Hugo House Launched Me as a Writer: Book Launch for Bigger by Ren Cedar Fuller
Join Seattle author Ren Cedar Fuller and a panel of Hugo House alums to celebrate our cityās center for writing. Ren took her first of many creative writing classes at Hugo House at the start of the pandemic, and she credits inspirational instructors and the writing friends she met at Hugo House with developing her craft.
In her debut book, Ren explores how loving people who are different from her has expanded her world. She ponders her fatherās neurodiversity, her child coming out as transgender, a disability that left her unable to cry, and her immigrant motherās Alzheimerāsāwhich carried her back to childhood.Ā Bigger, a memoir-in-essays, won the 2024 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize .Ā
A book-signing will follow the panel discussion, andĀ the house bar will be open to serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.Ā
Ren Cedar Fuller
Ren Cedar Fuller's debut book, Bigger, won the 2024 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 Iron Horse Prize and the Santa Fe Writers Project 2023 Literary Awards Program.
Her creative nonfiction essays have won Under the Sun's Summer Writing Contest in 2022, been a finalist in the 2022 Terry Tempest Williams Prize for Creative Nonfiction at North American Review, and placed second in the 2022 Eunice Williams Nonfiction Prize. Renās essays have appeared in HerStry, Hippocampus, New England Review, North American Review, and Under the Sun, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays.
Ren is a parent facilitator at TransFamilies, an online hub for families with gender diverse children. She taught public school in California, Oregon, and Washington before founding a nonprofit early learning center in the Seattle area, where she continues teaching parent education.
Ren lives in Seattle with her husband, Jason, and loves to kayak on the Salish Sea. She is currently in the M.F.A. in Writing program at Pacific University.
