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Tuesday, October 1
 

3:30pm PDT

Little Word Writers Showcase
Bring your young reader to meet picture book authors Barbara Kerley, author of The World is Waiting for You, and Liz Rusch, author of Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World and Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives, plus middle-grade graphic novelist Barry Deutsch, author of Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite.
Writers
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Barry Deutsch

Award-winning cartoonist Barry Deutsch is best known for his Hereville series of graphic novels, about "Yet Another Troll-Fighting 11-Year-Old Orthodox Jewish Girl." Hereville is the only comic book ever to win the Association of Jewish Libraries' Sydney Taylor Book Award. Barry lives... Read More →
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Barbara Kerley

Bio:Barbara Kerley is an award-winning author of books for kids. Her middle-grade novel, FOLLOWING BAXTER, is a fun adventure story featuring two funny kids, an eccentric scientist, and a big shaggy dog. In a review of FOLLOWING BAXTER, Booklist wrote: “Kerley has written a dog... Read More →
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Liz Rusch

Author, Author
Elizabeth Rusch is a public policy and youth activism expert, speaker, and author of the new nonpartisan book You Call THIS Democracy? How to fix our government and deliver power to the people, which examines in simple terms our democracy’s missteps and how we can work together... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2013 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Central Library, US Bank Room 810 SW 10th Ave
  Children's (ABC)   Satellite Event
 
Wednesday, October 2
 

6:00pm PDT

Wordstock Writers Showcase
Join three local literary luminaries including Cari Luna and Shannon Wheeler for readings from their most recent releases and a conversation about being "Portland and published."
Writers
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Becky Lerner

Author, Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness
Bio: Becky is the author of the book "Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness," published March 2013 by Globe Pequot Press. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a speaker, teacher, and shamanic healer, and shares her botanical knowledge with a variety of clients... Read More →
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Cari Luna

Bio:Cari Luna received an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. Her short fiction has appeared in failbetter, Avery Anthology, PANK, and Novembre Magazine. New York-born, she now lives in Portland, OR. Find her online and on Twitter.The Revolution of Every DayOn May 30, 1995, the NYPD rolled an armored tank down East 13th Street, evicting squatters from two buildings. With gritty prose and vivid descriptions, Cari Luna’s debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, imagines the lives of five squatters from that time. But almost more threatening tha... Read More →
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Shannon Wheeler

Cartoonist, the New Yorker, Dark Horse, Top Shelf, BOOM!, Fantagraphics
I like drawing cartoons.

Wednesday October 2, 2013 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Central Library, US Bank Room 810 SW 10th Ave
  Satellite Event

7:00pm PDT

LitHop PDX
The debut of Portland's new literary bar-hopping party, LitHop PDX, will be on Wednesday, October 2, when several bars and venues on SE Hawthorne between 42nd and 50th are taken over by some of the most exciting publishers and reading series in town. The three-hour happening will be so action-packed you'll be given a map and schedule of over fifty readers to choose from in three thirsty hours. Participating hosts include Bad Blood, Tin House, If Not For Kidnap, Sister Spit, YesYes Books and Now's Ours. Created by Kevin Sampsell and Jeff Alessandrelli, LitHop PDX will happen twice a year with new hosts and venues each time. Venues, schedule and more information available at lithoppdx.com.
Wednesday October 2, 2013 7:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
Hawthorne District 42nd to 50th, Porltand OR
  Satellite Event
 
Thursday, October 3
 

7:30pm PDT

Fest Opener! Oprah's 2.0 Book Club Vanguards: A Conversation with Ayana Mathis & Cheryl Strayed
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Festival Bundle: $25 advance, $30 Door
A 21+ EVENT

Meeting for the first time on our stages: Oprah's only 2.0 Book Club-selected authors. Two strong women with two very strong voices. Add McMenamin's ambiance, a pair of microphones and a free-flowing agenda and an inspired conversation between New York Times bestsellers Ayana Mathis and Cheryl Strayed is guaranteed! Hosted by the beloved Courtenay Hameister of Live Wire fame.

PRICE OF ADMISSION INCLUDES AN AUTHOR-SIGNED COPY OF OPRAH'S 2.0 BOOK CLUB-SELECTED TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE AND WILD. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CASCADETICKETS.COM OR THE MISSION THEATER BOX OFFICE.  
Moderators
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Courtenay Hameister

HEAD WRITER/PRODUCER/ESSAYIST, LiveWire
Courtenay was Live Wire’s host for nine years, and as lucky as she was to have that job, she’s enjoying her new role much more: sitting at the producers’ table and silently judging Luke. You’ll see her on stage periodically, reading an essay or portraying Peg Tut, the scrappy... Read More →

Writers
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Ayana Mathis

Bio:Ayana Mathis was born in Philadelphia to a long line of formidable women. As an only child, a quirky and overactive imagination was inevitable, and at the age of eight she penned her first collection of short stories about a girl named Blue who came to a bad end in a tree... Read More →
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Cheryl Strayed

Bio:Cheryl Strayed is the author of #1 New York Times bestseller WILD, the New York Times bestseller TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, and the novel TORCH. WILD was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and optioned for film by Reese Witherspoon's production... Read More →

Thursday October 3, 2013 7:30pm - 8:30pm PDT
Mission Theater 1624 NW Glisan St.
  Satellite Event
 
Friday, October 4
 

6:00pm PDT

Entertainment for People
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Tickets $8
A 21+ event

With Derrick Brown and B. Frayn Masters as your hosts/performers along with Beth Lisick, Alissa Nutting, beatbox mastermind FOGATRON, videos by Masters & Rouse and more!
Writers
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Derrick Brown

DERRICK c. BROWN is an American poet from Austin TX. He is a former paratrooper for the 82nd airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…one of the best independent presses in the country”, Write Bloody Publishing. He is the author... Read More →
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Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is an actress, comedian, and author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself, the story collection This... Read More →
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Alissa Nutting

Bio:Alissa Nutting's debut novel, Tampa, will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in July 2013. She is author of the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone/Dzanc 2010), which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction judged by Ben Marcus... Read More →

Friday October 4, 2013 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
The Blue Monk 3341 SE Belmont St.
  Satellite Event

7:00pm PDT

8th Annual IPRC TEXT BALL
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Tickets: $15 - $20

Brought to you by the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC), in conjunction with Wordstock, the TEXT BALL is Portland's most unique literary event, where attendees are encouraged to come dressed with text as part of their evening attire. The theme for this year's BALL is "Lieterary Devices." Hosted by A.C. Dickson. Costumes encouraged, not required.
Friday October 4, 2013 7:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
IPRC 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2
  Satellite Event

8:30pm PDT

Wordstock Rocks Songcraft
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Gen Admission: $15 advance, $20 door
21+ event

Wordstock kicks off its festival inclusion of songwriting as a literary craft with four nationally celebrated contemporary songwriters presenting a casual evening of passionate storytelling and harmonizing. Local treasure Larry Crane of Jackpot Studio and Tape Op Magazine will emcee the festivities.

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CASCADETICKETS.COM OR AT THE MISSION THEATER BOX OFFICE. 
Songwriters
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Jolie Holland

Bio:Excavating the roots of gospel, blues, jazz, and regional styles of American music, Texas-born song writer Jolie Holland has carved out a niche for herself in contemporary indie rock. The self-taught musician spent her teenage years singing and performing violin, viola... Read More →
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Michael Hearst

Bio:Michael Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. He is a founding member of the band One Ring Zero, which has released nine albums, including the literary collaboration As Smart As We Are (The Author Project), featuring lyrics by Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood... Read More →
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Rick Moody

Bio:Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia universities. His first novel, Garden State, was the winner of the 1991 Editor's Choice Award from the Pushcart Press and was published in 1992. The Ice Storm was published in May 1994 by Little, Brown... Read More →
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Tanya Donnelly

Bio:Tanya Donelly is a Boston-based singer songwriter and guitarist, and founding member of Throwing Muses and The Breeders.  She was also the singer and songwriter in the twice Grammy-nominated band Belly in the early 1990s. In the late 1990s, she became a solo artist... Read More →

Friday October 4, 2013 8:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
Mission Theater 1624 NW Glisan St.
  Satellite Event   Songwriting
 
Saturday, October 5
 

9:00am PDT

Banking Emotional Currency
Writers
avatar for Jamie Ford

Jamie Ford

Bio:Jamie Ford’s first novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, has been hailed as “an impressive debut” by Lisa See and “mesmerizing and evocative” by Sara Gruen. A story about the friendship between a Chinese boy and a Japanese girl in Seattle at the time of... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

9:00am PDT

Lady in the House: Female Character Creation
Writers
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Rosebud Ben-Oni

Poet, Alice James Books
Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021. She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org... Read More →
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Holly Burdorff

Bio:Holly Burdorff is Managing Editor for HERKIND: A Literary Community Powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She’s an MFA candidate in creative writing at The Universityof Alabama, and she earned her BA in English from Denison University, where she servedas co-editor-in-chief... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

10:00am PDT

Poetry Book Publishers
Writers
JB

Joseph Bednarik

Copper Canyon Press
Bio:Joseph Bednarik has worked in nonprofit literary publishing since 1992. He is the editor of two literary anthologies, The Sumac Reader (Michigan State) and One-Man Boat: The George Hitchcock Reader (Story Line Press), and his articles, book reviews, and interviews have... Read More →
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Cecilia Hagen

Airlie Press
Bio:Cecelia Hagen's work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Prairie Schooner, Poet & Critic, Northwest Review, Christian Science Monitor, Blood Orange Review, Caffeine Destiny, Web del Sol, the Oregonian, and Seattle Review. More information about Cecelia Hagen can be found at... Read More →
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Sid Miller

Burnside Review
Bio:Sid Miller is the founding editor of Burnside Review.  How Can I Love You (If You Won't Lie Down, his third full length collection of poems, will appear this winter.Burnside Review is an independent journal or poetry and fiction from Portland, Oregon.
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Zach Schomburg

