About this item
Moon Seattle Experience the Life of the City Seattle's creative energy explodes from the innovatorsartists, performers, chefs, and tech mindswho, like the Space Needle, reach for the stars. This book tells you what you need to know to plan the perfect trip for you: Guided walks through the liveliest neighborhoods, including Pike Place Market, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, and BallardThe best ways to experience the city's iconic sightsand suggestions on where to eat, drink, and play nearbyWhere to find the city's best brews and hottest coffeeBest spots for people-watchingBest views of the city skylineEverything you need to know to explore the city by public transitThe best day trips outside the city, including Bainbridge Island and Mount Rainier Navigate by neighborhood, by activity, and by color-coded mapsincluding aneasy-to-read foldout map to use on the go.
About the Author
Guerrilla memoirist, essay writer, playwright and travel journalist, Allison Williams has written about race, culture and comedy for National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review Online and Travelers' Tales. She currently serves as Social Media Editor for Brevity.
Her fiction has appeared in Crossed Genres, Smokelong Quarterly, Deep South and The Drum; her plays include the Heidemann Award finalist Miss Kentucky, scripts for NPR's All Ears Theatre, and the London Fringe Best Of Fringe winner, TRUE STORY.
She received her MFA from Western Michigan University and has been a teaching fellow at the Prague Summer Program and the Kenyon Writers Workshop (with Dinty W. Moore) , and an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Rick Moody, Dani Shapiro and David Shields.
As a storyteller, Allison has performed at London's Theatre Royal and Rich Mix, Filocafe in Mumbai and The Kautilya Society in Varanasi, India, and is a twotime winner of The Moth StorySLAM. As a former aerialist and acrobat, she performed in 23 countries.
Home base is currently Dubai, where "The Pork Shop" is a separate, dimly-lit room at the back of the supermarket. It's like buying meat porn.
Find her at www.idowords.net
