Christopher Frizzelle is an editor, publisher, writer, and teacher. From 2007 to 2016, he was editor-in-chief of The Stranger, where a story he edited won a Pulitzer Prize.

In 2009, he invented the Silent Reading Party, which has been copied in cities all over the world, and has been featured in the New York Times and on Good Morning America. Listen to this radio segment about the party from 2015.

In 2025, he founded FrizzLit Editions, a small press, in collaboration with art director Corianton Hale. Their first book was the novel Nobuko by Trisha Ready, published in August 2025. Their second book was the memoir My Animal Kingdom by Rebecca Brown, published in December 2025.

As a teacher, he runs the FrizzLit Book Club, where we read writers like Charles Dickens, James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison. He wrote about these book clubs for the Washington Post.

He studied literature at the University of Washington, has a master’s in creative writing from Bennington Writing Seminars, and he lives in Seattle.

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