Octopus Books
Bio:Zachary Schomburg was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1977. He is the author of three books of poetry, and a fourth forthcoming book, The Book of Joshua (Black Ocean 2014).Octopus Books

Saturday October 5, 2013 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Book Fair Panel   Poetry

10:00am PDT

Michael Hearst, Martha Brockenbrough
Writers
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Martha Brockenbrough

Bio:Martha Brockenbrough has three books for young readers: the YA novel DEVINE INTERVENTION, FINDING BIGFOOT for slightly nerdier, slightly younger readers, and THE DINOSAUR TOOTH FAIRY for little kids still cutting their teeth on books (possibly literally). She's been a journalist... Read More →
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Michael Hearst

Bio:Michael Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. He is a founding member of the band One Ring Zero, which has released nine albums, including the literary collaboration As Smart As We Are (The Author Project), featuring lyrics by Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Songwriting   Writer Appearance

10:30am PDT

Songs to Read and Words to Play
Songwriters
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Aaron Nigel Smith

Bio:Aaron Nigel Smith's “Call To Action” is to get kids moving. In 2002 he founded FUNdamentals of Music and Movement, an arts program which is now the program of choice to over 100 early education centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, NewYork, and Boston. His fun, inspired... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Children's (ABC)   Workshop

10:30am PDT

Kickstarter: An Author's Guide to Crowdfunding Success
Writers
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Rebekah Tyler

Bio: Eight months, six countries, two boys, one mother and loads of baggage are the ingredients of Full Tilt, by New Zealander, Rebekah Tyler. This fearless and spirited memoir about love, loss and belonging is her first book. Orphaned at four, Rebekah was brought up by her grandmother... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

11:00am PDT

Beyond Words: Breeding Social Justice Off the Page
Moderators
TD

Writers
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Chenoa and Keith Egawa

Bio:Keith T. A. Egawa is a published novelist; a graduate of the University of Washington’s Creative Writing program; and an enrolled member of the Lummi Indian Nation. As with his first novel, Madchild Running (Red Crane Books), Egawa’s predominant subject matter is contemporary... Read More →
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Saru Jayaraman

Co-Founder, President, Restaurant Opportunities Center United
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley.  After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded... Read More →
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Corina Vacco

Bio:Corina Vacco felt compelled to write about toxic towns after reading an article alleging that hundreds of thousands of children and teens throughout the United States attend schools built on or near dangerously polluted sites. She found the inspiration for this book while... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Book Fair Panel

11:00am PDT

Writer as Teacher--Those Who Can, Teach?
Can writing be taught? How to encourage creative development in others while finding time for one’s own work? Four writers discuss the interplay of teaching and writing in their lives.
Moderators
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Writers
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Paul Collins

Bio:Paul Collins is a writer specializing in history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature. His eight books have been translated into eleven languages, and include Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey Into the Lost History of Autism (2004), and The Murder of the Century... Read More →
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Bruce Holbert

Mt. Spokane High School
Bio:Bruce Holbert is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, where he assisted in editing the Iowa Review and held a teaching writing fellowship.  His fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, other voices, the Antioch Review, Crab Creek Review, the Spokesman... Read More →
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Jennie Shortridge

Bio:Acclaimed author of five bestselling novels, including Love Water Memory and When She Flew. Her books have been translated into several languages and selected as American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next and Library Journal’s Editors’ Picks. An avid volunteer... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Book Fair Panel

11:00am PDT

Is This Thing On?
From character playlists to actual mixtapes in books, music is all over YA. Probably because music means everything, especially when you're young. So does being a musician affect how you write? What role does music play YA books? Join 5 YA authors, some of whom are also musicians, as they talk about that, their new books, which include music, and possibly a surprise!
Moderators
avatar for Martha Brockenbrough

Martha Brockenbrough

Bio:Martha Brockenbrough has three books for young readers: the YA novel DEVINE INTERVENTION, FINDING BIGFOOT for slightly nerdier, slightly younger readers, and THE DINOSAUR TOOTH FAIRY for little kids still cutting their teeth on books (possibly literally). She's been a journalist... Read More →

Writers
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Sean Beaudoin

Bio:Sean Beaudoin is the author of five novels, including the old school noir mystery You Killed Wesley Payne, the rude zombie opus The Infects, and the punk band diary Wise Young Fool. His stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Onion, Salon... Read More →
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Kevin Emerson

Bio:Kevin is the author of eleven middle grade and YA novels, including THE ATLANTEANS series, THE FELLOWSHIP FOR ALIEN DETECTION, the OLIVER NOCTURNE series and CARLOS IS GONNA GET IT. He is also a guitarist/singer/drummer, and his current project is THE BOARD OF EDUCATION... Read More →
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Tara Kelly

Bio:Tara Kelly is a YA author and one-girl-band. She wrote the award-winning HARMONIC FEEDBACK (Oregon Spirit Book Award, ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Bank Street Children's Best) and AMPLIFIED (Oregon Spirit Book Award Honor). She loves writing about social misfits... Read More →
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Kari Luna

Bio:Kari Luna has seen the world from behind a Hammond organ, through the lens of a commercial camera, and from the top of a Swiss Chalet. Her debut YA novel, The Theory of Everything, was described by MTV.com as "a world we would like to drop everything and start living in... Read More →
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Emma Trevayne

Bio:Emma Trevayne is the author of several sci-fi and fantasy novels for young adults and children. Her first novel, Coda, was released by Running Press Kids in May 2013, and will be followed by a companion novel, Chorus, in Spring 2014. Her middle-grade debut, Flights and... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Ear Trumpet Labs Stage OCC, E-141
  Book Fair Panel   Songwriting   YA

11:00am PDT

Andrea Beaty and Bruce Hale
Writers
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Andrea Beaty

Bio:Andrea is fascinated by innovation. Curiosity, creativity, passion and persistence are recurring themes in her humorous picture books and novels. Her characters range from architecture-obsessed Iggy (IGGY PECK, ARCHITECT) to the inventive Rosie Revere to the irrepressible... Read More →
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Bruce Hale

Bio:Raised by wolves just outside Los Angeles, Bruce Hale worked as a surveyor, actor, DJ, English teacher (in Japan), and corporate lackey, before turning to a career in writing.  Bruce has written and illustrated nearly 30 seriously funny books for young readers, including... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Mountain Writers Showcase
Writers
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Henry Carlile

Bio:Henry Carlile Was born in San Francisco, California. He holds a B.A. and M.A. University of Washington where he studied with Theodore Roethke, David Wagoner, Henry Reed & Elizabeth Bishop. He has worked as a millworker, cannery worker, salmon troller deckhand, army bandsman... Read More →
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Vern Rutsala

Bio:Vern Rutsala taught at Lewis & Clark College for over forty years. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including The Window, Laments, The Journey Begins, and Little-Known Sports. Among the awards for his work are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA grants, the... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Chelsea Martin, and Mike Young
Writers
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Chelsea Martin

Universal Error
Bio:Chelsea is a writer and illustrator living in Oakland, CA. Visit her website.Even Though I Don't Miss YouEven Though I Don’t Miss You captures the essence of being part of a species that is prone to spending nights alone looking up photos of Heath Ledger’s daughter and contemplating making pasta. Its seemingly arbitrary obsession with human evolution an... Read More →
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Mike Young

Mike Young is the author of Look! Look! Feathers (Word Riot 2010), a book of stories, and two books of poems: We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius 2010) and Sprezzatura (Publishing Genius 2014). He edits NOÖ Journal, runs Magic Helicopter Press, and lives in... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Sampsell's Pick   Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Langdon Cook and Rebecca Lerner
Writers
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Langdon Cook

Bio:Langdon Cook writes about the intersection of food, nature, and outdoor adventure. His books include "The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America" (Ballantine, 2013) and "Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager" (Mountaineers, 2009), which... Read More →
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Becky Lerner

Author, Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness
Bio: Becky is the author of the book "Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness," published March 2013 by Globe Pequot Press. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a speaker, teacher, and shamanic healer, and shares her botanical knowledge with a variety of clients... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Whitney Otto
Writers
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Whitney Otto

Eight Girls Taking PicturesA profoundly moving portrayal of the lives of women, imagining the thoughts and events that produced eight famous female photographers of the twentieth century. Inspired by the work of Imogen Cunningham, Madame Yevonde, Tina Modotti, Grete Stern, Lee Miller... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Francesca Lia Block and Ruth Tenzer Feldman
Writers
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Francesca Lia Block

Bio:Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books, Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales and Secrets, and the adult novel The Elementals... Read More →
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Ruth Tenzer Feldman

Bio:I grew up in Long Branch, New Jersey, about the same time that poet Robert Pinsky and cartoonist and author Mark Alan Stamaty did. One summer when I was little and had whooping cough (that was before the vaccine), my mother let me play for hours on an isolated beach. I... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Writer Appearance   YA

12:00pm PDT

A Songwriter, a Novelist, and Some Poets Walk into a Bar...
An engaging exploration of the intersections of lyrics and literature, song and stanza moderated by memoirist, Cheryl Strayed with novelist, Nicholson Baker, poet, Dara Wier, musician and lyricist, Nick Jaina and World Champion Slam Poet, Buddy Wakefield.
Moderators
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Cheryl Strayed

Bio:Cheryl Strayed is the author of #1 New York Times bestseller WILD, the New York Times bestseller TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, and the novel TORCH. WILD was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and optioned for film by Reese Witherspoon's production... Read More →

Writers
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Nicholson Baker

Bio:Nicholson Baker was born in New York City in 1957 and grew up in Rochester, New York, where he attended public schools. He played bassoon in high school and spent a year at the Eastman School of Music. “I bought a white bowtie and a set of tails and played briefly as... Read More →
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Buddy Wakefield

