PLOP! April 17th Installment: Memoir & Cello

April 6, 2010

PLOP! is back and inviting you for our second installment of literary and music performance.

I’m especially excited to introduce two medical memoirists from Seattle hospitals reading first hand accounts and stories of patients, health care, healing and residency; combined with the gracious humor, affect and emotion of Emily Ann Peterson’s cello, and the touch of Young Adult Fiction by a soon to be published Alexa Martin, ala Olympia.

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ANNOUNCING SERIES II: APRIL 17, 2010

PLOP! is an all new performance series produced and curated by Seattle artist Josie Davis. PLOP! Invites select literary and music artists from across the Northwest to perform their work in an intimate house setting for a unique, wide eyed audience. Want to PLOP!? Bring your pillow to Beacon Hill.

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Artist Roster, Series II

Emily Ann Peterson, Cello

Emily first began life as a cellist in 1995 and sustains her commitment to the music community through teaching, recording, and performance. 2009 held a season with the Seattle Rock Orchestra & the Northwest Symphony Orchestra as well as performances with Rosie Thomas, Damien Jurado, Joshua Roman, Grand Hallway, Shannon Stephens, Tara Ward & Jesse Sykes. www.emilyannpeterson.com

Audrey Young, M.D., Memoir

Audrey is the author of What Patients Taught Me, published in 2004, and House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital, published in 2009. People Magazine called her “a fine storyteller”. Her work has appeared in numerous medical journals and other publications. She currently practices hospital medicine at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington. Washington Travel and Life Magazine named her one of Washington’s best doctors. Audrey maintains a health care reform blog called Bonus Tracks and writes about her vegetable garden and kitchen adventures at Eat Local Northwest. She lives in Seattle with her husband and with two dogs who dream of the farm life.

Emily R. Transue, M.D., Memoir

Emily R. Transue, M.D., is a native of Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Transue is the author a memoir about medical training, On Call: A Doctor’s Days and Nights in Residency (St. Martin’s Press, 2004), and the newly released Patient to Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, and Healing from a Doctor’s Practice (St. Martin’s Press, 2008). She has also published stories and poems in JAMA, the Dartmouth Medicine magazine, and elsewhere. She has taught a creative writing elective for medical students at the University of Washington for nine years. She received the Providence-Seattle Medical Center Outstanding Educator of the Year award in 2003. http://emilytransue.com

Alexa Martin, Young Adult Fiction

Alexa is the author of Girl Wonder, a young adult novel due out by Hyperion in 2011. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Olympia, Washington, a beautiful place where it rains an awful lot. It is a point of pride when her friends tell her that she’s acting like a teenager – again. www.saracrowe.com