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Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population in the United States.

In 2018, an estimated 8,600 homeless people lived in the city, a figure that does not include the significant number of \\u201chidden\\u201d homeless people doubled up with friends or living in and out of cheap hotels. In\\xa0Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history\\u2014past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not\\u2014to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society.

Josephine Ensign\\xa0is a professor in the School of Nursing and adjunct professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of\\xa0Catching Homelessness: A Nurse\\u2019s Story of Falling through the Safety Net,\\xa0Soul Stories: Voices from the Margins, and the Washington State Book Award Finalist\\xa0Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle.

Anna Patrick\\xa0is a reporter for Project Homeless, a community-funded team at\\xa0The Seattle Times\\xa0dedicated to covering the region\\u2019s homelessness crisis. Before joining\\xa0The Seattle Times, Anna was a journalist in her home state of West Virginia, where she worked as a feature writer at the\\xa0Charleston Gazette-Mail in Charleston, West Virginia and then later as a freelancer, covering stories throughout Appalachia.