Bio:Buddy Wakefield of Kingston, WA is a Vipassana meditator, a three-time international spoken word champion, novice triathlete, author of three books of vulnerability for growth junkies, and one book about healthy backyard chicken-keeping practices, called HENHOUSE (based... Read More →
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Dara Wier

editor, factory hollow
Dara Wier's books include In the Still of the Night (Wave Books, 2017), You Good Thing (Wave Books, 2013), Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2009), Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006), Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005, 2006 Poetry Center Book Award), Hat On a Pond (Verse Press, 2002... Read More →

Songwriters
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Nick Jaina

Bio:Nick Jaina is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. He has released five albums on Hush Records, while also composing ballets, film and play soundtracks. His recent album, Primary Perception, was released in April on Fluff and Gravy Records. He has composed five... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00am PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Book Fair Panel   Songwriting

12:00pm PDT

The Dark Side: Creating Suspense
Sinister settings, intense and disturbing relationships, conspiracies and memorable characters abound. These authors are adept at getting under our skin: surprising, amusing, and terrifying us. How do they build suspense?
Moderators
BT

Barbara Tom

Bio:Barbara Tom was the co-owner of Murder by the Book, a Portland mystery bookstore. It closed in April 2013 after 30 years in the business.  Barbara continues to write for MBTB's Mystery Book Blog at http://mbtb-books.blogspot.com... Read More →

Writers
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Chelsea Cain

Chelsea Cain is the author of The New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thriller series (HEARTSICK, SWEETHEART, EVIL AT HEART, THE NIGHT SEASON, KILL YOU TWICE, and LET ME GO), and the Kick Lannigan series (ONE KICK).  ONE KICK is currently in production for... Read More →
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AM Homes

Bio:AM Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the novels May We Be Forgiven (Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013), This Book Will Change Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story... Read More →
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Adam Mansbach

Author, Giants of Science, Inc
Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 NY Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, as well as the novels Rage is Back, The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and Angry Black White Boy. His new novel is The Golem of Brooklyn.Adam's presence at Limmud Michigan is sponsored... Read More →
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Mark Sullivan

Bio:Mark grew up outside of Boston and says the best job he’s ever had was selling souvenirs at Fenway Park during his high school summers. He attended Hamilton College, graduating in 1980 with a BA in English. Two weeks later, he boarded a plane bound for Niger, West Africa... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Book Fair Panel

12:00pm PDT

Crossing the (Genre) Line
A discussion with three authors who run the gamut from sci-fi to contemporary to thriller to supernatural. These authors will discuss how to combine and bend genres effectively, maintain consistency while writing across a variety of genres, and reach readers looking for a little of this mixed with a little of that. 
Moderators
LM

Writers
avatar for Francesca Lia Block

Francesca Lia Block

Bio:Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books, Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales and Secrets, and the adult novel The Elementals... Read More →
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Jennifer Irene Bosworth

Bio:Jennifer Bosworth lives in Los Angeles, California, where lightning rarely strikes, but when it does she takes cover. When she's not writing, she can be found watching horror movies, playing the guitar badly, or conspiring with her husband and their savage miniature pinscher... Read More →
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Jessica Brody

Bio:Jessica Brody is the author of 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, My Life Undecided, The Karma Club, and the recently released, Unremembered, the first in a sci-fi/suspense/romance trilogy. Her books have been translated and published in over 15 countries and several have been... Read More →
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JR Johansson

Bio:J.R. JOHANSSON is a young adult thriller author published with Flux & FSG/Macmillan. Her debut, INSOMNIA debuted June 2013. She has a B.S. degree in public relations and a background in marketing. She credits her abnormal psychology minor with inspiring many of her characters... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Book Fair Panel   YA

12:00pm PDT

Tad Hills and Trudy Ludwig
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Tad Hills

Bio:Tad Hills is the author and illustrator of the highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read, Rocket Writes a Story, Duck & Goose, and Duck, Duck, Goose. His board books include the ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book What's Up, Duck... Read More →
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Trudy Ludwig

National Speaker, Author
Bio:Trudy Ludwig is a nationally acclaimed speaker and an award-winning author who specializes in writing children's books that help kids connect and engage with their peers in kind, caring ways. She has received rave reviews from educators, experts, organizations, and parents for... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Peter Sears, Tom Meschery, and Alexandra Oliver
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Tom Meschery

Bio:Tom Meschery was raised in San Francisco, the son of Russian immigrants. He graduated from ST. Mary's College in 1961 and was named to the All-American team in basketball. After a ten year career in the National Basketball Association, with the Golden State Warriors and... Read More →
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Alexandra Oliver

Bio:Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, Canada. She holds an MA in Drama/Cinema Studies from The University of Toronto and an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Southern Maine.  Since emerging onto the Vancouver poetry scene in 1992 and being named the following... Read More →
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Peter H Sears

Bio:Peter Sears teaches in the Pacific University Writing Program. His new and selected poems, "Small Talk," will be published by Lynx House Press in 2014.Small Talk: New and Selected Poems

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Jamie Ford
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Jamie Ford

Bio:Jamie Ford’s first novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, has been hailed as “an impressive debut” by Lisa See and “mesmerizing and evocative” by Sara Gruen. A story about the friendship between a Chinese boy and a Japanese girl in Seattle at the time of... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Kevin Barry
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Kevin Barry

Bio:Kevin Barry is the author of the story collections 'Dark Lies The Island' and 'There Are Little Kingdoms' and the novel 'City Of Bohane'. He has won the Impac Dublin City Literature Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Laurie Blauner and Cari Luna
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Laurie Blauner

Bio:Laurie Blauner is the author of three novels, most recently "The Bohemians" from Black Heron Press, a novella, and six books of poetry. She has received many grants and awards including an N.E.A, Seattle Arts Commission, 4Culture, and King County grant.  Her work has... Read More →
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Cari Luna

Bio:Cari Luna received an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. Her short fiction has appeared in failbetter, Avery Anthology, PANK, and Novembre Magazine. New York-born, she now lives in Portland, OR. Find her online and on Twitter.The Revolution of Every DayOn May 30, 1995, the NYPD rolled an armored tank down East 13th Street, evicting squatters from two buildings. With gritty prose and vivid descriptions, Cari Luna’s debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, imagines the lives of five squatters from that time. But almost more threatening tha... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Scott Farris
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Scott Farris

Bio:Scott Farris is the author of "Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race But Changed the Nation" (Lyons Press, 2011), a study of those men who ran for president and lost, but who still profoundly changed our nation's politics.  Among those featured in the book are... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Get Better Mileage with Your Writing Career: Go Hybrid!
Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

12:00pm PDT

How to Write the Weird: The Hows, Whys and Ways of Valuable Estrangements
Writers
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Matt Schumacher

Bio:Matt Schumacher serves as poetry editor for Phantom Drift and has published two collections of poetry, Spilling the Moon and The Fire Diaries. He lives in Portland.Phantom DriftPHANTOM DRIFT is a perfectbound literary journal dedicated to building an understanding of and... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

1:00pm PDT

Publicity and Publishing Secrets No Author Can Afford to Live Without (and Some Gossip, too!)
Writers
avatar for Kim Dower

Kim Dower

Bio:Kim (Freilich) Dower grew up in New York City and received a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, where she also taught creative writing. Her first collection, Air Kissing on Mars was published by Red Hen Press in 2010 and appeared on the Poetry Foundation’s Contemporary... Read More →
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Karen Karbo

Bio:Karen Karbo is most well known for her best-selling Kick Ass Women series, the most recent of which is Julia Child Rules. How Georgia Became O'Keeffe, published in 2011, was hailed by Vanity Fair as "simply a revelation." The Gospel According to Coco Chanel appeared in... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Book Fair Panel

1:00pm PDT

The Business and Art of Magazine writing
An art form, a paycheck, a way to reach new audiences, or all-of-the-above? Four authors who have published in nationally circulated magazines discuss the benefits and challenges of freelance writing.
Moderators
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Adam Davis

Bio:Adam joined Oregon Humanities in August 2013 as the organization’s fifth executive director. He previously served as director of the Center for Civic Reflection and prior to that was the organization’s director of training and publications. He is the editor of Taking Action (2012... Read More →

Writers
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Lauren Kessler

Lauren Kessler is an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer who specializes in exploring invisible subcultures in our midst. The author of fifteen books, she has written about everything from the gritty world of a maximum security prison to the grueling world of ballet to the surprisingly... Read More →
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Andrew Lam

Editor, New America Media
Bio:Andrew is a writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and, for 8 years, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” He co-founded New America Media, an association of over 2000 ethnic media organizations in America... Read More →
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Jacob Tomsky

Bio:Jacob Tomsky is a dedicated veteran of the hospitality business. Well-spoken, uncannily quick on his feet, and no more honest than he needs to be, he also is the founder and president of Short Story Thursdays, a weekly, email based short story club. His writing has appeared... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Book Fair Panel

1:00pm PDT

So Much for Normal
Three authors discuss how family, abilities and life struggles create a dynamic read that you can’t put down. Characters who find themselves in situations that require more substance than the average teen.
Moderators
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Writers
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SA Bodeen

Bio:S.A. Bodeen was raised on a Wisconsin dairy farm. After receiving a B.S. in Secondary Ed. from UW-River Falls, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania, where she got the inspiration for her Elizabeti’s Doll picture book series, written as Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen... Read More →
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Anne Osterlund

Bio:Anne Osterlund is the author of four young adult novels—Salvation, Academy 7, Aurelia, and Exile—all published by Penguin Books. She won the Spirit of Oregon Book Award and was an Oregon Book Award finalist. Her books have also earned positive reviews from Kirkus, Booklist... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Book Fair Panel   YA

1:00pm PDT

Chenoa & Keith Egawa and Victoria Jamieson
Writers
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Chenoa and Keith Egawa

Bio:Keith T. A. Egawa is a published novelist; a graduate of the University of Washington’s Creative Writing program; and an enrolled member of the Lummi Indian Nation. As with his first novel, Madchild Running (Red Crane Books), Egawa’s predominant subject matter is contemporary... Read More →
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Victoria Jamieson

Bio:Victoria Jamieson is a children's book author and illustrator. She studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, and went on to receive her MA in Museum Studies at the University of Syndey. After living in Rome, Montreal, and Australia, she moved back to the... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler
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Mark Russell

I am the author of God Is Disappointed in You and Apocrypha Now (Top Shelf Productions/IDW) I wrote the comic Prez and am currently writing The Flintstones for DC Comics. Feel free to talk to me about any of these things, as well as spaghetti westerns, fried chicken, and the impending... Read More →
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Shannon Wheeler

Cartoonist, the New Yorker, Dark Horse, Top Shelf, BOOM!, Fantagraphics
I like drawing cartoons.

