FOLIO PRESENTS – The Shape-Shifters: Tara Campbell, Ren Cedar Fuller, and G.G. Silverman

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is delighted to welcome local authors, G.G. Silverman (The Blood Year Daughter), Ren Cedar Fuller (Bigger), and Tara Campbell (All the Wayward Angels) for an exploration of all the ways we can morph and change. Through entirely different literary lenses and genres, the authors map the ways we shape-shift to carve out room for our own survival and agency. They act as a collective mirror, inviting audience members to consider the ‘shapeshifter‘ they have had to become, and discuss how they’ve bent their environments, bodies, and realities to fit their true selves.

Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse. She teaches flash and speculative fiction, and is the author of two novels, two hybrid collections, and two short story collections. Her seventh book, All the Wayward Angels: Dream Sestinas (Bottlecap Press, 2024) is a chapbook of oracles, fox gods, golden keys, and prophecies.  Additional publication credits include Masters Review, Wigleaf, Electric Literature, CRAFT Literary, Uncharted Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Escape Pod/Artemis Rising.

Ren Cedar Fuller is a parent facilitator at TransFamilies, an online hub for families with gender diverse children. Her debut book, Bigger: Essays was a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction, shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in Nonfiction, and winner of the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize. Ren’s essays have appeared in Brevity Blog, Hippocampus, New England Review, and North American Review, and Under the Sun, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. 

G.G. Silverman is a first-generation Italian-American writer. She is also disabled and neurodivergent. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Fiction, and the O. Henry Prize, and has been adapted for short film with a Hollywood debut. Her work has also appeared in Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies, and has been a finalist for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Diverse Writers Grant, as well as the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing. The Blood Year Daughter, a finalist for numerous awards, is her debut short story collection.

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