writing, and the power of story and narrative allows him to connect with patients on a deeper level. Justin lives in Los Angeles with his wonderful wife, two sons, and daughter. Even as a full-time Psychiatrist, he finds ample time to write. Just don’t ask him how he does it; he wouldn’t be able to tell you.

Lakshmi Krishnan is a physician, literary scholar, and Founding Director of Medical Humanities at Georgetown University. Lakshmi’s work spans history of medicine, literary studies, and clinical research, critically examining diagnosis, medical knowledge, and technological innovation—how doctors know, how they think they know, and what impact those stories have—including the diagnostic imagination in the age of artificial intelligence, and the pressing issues of diagnostic disparities and diagnostic error in patient care. She has also published widely on historical and contemporary pandemics. Her scholarship appears in leading journals, from JAMA to The Lancet, has been presented at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and featured in STAT News, the History Channel, Voice of America, and Science News.

Thanks to our partners Clarion West and Third Place Books.

Thanks to our sponsor  The Seattle Public Library Foundation.

Thanks to media sponsor  The Seattle Times.

Free and reduced access supported by  4Culture.

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Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Event begins at 7 p.m. and will be followed by a book signing.

Clarion West incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1986, with workshop alumni and other interested members of the science fiction community forming its first Board of Directors. With the help of many dedicated volunteers and a core of committed professional staff, Clarion West has produced some of science fiction and fantasy’s top writers and editors. Graduates have received every major form of recognition in the field, including the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards.

Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, we opened a store in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle in 2002, and another in the Seward Park neighborhood in 2016. Third Place Books is a general interest bookstore with over 200,000 new, used, and bargain books in Lake Forest Park and over 40,000 books in Ravenna. It is a fun, comfortable, and safe place to browse, linger, lounge, relax, read, eat, laugh, play, talk, listen, and just watch the world go by.