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Graphic Novel   Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

Red Hen Showcase
Writers
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Katharine Coles

University of Utah
Bio:Katharine Coles is a poet and prose writer best known for her lyric meditations on science, art, history, and perception.  She is the author of two novels and five collections of poems, including The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen Press, 2013), written under the auspices... Read More →
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Ron Koertge

Bio:Ron Koertge was born in Olney, Illinois, April 22, 1940.  Attended high school in Collinsville, Illinois, graduated University of Illinois in 1962 (B.A.), University of Arizona in 1965 (M.A.).  After teaching for thirty-seven years at the city college in Pasadena, he... Read More →
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Tess Taylor

Poet
A widely published critic, poet and essayist, and on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered,  Tess Taylor’s five books of poems blend the lyric and the reportorial in unexpected ways, leading to what Nate Dixon of the Georgia Review recently hailed as “rich investigative... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

Ian Doescher, Tim Zahn, and Cloud City Garrison
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Ian Doescher

Bio:Ian Doescher, born 45 days after Star Wars Episode IV was released, was born and raised in Portland and moved back to Portland with his family in 2008.  He has loved Shakespeare since eighth grade, and attributes his understanding of iambic pentameter to good teachers... Read More →
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Timothy Zahn

Bio:Timothy Zahn has been writing science fiction for over thirty years. In that time he has published forty-four novels, over a hundred short stories and novelettes, and four collections of short fiction. Best known for his ten Star Wars novels, he is also the author of the... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

Robin Sloan
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Robin Sloan

Writer, Self
Robin Sloan grew up near Detroit and now splits his time between San Francisco and the internet.

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

Stevan Allred and Eliot Treichel
Writers
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Stevan Allred

Bio:Stevan Allred has survived circumcision, a tonsillectomy, a religious upbringing, the 60's, the War on Poverty, the break-up of The Beatles, any number of bad haircuts, years of psychotherapy, the Reagan Revolution, the War on Drugs, the Roaring 90's, plantar fasciitus... Read More →
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Eliot Treichel

Bio:Eliot is a native of Wisconsin who now lives in Eugene, Oregon. His debut story collection, Close Is Fine, published by Portland's Ooligan Press, showcases life’s private reflections through plights of family, fidelity, and friendship. Peter Rock (The Shelter Cycle... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Writer Appearance

1:30pm PDT

An Agitation of Memory: Mixing Essay and Dream into Memoir
Writers
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Jay R Ponteri

Bio:Jay Ponteri directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Marylhurst University and show:tell, The Workshop for Teen Writers & Artists. He is the founding editor of both the online literary magazine M Review and HABIT Books, a publisher of prose and poetry chapbooks... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

2:00pm PDT

Creepy Tales from the Cabinet of Curiosities
Join creepy collaborators and co-curators of The Cabinet of Curiosities (EnterTheCabinet.com) for a spine tingling story time certain to put you in the right mood for Halloween--if you dare. Most appropriate for ages 8+.
Moderators
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Heidi Schulz

Children's Specialist, Wordstock

Writers
avatar for Stefan Bachmann

Stefan Bachmann

Bio:Stefan Bachmann was born in Colorado and now lives with his family in Zurich, Switzerland, where he attends the Zurich Conservatory. He began writing The Peculiar in 2010, when he was sixteen years old. Stefan was homeschooled for most of primary school; he graduated from... Read More →
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Claire Legrand

Bio:Claire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn't stop thinking about the stories in her head. Now a writer, Ms. Legrand can often be found typing with purpose at her keyboard, losing herself in the stacks at her local library, or embarking upon spontaneous... Read More →
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Emma Trevayne

Bio:Emma Trevayne is the author of several sci-fi and fantasy novels for young adults and children. Her first novel, Coda, was released by Running Press Kids in May 2013, and will be followed by a companion novel, Chorus, in Spring 2014. Her middle-grade debut, Flights and... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Book Fair Panel   Children's (ABC)   YA

2:00pm PDT

Captivated by Contemporary
What about that feeling of falling head-over-heels in love for the first time? And sex, at promises, and at what it means to take ownership of your own body and decisions about it. 
Moderators
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Stephanie Perkins

Bio:Stephanie Perkins has always worked with books—first as a bookseller, then as a librarian, and now as a novelist. Stephanie lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband. Every room of their house is painted a different color of the rainbow.Visit her onl... Read More →

Writers
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Gayle Forman

Bio:Gayle Forman is an award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author and journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers... Read More →
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Corey Haydu

Bio:Corey Ann Haydu is a young adult novelist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Her first novel, OCD LOVE STORY, is coming out July 2013 from Simon Pulse. Her second novel, LIFE BY COMMITTEE will be out in Summer 2014 from Katherine Tegen Books at Harper Collins. Corey grew... Read More →
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Miranda Kenneally

Bio:Growing up in Tennessee, Miranda Kenneally dreamed of becoming an Atlanta Brave, a country singer (cliché!), or a UN interpreter. Instead, she writes and works for the State Department in Washington, D.C., where George W. Bush once used her shoulder as an armrest. She... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Book Fair Panel   YA

2:00pm PDT

David Biespiel and Samiya Bashir
Writers
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Samiya Bashir

Bio:Samiya Bashir’s second book of poems, Gospel, was a finalist for both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and along with her first collection, Where the Apple Falls, the Lambda Literary Award. You can find her poetry nor and soon in POETRY, Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly... Read More →
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David Biespiel

Bio:David Biespiel is the author of five books of poetry, including Charming Gardeners.Charming GardenersThe formally nuanced and wise epistolary poems in David Biespiel's new collection are grounded in friendship, camaraderie, and the vulnerability and boldness that defines America... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

2:00pm PDT

Star Wars Signing and Photos
Writers
avatar for Ian Doescher

Ian Doescher

Bio:Ian Doescher, born 45 days after Star Wars Episode IV was released, was born and raised in Portland and moved back to Portland with his family in 2008.  He has loved Shakespeare since eighth grade, and attributes his understanding of iambic pentameter to good teachers... Read More →
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Timothy Zahn

Bio:Timothy Zahn has been writing science fiction for over thirty years. In that time he has published forty-four novels, over a hundred short stories and novelettes, and four collections of short fiction. Best known for his ten Star Wars novels, he is also the author of the... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Special Appearance   Star Wars

2:00pm PDT

Ayana Mathis
Writers
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Ayana Mathis

Bio:Ayana Mathis was born in Philadelphia to a long line of formidable women. As an only child, a quirky and overactive imagination was inevitable, and at the age of eight she penned her first collection of short stories about a girl named Blue who came to a bad end in a tree... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Writer Appearance

2:00pm PDT

BH James and Don Waters
Writers
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BH James

Teacher, Stockton Unified School District
BH James is the author of the novel Parnucklian for Chocolate (Red Hen Press, 2013) and co-author of Method to the Madness: A Common Core Guide to Creating Critical Thinkers through the Study of Literature. He teaches high school English in Northern California where he lives with... Read More →
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Don Waters

Bio:Don Waters is the author of the story collection, Desert Gothic, and the novel, Sunland. His fiction has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize, Best of the West, and New Stories from the Southwest. A frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, he’s also written... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Writer Appearance

2:00pm PDT

Chelsea Cain and Chris Keil
Writers
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Chelsea Cain

Chelsea Cain is the author of The New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thriller series (HEARTSICK, SWEETHEART, EVIL AT HEART, THE NIGHT SEASON, KILL YOU TWICE, and LET ME GO), and the Kick Lannigan series (ONE KICK).  ONE KICK is currently in production for... Read More →
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Chris Keil

Bio:Chris Keil is a novelist and occasional university lecturer. He has worked as a sheep-farmer, a journalist, and a tour-guide in a number of European cities. In academic life he has published and lectured widely on traumatic memory and representations of the Holocaust, and... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Writer Appearance

2:00pm PDT

Nichole Bernier and Jennie Shortridge
Writers
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Nichole Bernier

Bio:Nichole Bernier is author of the novel THE UNFINISHED WORK OF ELIZABETH D. (Crown/Random House, 2012), which spent eight weeks on the Boston Globe bestseller list and was a finalist for the New England Independent Booksellers fiction award. A Contributing Editor for Conde... Read More →
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Jennie Shortridge

Bio:Acclaimed author of five bestselling novels, including Love Water Memory and When She Flew. Her books have been translated into several languages and selected as American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next and Library Journal’s Editors’ Picks. An avid volunteer... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Writer Appearance

2:00pm PDT

Ray Robertson
Writers
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Ray Robertson

Bio:Ray Robertson is the author of the novels Home Movies, Heroes, Moody Food, Gently Down the Stream, What Happened Later, and David, as well as two collections of non-fiction, Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing and Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live.  He lives... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Literature online: Publishing new fiction on the web
How has the internet changed our reading/writing experience? How do online literary journals compare to print in form and status? Four authors discuss the risks and rewards of publishing fiction online.
Moderators
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Paul Martone

Bio:Paul Martone is a fiction writer and the director of Late Night Library, a literary arts organization dedicated to sustaining book culture and promoting talented writers early in their careers. Paul's writing has appeared in such magazines and journals as The Saranac Review, Water~Stone... Read More →

