The Five Best Underread PNW Authors of 2025

Brilliant local writers who also absolutely deserve your attention and dollars.by Katie Lee EllisonInstead of another year-end best-of list, I want to shout out the local writers who toil to find the right words in and around our very town, and don’t always get the shine they earn and deserve. In this wild world, local community is ever more critical to our survival, and books are our collective light in the darkness as we barrel toward the winter solstice and the darkest, wettest days of