Christopher Frizzelle is an author, essayist, critic, reporter, 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 featured on television and radio, and in magazines and newspapers. Listen to this radio segment about the party from 2015.

In 2020, in response to the pandemic, he created an online version of the reading party, which the New York Times attended, calling it “mesmerizing.”

He is co-author of the book How to Be a Person, and curator and lecturer of the Quarantine Book Club, where we read writers like James Baldwin, Muriel Spark, Toni Morrison, and Rebecca Brown.

He has taught writing and literature at colleges and writing centers, and holds an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars.

He lives in Seattle. What more do you want to know? What his apartment looks like? Ok, here you go.