Writers
avatar for Stevan Allred

Stevan Allred

Bio:Stevan Allred has survived circumcision, a tonsillectomy, a religious upbringing, the 60's, the War on Poverty, the break-up of The Beatles, any number of bad haircuts, years of psychotherapy, the Reagan Revolution, the War on Drugs, the Roaring 90's, plantar fasciitus... Read More →
avatar for Jamie Iredell

Jamie Iredell

Bio:The author of Prose. Poems. a Novel., The Book of Freaks, and the forthcoming books, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac, and The Lake, Iredell's writing also appears in many literary magazines, including The Rumpus, The Literary Review, Gigantic, and Copper Nickel... Read More →
avatar for Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan

Writer, Self
Robin Sloan grew up near Detroit and now splits his time between San Francisco and the internet.
avatar for Mike Young

Mike Young

Mike Young is the author of Look! Look! Feathers (Word Riot 2010), a book of stories, and two books of poems: We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius 2010) and Sprezzatura (Publishing Genius 2014). He edits NOÖ Journal, runs Magic Helicopter Press, and lives in... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Book Fair Panel

3:00pm PDT

The Power of Print-on-Demand
Moderators
avatar for Kevin Sampsell

Kevin Sampsell

Bio:Kevin Sampsell is a portland bookseller, events coordinator, small press publisher and author. His work has appeared widely in journals and magazines and is included in Best American Essays 2013. He is the author and editor of many books including the upcoming novel, This Is Between... Read More →

Writers
avatar for Jeremy Robert Johnson

Jeremy Robert Johnson

Bio:Jeremy Robert Johnson is the Wonderland Award Winning author of WE LIVE INSIDE YOU, the cult hit ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE,  and the end-of-the-world freak-out EXTINCTION JOURNALS. His fiction has been acclaimed by authors like Chuck Palahniuk and Jack Ketchum and has appeared... Read More →
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Jarret Middleton

Bio:Jarret Middleton is the author of An Dantomine Eerly and other fiction. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Coast Press. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Collagist, Smalldoggies, Big Other, HTMLGIANT, Smoke Long Quarterly, Slingshot and... Read More →
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Cameron Pierce

Bio:Cameron Pierce lives in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of eight books, including the Wonderland Book Award-winning collection Lost in Cat Brain Land and Die You Doughnut Bastards. His fully illustrated novel Fantastic Earth Destroyer Ultra Plus (w/ Jim Agpalza) is forthcoming... Read More →
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Laura Stanfill

Bio:Laura Stanfill, a novelist and freelance manuscript editor, is the publisher of Forest Avenue Press, a Portland-based regional press with national reach. She edited the homegrown anthology Brave on the Page: Oregon Writers on Craft and the Creative Life, which was named a Powell’s Books... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Book Fair Panel

3:00pm PDT

Songwriting as Storytelling
Songwriting covers such a wide spectrum of styles and purpose, but many of them share the intention of storytelling.  This panel draws from three very different song traditions.
Moderators
avatar for Lewi Longmire

Lewi Longmire

Bio:Lewi Longmire has built a reputation as Portland's multi-instrumentalist "go to guy." In the years since relocating to Portland from Albuquerque, New Mexico, he's been included on shows and recordings by many of the Northwest's finest bands and songwriters. He's played with national... Read More →

Songwriters
avatar for Casey Neill

Casey Neill

Bio:Casey Neill's career has always walked the line between lyrical song craft and ferocious live shows. He is a songwriter and bandleader from Portland, Oregon with a sound that explores haunting ballads, high-octane folk punk, and Scots/Irish melody. Neill's latest record... Read More →
avatar for Kevin Emerson

Kevin Emerson

Bio:Kevin is the author of eleven middle grade and YA novels, including THE ATLANTEANS series, THE FELLOWSHIP FOR ALIEN DETECTION, the OLIVER NOCTURNE series and CARLOS IS GONNA GET IT. He is also a guitarist/singer/drummer, and his current project is THE BOARD OF EDUCATION... Read More →
avatar for Mark LaPierre

Mark LaPierre

Bio:Off Broadway: reading of Heart Beatings at the York Theatre.  Off-Off Broadway: Zombie Strippers, Bitterella, Grimm Late Night, and Pinokenstein.  Los Angeles: Out of Hand.  His children's works have toured the United States for over 14 years.  His commissioned two-woman... Read More →
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Mic Crenshaw

Bio: Born on the Southside of Chicago, and raised both there and in Minneapolis, Mic Crenshaw is a world class MC and poet now emerging on the national - and international stage. As a youth, Mic was embroiled in the violent streets of Minneapolis, leading groups to physically... Read More →
avatar for Tanya Donnelly

Tanya Donnelly

Bio:Tanya Donelly is a Boston-based singer songwriter and guitarist, and founding member of Throwing Muses and The Breeders.  She was also the singer and songwriter in the twice Grammy-nominated band Belly in the early 1990s. In the late 1990s, she became a solo artist... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Ear Trumpet Labs Stage OCC, E-141
  Book Fair Panel   Songwriting

3:00pm PDT

Craig Thompson and Gene Luen Yang
Writers
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Craig Thompson

Bio:Craig Thompson was born in Traverse City, Michigan, in 1975, and raised in rural Wisconsin. His graphic novels - Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet De Voyage (2004), and Habibi (2011) - have garnered numerous awards and been published in nearly twenty... Read More →
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Gene Luen Yang

Bio:Gene Luen Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. He was an established figure in the indie comics scene when he published his first book with First Second, American Born Chinese, which is now in print in over ten languages. American Born Chinese's critical... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Graphic Novel   Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Dan Krokos and Obert Skye
Writers
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Dan Krokos

Bio:For nine years, Dan Krokos spent his days pumping gas and thinking about his first novel. After crafting every detail in his head for fifteen hours a day, five days a week, he dedicated every free minute he had to writing. Four months later, Krokos’ debut novel sold... Read More →
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Obert Skye

Bio:Obert Skye is the author and illustrator of the two books in The Creature from My Closet series—Wonkenstein and Potterwookiee. He has also written the bestselling children’s fantasy adventure series Leven Thumps and Pillage. website, Facebook, TwitterPinoculaFor Rob Burnside, things are going pretty well. His friends are behaving, school isn’t too bad, his family’s getting along, and Janae, the girl of his dreams, occasionally notices him. Yep, life’s okay—until the lying starts.Meet Pinocula, the new creature from Rob... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Graphic Novel   Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Emily Pettit and Dara Wier
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Emily Pettit

Emily Pettit is a writer, visual artist, teacher, and an editor for Factory Hollow Press and jubilat. She is the author of the poetry collection Goat In The Snow. She has previously taught and/or lectured at Columbia University, Flying Object, University of Iowa, University of Massachusetts... Read More →
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Dara Wier

editor, factory hollow
Dara Wier's books include In the Still of the Night (Wave Books, 2017), You Good Thing (Wave Books, 2013), Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2009), Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006), Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005, 2006 Poetry Center Book Award), Hat On a Pond (Verse Press, 2002... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Nicholson Baker
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Nicholson Baker

Bio:Nicholson Baker was born in New York City in 1957 and grew up in Rochester, New York, where he attended public schools. He played bassoon in high school and spent a year at the Eastman School of Music. “I bought a white bowtie and a set of tails and played briefly as... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Songwriting   Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Los Portenos
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Octaviano Merecias-Cuevas

Bio:Octaviano Merecias-Cuevas was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. A graduate of Oregon State University, Merecias also holds an MA in Contemporary Hispanic Studies from The School of Language, Culture and Society at Oregon State University. As a trilingual Mixtec poet, socio-linguist... Read More →
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Ivonne Saed

Bio:Graphic designer, photographer, writer and translator, Ivonne Saed has extensively explored the crossroads between the visual arts and the written word, both in her own professional creation as well as in teaching. She published the novel Triple crónica de un nombre (Triple... Read More →
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Kildem Soto

Kildem Soto was born in Huánuco, Peru. He was raised in partly in Lima, Peru and in New Jersey. His first collection of poetry "Poems and Images from an Insane Asylum for the Masses" was written during the time he worked in a psychiatric ward as a behavioral technician. Published... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Saru Jayaraman and Jacob Tomsky
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Saru Jayaraman

Co-Founder, President, Restaurant Opportunities Center United
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley.  After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded... Read More →
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Jacob Tomsky

Bio:Jacob Tomsky is a dedicated veteran of the hospitality business. Well-spoken, uncannily quick on his feet, and no more honest than he needs to be, he also is the founder and president of Short Story Thursdays, a weekly, email based short story club. His writing has appeared... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Liz Fichera and Keary Taylor
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Liz Fichera

Bio:Liz Fichera relocated from Chicago to Phoenix. She writes stories inspired by teenagers who do extraordinary things.  Most of her stories are set in the American Southwest and finds the desert to be an intriguing and mythic place.  With over 20 native tribes in Arizona... Read More →
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Keary Taylor

Bio:Keary Taylor grew up along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains where she started creating imaginary worlds and daring characters who always fell in love. She now resides on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and their two young children. She continues... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Writer Appearance   YA

3:00pm PDT

Research and Empathy: Writing Across Cultures
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Rosanne Parry

Bio:Rosanne lives in Portland where she and her husband are raising four children, three chickens and five kinds of fruit. She works in a tree house in her back yard. She is the author of the award winning novels Heart of a Shepherd and Second Fiddle, and is a frequent visiting... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

3:00pm PDT

Tiny But Mighty: Flash Nonfiction
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Nancy Linnon

Bio:Nancy Linnon is a writer, teacher, and editor whose essays have appeared in Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Los Angeles Review, Yoga International, Mothering and the anthologies What Wildness Is This, Rage & Reconciliation, and VoiceCatcher. Nancy started her career as a... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

