Priscilla Long - Poetry, Fiction, History, Science, and Creative Non-Fiction
I first came to Bainbridge Island as a tourist with Eagle Harbor Books my first stop. I next came to Bainbridge Island as an instructor at Field’s End, a project of Bainbridge Public Library, and to present at the Fields’ End Writer’s Conference, which had the brilliant and kind children’s book author George Shannon as MC. Of late I’ve come over to teach at BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network), and also, and this is a secret, to sit quietly in the library and read. I write poetry, fiction, history, science, and creative nonfiction and serve as founding and consulting editor of Historylink.org, the free online encyclopedia of Washington State history. When I served as senior editor, I edited some 6,000 essays on Washington State history, while also researching and writing a few of them myself. Let’s just say I’m beginning to feel at home here. Now comes the shocking news. (Well, it shocks me.) I am about to turn 80! To celebrate this amazing (to me) fact, I wrote
Dancing with the Muse in Old Age. It’s my seventh book. I wrote it because I wanted to enter this new phase of my life pro-actively, supplied with models of productive, creative, engaged, connected old people whose lives are to be deeply envied, and because I want to be fully informed on the science of aging.
