A Book for All Seasons is so excited to be back at Wenatchee Valley College for their Visiting Writers Series. Come meet regional authors, Maya Jewell Zeller and Dawn Pichón Barron, on Wednesday, April 8th from 7-8pm in the Grove Recital Hall at WVC. Their books will be available for purchase at the event. Hear the authors speak, meet the authors, and get your books signed! Read more about the authors and their books below.

This event is free and open to the public. This series is sponsored by the WVC English Department with support from the Wenatchee Valley College Foundation.

Maya Jewell Zeller
Born in a Pacific Northwest gas station to itinerant, countercultural parents, Maya Jewell Zeller came of age in a landscape where poverty, wildness, and self-reliance intertwined. “Raised by Ferns,” recently published this March, traces the path of a feral girl craving both freedom and safety to a middle-class adult life shaped by academia, motherhood, and uneasy privilege. Raised by Ferns offers a vital, compelling new take on the forces that shape identity and the choices that define home. It is a story of survival, but more importantly, of questioning for what—and who—it is worth surviving.

Maya Jewell Zeller is a multi-genre author of several books and collaborations, most recently "Raised by Ferns," published by Porphyry Press in March 2026 and "The Wonder of Mushrooms," published in fall 2025 by AdventureKEEN. Zeller is professor of English for Central Washington University, and affiliate faculty of Poetry and Nature Writing for Western Colorado University's low-residency MFA program. Zeller lives in the Pacific Northwest with her children, their two tuxedo cats, and an ever-expanding library. Learn more about Zeller at mayajewellzeller.com.

Dawn Pichón Barron
Dawn Pichón Barron is the academic director of the Native Pathways Program and Creative Writing Faculty at the Evergreen State College. Her chapbook, "ESCAPE GIRL BLUES," was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. Other work can be found at Moss, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Washington 129 Poetry Anthology, Yellow Medicine Review, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. She lives with her wingman and chihuahuas at the southern tip of the Salish Sea.