4:00pm PDT

GRIMM
GRIMM is a popular NBC drama series inspired by the classic Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales, filmed right here in Portland. Today, Wordstock is thrilled to be joined by cast members, Silas Weir Mitchell and Bitsie Tulloch as they share some original Brother’s Grimm fairy tales with us.
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Silas Weir Mitchell

Bio:Silas Weir Mitchell stars in NBC's acclaimed drama series "Grimm" as Monroe, a reformed Blutbad who is Nick's reluctant informant. Mitchell has worked steadily during his time in Los Angeles, making over 100 television guest appearances on series, including "My Name Is Earl... Read More →
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Bitsie Tulloch

Bio:Bitsie Tulloch stars in NBC's acclaimed drama series "Grimm" as Juliette Silverton, Nick's (David Giuntoli) loyal girlfriend, who is wary of his recent forays into the Grimm world. Tulloch previously starred as Dylan on Ed Zwick's NBC drama series "quarterlife." First made as... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Book Fair Panel

4:00pm PDT

Stefan Bachmann and Claire Legrand
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Stefan Bachmann

Bio:Stefan Bachmann was born in Colorado and now lives with his family in Zurich, Switzerland, where he attends the Zurich Conservatory. He began writing The Peculiar in 2010, when he was sixteen years old. Stefan was homeschooled for most of primary school; he graduated from... Read More →
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Claire Legrand

Bio:Claire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn't stop thinking about the stories in her head. Now a writer, Ms. Legrand can often be found typing with purpose at her keyboard, losing herself in the stacks at her local library, or embarking upon spontaneous... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Burnside Review Showcase
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Jeff Alessandrelli

Bio:Jeff Alessandrelli lives in Portland, Oregon, with his dog Beckett Long Snout. Work by him has appeared or will appear in Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Redivider, Salt Hill, Western Humanities Review, Gulf Coast and Boston Review.  He is the author of three chapbooks... Read More →
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Emily Kendal Frey

Bio:EMILY KENDAL FREY is the author of The Grief Performance (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2011) as well as the chapbook collections Airport (Blue Hour 2009), Frances (Poor Claudia 2010), The New Planet (Mindmade Books 2010) and Baguette (Cash Machine 2013). She... Read More →
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Andrew Michael Roberts

Bio:Andrew Michael Roberts grew up on a small farm in Elma Washington, home of the Slug Festival, in the shadow of a bankrupt nuclear power plant. He spent his formative years searching the woods for sasquatch and running long distance. He now lives with his wife Sarah in... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Buddy Wakefield, Derrick C Brown, and Bloody Write slam poets
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Derrick Brown

DERRICK c. BROWN is an American poet from Austin TX. He is a former paratrooper for the 82nd airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…one of the best independent presses in the country”, Write Bloody Publishing. He is the author... Read More →
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Buddy Wakefield

Bio:Buddy Wakefield of Kingston, WA is a Vipassana meditator, a three-time international spoken word champion, novice triathlete, author of three books of vulnerability for growth junkies, and one book about healthy backyard chicken-keeping practices, called HENHOUSE (based... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Ear Trumpet Labs Stage OCC, E-141
  Sampsell's Pick   Slam Poetry   Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Michael Heald and Jamie Iredell
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Michael Heald

Bio:Michael Heald is the publisher of Perfect Day Publishing. His debut essay collection, Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension, was one of the Willamette Week's Best Books of 2012. His work has appeared in Runner’s World, the LA Review of Books, Propeller Quarterly, Silk Road... Read More →
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Jamie Iredell

Bio:The author of Prose. Poems. a Novel., The Book of Freaks, and the forthcoming books, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac, and The Lake, Iredell's writing also appears in many literary magazines, including The Rumpus, The Literary Review, Gigantic, and Copper Nickel... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Sampsell's Pick   Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Peter Ames Carlin and Kent Hartman
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Peter Ames Carlin

Bio:Peter Ames Carlin is the author, most recently, of Bruce, the bestselling biography of Bruce Springsteen. Formerly the TV critic for The Oregonian and a senior writer at People, Carlin has also published books about Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson. His work has been published... Read More →
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Kent Hartman

Bio:Kent Hartman, the winner of the 2013 Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction at the Oregon Book Awards, is both a bestselling author (The Wrecking Crew for St. Martin’s Press) and a longtime music industry entrepreneur. His clients have included Elvis Presley... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Songwriting   Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Colleen Coover and Martin French
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Colleen Coover

Bio:Colleen Coover is an illustrator and comic book artist/writer living in Portland, Oregon. She is the creator of the adult comic Small Favors, and artist of the all-ages Banana Sunday and the graphic novel Gingerbread Girl, both written by her husband, Paul Tobin. The couple's... Read More →
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Martin French

Bio:Martin French is an illustrator, designer and educator. His distinctive style, an interplay of marks, signs, and symbols spanning a diverse media context—has been recognized internationally for its dynamic visual exploration of life and culture. His unique, graphic... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Nicole Hardy and Scott M Terry
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Nicole Hardy

Bio:Nicole Hardy lives in Seattle where she works as a waitress and a teacher. Her writing has appeared in many literary journals and newspapers including The New York Times. Her essay “Single, Female, Mormon, Alone” was selected as “notable” in 2012’s ‘Best American... Read More →
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Scott M Terry

Bio:In 2007, Scott Terry sent an excerpt from his yet-to-be published book, Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth, to the San Francisco Chronicle. An hour later, he received a freelance contract and a request for more, leading to many stories for the paper and launching his writing... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Stacy Bolt and Lauren Kessler
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Stacy Bolt

Bio:Stacy Bolt is the author of the new memoir Breeding in Captivity. It's a funny, truthful, and sometimes unbelievable account of her many attempts at becoming a mother. Stacy often reads her essays on Live Wire, a syndicated radio program produced in Portland, Oregon. She... Read More →
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Lauren Kessler

Lauren Kessler is an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer who specializes in exploring invisible subcultures in our midst. The author of fifteen books, she has written about everything from the gritty world of a maximum security prison to the grueling world of ballet to the surprisingly... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Ron Koertge and Corina Vacco
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Ron Koertge

Bio:Ron Koertge was born in Olney, Illinois, April 22, 1940.  Attended high school in Collinsville, Illinois, graduated University of Illinois in 1962 (B.A.), University of Arizona in 1965 (M.A.).  After teaching for thirty-seven years at the city college in Pasadena, he... Read More →
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Corina Vacco

Bio:Corina Vacco felt compelled to write about toxic towns after reading an article alleging that hundreds of thousands of children and teens throughout the United States attend schools built on or near dangerously polluted sites. She found the inspiration for this book while... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Writer Appearance   YA

4:30pm PDT

Sex and the Serious Novel
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Chris Keil

Bio:Chris Keil is a novelist and occasional university lecturer. He has worked as a sheep-farmer, a journalist, and a tour-guide in a number of European cities. In academic life he has published and lectured widely on traumatic memory and representations of the Holocaust, and... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:30pm - 5:45pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

4:30pm PDT

Writing the Deadly and the Wicked
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Alissa Nutting

Bio:Alissa Nutting's debut novel, Tampa, will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in July 2013. She is author of the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone/Dzanc 2010), which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction judged by Ben Marcus... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:30pm - 5:45pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

5:00pm PDT

Bringing the Past to Life: Recreating a Place and Time
From Depression-era Seattle to 1870’s Massachusetts, 1890’s Paris, and the Vietnam War, these novelists combine research, personal experience, and imagination to create vivid fictional portraits of a place and time.
Moderators
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Barbara Pope

Bio:Barbara Corrado Pope fell in love with the art, landscapes and people of Provence while teaching French, women’s and religious history to American students in Avignon. Among the places she took her students was Cézanne’s hometown, Aix-en-Provence, where he had a secret love... Read More →

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Jamie Ford

Bio:Jamie Ford’s first novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, has been hailed as “an impressive debut” by Lisa See and “mesmerizing and evocative” by Sara Gruen. A story about the friendship between a Chinese boy and a Japanese girl in Seattle at the time of... Read More →
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Jerome Gold

Bio:Jerome Gold is the author of thirteen books, including Sergeant Dickinson, a critically acclaimed Vietnam War novel,the the memoir, Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Book Fair Panel

5:00pm PDT

Strategies for Reluctant Readers
Four engaging creators of middle grade books come together to discuss ideas on how to turn reluctant readers into enthusiastic readers. Perfect for parents and/or teachers.
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Kirby Larson

Bio:Kirby Larson is the acclaimed author of the 2007 Newbery Honor Book, Hattie Big Sky, a young adult historical novel she wrote inspired by her great-grandmother, Hattie Inez Brooks Wright, who homesteaded by herself in eastern Montana as a young woman. Just released—due... Read More →

Writers
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Jeanne Birdsall

Bio:When JEANNE BIRDSALL was young, she promised herself she'd be a writer someday--so she could write books for children to read and enjoy, just as she did at her local library. She is now the author of the Penderwicks series: The Penderwicks (which won the National Book... Read More →
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Bruce Hale

Bio:Raised by wolves just outside Los Angeles, Bruce Hale worked as a surveyor, actor, DJ, English teacher (in Japan), and corporate lackey, before turning to a career in writing.  Bruce has written and illustrated nearly 30 seriously funny books for young readers, including... Read More →
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Matt Holm

Bio:Matthew Holm is the co-creator of two series of graphic novels for children, the award-winning Babymouse series and the Indiebound-Bestselling Squish series, both from Random House Children’s Books. His latest book is Babymouse: Queen of the World!, a relaunch of the... Read More →
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Obert Skye

Bio:Obert Skye is the author and illustrator of the two books in The Creature from My Closet series—Wonkenstein and Potterwookiee. He has also written the bestselling children’s fantasy adventure series Leven Thumps and Pillage. website, Facebook, TwitterPinoculaFor Rob Burnside, things are going pretty well. His friends are behaving, school isn’t too bad, his family’s getting along, and Janae, the girl of his dreams, occasionally notices him. Yep, life’s okay—until the lying starts.Meet Pinocula, the new creature from Rob... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Book Fair Panel

