The pandemic has changed so many aspects of our lives, including book readings for authors! As some of you know, Karen Dorn Steele collaborated with lead author and Hanford downwinder Trisha Pritikin on The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices From the Fight for Atomic Justice, which tells the stories of people sickened by Hanford’s secret radiation releases during World War II and the Cold War. Their book was published last March just as pandemic orders forced book stores to close, but they have since done a series of virtual readings in Corvallis, Seattle, (UW Bookstore), Portland and Spokane (twice at Aunties).

Karen has also been interviewed for a Canadian podcast, Cited, and she and Trisha have appeared on a YouTube event for Columbia Riverkeeper and on a nuclear blog in Los Angeles. If you’d like to read their book, Auntie’s has copies. It has won two prizes so far: first place for history writing at the San Francisco Book Festival and first place for nonfiction at the New England Book Festival.