Guest Author Series: Rebecca Woolf
Sat, Oct 17
|Griffin Bay Bookstore & Cafe
Join Island Verse for an evening with Rebecca Woolf, bestselling memoirist, feminist writer, and fierce advocate for women telling the complex and piercing and paradigm-shifting truth of their lives.
Time & Location
Oct 17, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Griffin Bay Bookstore & Cafe, 155 Spring St, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
About the event
Rebecca Woolf has worked as a personal essayist since her early teens, contributing to numerous publications, websites and anthologies, including her own award-winning personal blog, Girl’s Gone Child (est 2005) which attracted millions of unique visitors. She has written columns for Babble, Mom.me, and Romper and has been featured in New York Magazine, The New York Times, NPR, Refinery29, LitHub and more. She currently authors the column Sex & the Single Mom and the braid newsletter on substack and co-writes the column Girl on Girl on the rumpus. She also co-teaches The Living Gaze grief writer’s workshop, Write the Marrow, a workshop on truth-telling and The Bench Sessions, a private community for women contemplating divorce. She is the author of Rockabye: From Wild to Child (Seal Press, 2008) and the bestselling memoir, ALL OF THIS: a memoir of death and desire (Harper One, 2022). She also works one-on-one with memoirists as a book coach. Rebecca lives in Los Angeles with her four children, bulldog…