5:00pm PDT

Writing the Great Outdoors
Nature can be viewed as a creative laboratory. Whether diving for fish in Puget Sound, observing Antarctic seascapes, or dining on nettles, these authors discuss the rugged adventures that inspire their work.
Moderators
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Robin Cody

Bio:Robin Cody was born at St. Helens and grew up in Estacada, Oregon. A graduate of Yale, he taught at the American School of Paris for a decade and was Dean of Admissions at Reed College in Portland before taking up freelance writing in 1984.  While writing, he has been a baseball... Read More →

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Katharine Coles

University of Utah
Bio:Katharine Coles is a poet and prose writer best known for her lyric meditations on science, art, history, and perception.  She is the author of two novels and five collections of poems, including The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen Press, 2013), written under the auspices... Read More →
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Langdon Cook

Bio:Langdon Cook writes about the intersection of food, nature, and outdoor adventure. His books include "The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America" (Ballantine, 2013) and "Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager" (Mountaineers, 2009), which... Read More →
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Becky Lerner

Author, Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness
Bio: Becky is the author of the book "Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness," published March 2013 by Globe Pequot Press. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a speaker, teacher, and shamanic healer, and shares her botanical knowledge with a variety of clients... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Book Fair Panel

5:00pm PDT

Pacific Northwest Literary Organizations: What, How, and Why
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avatar for Tiel Aisha Ansari

Tiel Aisha Ansari

Oregon Poetry Association
OPA embodies the diversity of Oregon. We are young and old. Teachers and students. Nationally-known, award-winning poets with many books and poets new to writing. Although most of us live in Oregon, not all of us do. Those who do are in major cities and large ranches, small... Read More →
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Carolyn Martin

VoiceCatcher
Bio:Carolyn Martin is blissfully retired in Clackamas, OR, where she writes, gardens and plays with communities of creative colleagues. Her poems have appeared in such publications as Naugatuck River Review, Stirring, 5/Quarterly and Drash. A collection, Finding Compass, (Portland... Read More →
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Ann Whitfield Powers

Executive Director, Fishtrap
Bio: Ann Whitfield Powers is the Executive Director of Fishtrap, a literary arts organization dedicated to promoting clear thinking and good writing in and about the West. Their flagship program is the week-long Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers held each July at Wallowa Lake... Read More →
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Robyn Steely

Write Around Portland
Bio:Robyn Steely has served as the Executive Director of Write Around Portland since 2005. Write Around Portland brings free 10-week creative writing workshops to hospitals, schools, prisons, shelters, senior centers, low income apartments, treatment facilities and other health care and social service settings.  Workshops culminate in published books and... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Book Fair Panel   Poetry

5:00pm PDT

Shelby Bach and Rosanne Parry
Writers
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Shelby Bach

Bio:Shelby Bach grew up reading every book she could find and writing stories in battered notebooks. She also rarely came home with a clean shirt and had lots of accidents that ended with a hunt for Band-Aids. (Actually, both those things still happen, but sometimes, she pretends... Read More →
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Rosanne Parry

Bio:Rosanne lives in Portland where she and her husband are raising four children, three chickens and five kinds of fruit. She works in a tree house in her back yard. She is the author of the award winning novels Heart of a Shepherd and Second Fiddle, and is a frequent visiting... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

5:00pm PDT

AM Homes
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AM Homes

Bio:AM Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the novels May We Be Forgiven (Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013), This Book Will Change Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Writer Appearance

5:00pm PDT

Cinda Williams Chima, Dan Krokos, and Josin McQuein
Writers
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Cinda Williams Chima

YA author
I grew up with talking animals and kick-butt Barbies. I nearly failed first grade because I was always daydreaming instead of listening. By junior high, I was writing novels in class, which were often confiscated. Still,I believe in the magic of books. Books took me from first grade... Read More →
avatar for Dan Krokos

Dan Krokos

Bio:For nine years, Dan Krokos spent his days pumping gas and thinking about his first novel. After crafting every detail in his head for fifteen hours a day, five days a week, he dedicated every free minute he had to writing. Four months later, Krokos’ debut novel sold... Read More →
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Josin L McQuein

Bio:Josin was born and raised in Texas, and has lived in a string of small (and smallish) towns that are only known for the movies which have been filmed in them. She firmly believes that the shortest questions are the most powerful, because "What if?" and "Why?" can create... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Writer Appearance   YA

5:00pm PDT

Maggie Stiefvater and Robin Wasserman
Writers
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Maggie Stiefvater

Bio:Maggie Stiefvater is a writer, artist, and musician and the New York Times bestselling author of Shiver, hailed by Publishers Weekly in a starred review as, “a lyrical tale,” and by BookPage as, “beautifully written, even poetic at times, and a perfect indulgence... Read More →
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Robin M Wasserman

Bio:Robin Wasserman is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Waking Dark, The Book of Blood and Shadow, Hacking Harvard, the Cold Awakening trilogy, and the Seven Deadly Sins series, which was adapted into a popular television miniseries... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Writer Appearance   YA

6:30pm PDT

The 9th Live Wire! Radio Wordstock Extravaganza
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An annual festival gem (code for sells out early). Be a part of the live studio audience for 2013's Wordstock edition of Live Wire! Radio to witness another mirthful mash-up of Wordstock writers (some who also play instruments and sing) with the razor humor of the regular LiveWire! players. Featuring Wordstock writers: T.C. Boyle, Kevin Barry,  M.K. Asante, A.M. Homes, Ian Doescher and musical guests Tanya Donnelly and Michael Hearst. 
Writers
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MK Asante

Bio:MK Asante is a bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker, hip-hop artist, and professor who CNN calls “a master storyteller and major creative force.” The author of four celebrated books, Asante is a recipient of the Langston Hughes Award. His latest book, Buck... Read More →
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Kevin Barry

Bio:Kevin Barry is the author of the story collections 'Dark Lies The Island' and 'There Are Little Kingdoms' and the novel 'City Of Bohane'. He has won the Impac Dublin City Literature Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature... Read More →
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TC Boyle

Bio:T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty-three books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The Human Fly (2005), Talk Talk (2006), The Women (2009), Wild Child (2010), When the... Read More →
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Ian Doescher

Bio:Ian Doescher, born 45 days after Star Wars Episode IV was released, was born and raised in Portland and moved back to Portland with his family in 2008.  He has loved Shakespeare since eighth grade, and attributes his understanding of iambic pentameter to good teachers... Read More →
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AM Homes

Bio:AM Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the novels May We Be Forgiven (Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013), This Book Will Change Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story... Read More →

Songwriters
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Michael Hearst

Bio:Michael Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. He is a founding member of the band One Ring Zero, which has released nine albums, including the literary collaboration As Smart As We Are (The Author Project), featuring lyrics by Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood... Read More →
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Tanya Donnelly

Bio:Tanya Donelly is a Boston-based singer songwriter and guitarist, and founding member of Throwing Muses and The Breeders.  She was also the singer and songwriter in the twice Grammy-nominated band Belly in the early 1990s. In the late 1990s, she became a solo artist... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 6:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St.
  Satellite Event
 
Sunday, October 6
 

9:00am PDT

How to Write Stunning Sentences
Writers
avatar for Nina Schuyler

Nina Schuyler

Bio:Nina Schuyler's first novel, The Painting, was nominated for a Northern California Book Award and was a San Francisco Chronicle "Best Book of the Year." Booklist in a starred review called her latest novel, The Translator, "evocative, powerful, and well-paced." Her short... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

10:00am PDT

Poetry Chapbooks: Hows and Whys
Writers
avatar for Judith Barrington

Judith Barrington

Bio:Judith Barrington recently won the prestigious Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize and gave a reading in Cork (Ireland). She has published three poetry collections, most recently Horses and the Human Soul and two chapbooks: Postcard from the Bottom of the Sea and Lost Lands... Read More →
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Lisa Ciccarello

Bio:Lisa Ciccarello is the author of four chapbooks: (the shore in parts) (Greying Ghost Press, 2013), Sometimes there are travails (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013), At night (Scantily Clad Press, 2009), & At night, the dead (Blood Pudding Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared... Read More →
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Susan Denning

Bio:Susan Denning is the author of the chapbook She Preferred to Read The Knives (Dancing Girl Press). Her poetry has  appeared in Filter, New York Quarterly, Quick Fiction and elsewhere. She edited the online magazine Caffeine Destiny for 13 years, and is one of the editors... Read More →
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Trevino Brings Plenty

Bio:Trevino L. Brings Plenty, was born on the Cheyenne River Reservation, Eagle Butte, South Dakota, April 4, 1976. A Minneconjou Lakota Indian, he lived on the reservation until age three, then with family moved to Bay Area, CA. At age 16, he moved to Portland Oregon where... Read More →
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Ryan Scariano

Ryan Scariano’s chapbook, Smithereens, was published by Imperfect Press. Some of his recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Phantom Drift; Basalt; the Willow Springs Books anthology: Heart of the Rat; Verde Que Te Quiero Verde: Poems after Federico Garcia Lorca; and Bright... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Book Fair Panel   Poetry

10:00am PDT

Judy Cox and Aaron Nigel Smith
Writers
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Judy Cox

Bio:I grew up near San Francisco. As the oldest of five children, I loved to tell stories to my younger brother and sisters. Learning to read opened up the world of books, and at a young age I decided to become a writer. I started my first book at the age of eleven, but never... Read More →

Songwriters
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Aaron Nigel Smith

Bio:Aaron Nigel Smith's “Call To Action” is to get kids moving. In 2002 he founded FUNdamentals of Music and Movement, an arts program which is now the program of choice to over 100 early education centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, NewYork, and Boston. His fun, inspired... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Songwriting   Writer Appearance

10:30am PDT

Injecting Your Prose with Poetry: How Assonance, Consonance, Rhythm amd Rhyme Can Make Your Sentence Sing
Writers
avatar for Jamie Iredell

Jamie Iredell

Bio:The author of Prose. Poems. a Novel., The Book of Freaks, and the forthcoming books, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac, and The Lake, Iredell's writing also appears in many literary magazines, including The Rumpus, The Literary Review, Gigantic, and Copper Nickel... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

10:30am PDT

Outlining It Might Not Kill You
Writers
avatar for Claudia Gray

Claudia Gray

Bio:Claudia Gray began her writing career with the EVERNIGHT series: four YA novels set in an eerie gothic boarding school. The EVERNIGHT books received critical acclaim from national media, earned Claudia the title of New York Times bestseller, and jumpstarted her career... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

11:00am PDT

The Short Story vs, the Novel
Does size matter? What form best serves the story? Five acclaimed authors of novels and story collections compare and discuss the unique challenges and joys of each form.
Moderators
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Dave Weich

Bio:Dave Weich is the president of Sheepscot Creative, a marketing agency based in Portland. At Powell’s Books (1998-2009), Dave directed marketing and development efforts as online traffic increased from less than 1,000 unique visitors per day to averages of more than 90,000; he... Read More →

Writers
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Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash is the author of five books, including Dakota Winters. His short story collection Stay Up With Me was nominated for the Folio Prize and picked as a Best Book of the Year by the Independent of London, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Jose Mercury News. His... Read More →
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Alissa Nutting

Bio:Alissa Nutting's debut novel, Tampa, will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in July 2013. She is author of the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone/Dzanc 2010), which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction judged by Ben Marcus... Read More →
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Leni Zumas

Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection FAREWELL NAVIGATOR (Open City) and the novel THE LISTENERS (Tin House), which was a finalist for the 2013 Oregon Book Award.  Her fiction has appeared in Quarterly West, Open City, Salt Hill, New Orleans Review, New York Tyrant, Columbia... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Book Fair Panel

11:00am PDT

Writing for Children and Teens
Creating memorable recurring characters, inventing fantasy worlds, and exploring weighty cultural issues: writing for children and teens is an art unto itself. Four authors discuss the joys and challenges in their work.
Moderators
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Cidney Swanson

Author
Bio:Cidney Swanson is a full-time writer of Young Adult Sci-Fi and Fantasy including The Rippler Trilogy and The Saving Mars Series. SAVING MARS was named to Kirkus Reviews Best of 2012. When she’s not writing, Cidney is distracted by shiny things such as books with raised foil... Read More →

Writers
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Tad Hills

Bio:Tad Hills is the author and illustrator of the highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read, Rocket Writes a Story, Duck & Goose, and Duck, Duck, Goose. His board books include the ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book What's Up, Duck... Read More →
avatar for Matthew J Kirby

Matthew J Kirby

Bio:Matthew J. Kirby is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the middle grade novels The Clockwork Three, and Icefall, as well as The Lost Kingdom and Book 5 in the Infinity Ring series, both forthcoming in fall 2013. He was named a Publishers Weekly Flying... Read More →
avatar for Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, A Thousand Acres, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Horse Heaven. She is the author of thirteen novels for adults, five novels for young adults, and five works of non-fiction, including The Man Who Invented the Computer... Read More →
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Melanie Thorne

Bio:Melanie Thorne is the author of Hand Me Down, a debut novel in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Janet Fitch, named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2012, a 2013 YALSA Alex Award nominee, and the top honorable mention in the San Francisco Book Festival fiction... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Book Fair Panel

11:00am PDT

Emily Winfield Martin
Writers
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Emily Winfield Martin

Bio:EMILY WINFIELD MARTIN sketches, paints, and stitches to create imaginary worlds and characters. She is the author/illustrator of The Black Apple's Paper Doll Primer. Her store, The Black Apple, has been featured in national publications and on TV shows, including the New... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Attic Showcase
Writers
avatar for David Melville

David Melville

Bio:David Melville is a poet who lives in Portland, Oregon.  Recent work is forthcoming in The Oregonian.  When not writing poetry, he is a civil appellate attorney. 
avatar for JoAnna Prahl

JoAnna Prahl

Bio:JoAnna Prahl is an alumni of the Attic Institute's Atheneum class of 2013, and is now pursuing her MFA at Warren Wilson College. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
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Shelley Stearns

Bio:Shelley attempts to enter sensual and collective pulses through sound, moments, and opinion. She lives in Portland and recently completed the Attic Atheneum certificate in poetry. It is important to her creative process that she share her work out loud. She can be reached... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Barbara Corrado Pope and Nina Schuyler
Writers
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Barbara Pope

Bio:Barbara Corrado Pope fell in love with the art, landscapes and people of Provence while teaching French, women’s and religious history to American students in Avignon. Among the places she took her students was Cézanne’s hometown, Aix-en-Provence, where he had a secret love... Read More →
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Nina Schuyler

Bio:Nina Schuyler's first novel, The Painting, was nominated for a Northern California Book Award and was a San Francisco Chronicle "Best Book of the Year." Booklist in a starred review called her latest novel, The Translator, "evocative, powerful, and well-paced." Her short... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Chasity Glass and Rebekah Tyler
Writers
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Chasity Glass

Bio:Chasity Glass grew up in rural Minnesota, not far from Lake Superior. You'll hear her accent on certain words like bag and home and about, though she tries not to say, "eh," too often in conversation. Chasity lived in Los Angeles for twelve years producing movie trailers... Read More →
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Rebekah Tyler

Bio: Eight months, six countries, two boys, one mother and loads of baggage are the ingredients of Full Tilt, by New Zealander, Rebekah Tyler. This fearless and spirited memoir about love, loss and belonging is her first book. Orphaned at four, Rebekah was brought up by her grandmother... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Susan Choi
Writers
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Susan Choi

Bio:Susan Choi's latest novel is My Education.  She is the author of three previous novels: The Foreign Student, winner of  the Asian-American Literary Award;  American Woman, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize; and A Person of Interest, a finalist for the 2009... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Writer Appearance

11:00am PDT

Kendare Blake and SA Bodeen
Writers
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Kendare Blake

Bio:Kendare Blake is the author of four novels: Sleepwalk Society, Anna Dressed in Blood, Girl of Nightmares, and Antigoddess. She's very fond of food, animals, and moderately strenuous physical activity followed by more food. Also, mythology of all kinds. Find her online... Read More →
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SA Bodeen

Bio:S.A. Bodeen was raised on a Wisconsin dairy farm. After receiving a B.S. in Secondary Ed. from UW-River Falls, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania, where she got the inspiration for her Elizabeti’s Doll picture book series, written as Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Writer Appearance   YA

12:00pm PDT

Our Robots, Ourselves?
Robot as metaphor or technological inevitability? Where do man and machine intersect? Is there any humanity to robots? Are we all turning into robots? Disturbing or thrilling? Three authors discuss.
Moderators
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Jemiah Jefferson

Bio:Jemiah Jefferson, a Portland-based writer, Dark Horse Comics editor, and all-purpose geek, is the author of Voice of the Blood, Fiend,ST*RF*CK*NG, and Mixtape for the Apocalypse. Aside from working, she occupies her time watching genre TV, being a massive fangirl, taking kitten... Read More →

Writers
avatar for Kathryn Davis

Kathryn Davis

Bio:Kathryn Davis is the author of seven novels, including The Thin Place, Labarador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, The Walking Tour, Versailles and most recently Duplex, which is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in September 2013. She has received a Kafka Prize for fiction... Read More →
avatar for Daniel H Wilson

Daniel H Wilson

Bio: Daniel H. Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse, as well as seven other books. Wilson earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he also received Master's degrees in Robotics and Machine Learning. His non-fiction... Read More →
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Timothy Zahn

Bio:Timothy Zahn has been writing science fiction for over thirty years. In that time he has published forty-four novels, over a hundred short stories and novelettes, and four collections of short fiction. Best known for his ten Star Wars novels, he is also the author of the... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00am PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Book Fair Panel

12:00pm PDT

On and Off the Menu: PDX Chefs
Two famed Portland chefs. Two books hot off the cutting board! What does it take to convert the perfect food from restaurant plate to cookbook page? These panelists are shaken not stirred.
Moderators
KB

Writers
avatar for Liz Crain

Liz Crain

Bio:Liz Crain is a food and fiction writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. She is the co-author of Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull. out from McSweeney's in fall 2013. The second edition of book Food Lover's Guide to Portland publishes in spring 2014. Her writing... Read More →
avatar for Meredith Erickson

Meredith Erickson

Bio:Meredith Erickson has written for The New York Times, Elle, enRoute, Monocle, Flare, and Lucky Peach. She has also been Managing Editor (Maisonneuve) Project Editor (Phaidon) and Production Manager (Sid Lee) for various magazines, campaigns and television programs. In... Read More →
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John Gorham

Bio:John Gorham, chef-owner of Portland's Toro Bravo and Tasty n Sons, has worked in top kitchens nationally and internationally, and is a four time James Beard Award nominated chef. John began his career with an apprenticeship at ACF in Williamsburg, VA.  During this time... Read More →
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Gabriel Rucker

Bio: Gabriel Rucker is the Chef and Co-Owner of Le Pigeon and Little Bird in Portland, Oregon. His edgy, highly original, and recipe-free masterpieces, evocative of French bistro signatures and classic American fare, have gained him both regional and national acclaim, recently... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Book Fair Panel

12:00pm PDT

Beyond Twilight: The Future of YA Paranormal Lit
Devils, magic, seances, and ghosts...three authors of YA fiction discuss the state of paranormal teen lit in our post-Twilight world.
Moderators
MF

Writers
avatar for Teri J Brown

Teri J Brown

Bio:Teri Brown is proud of her two children but coming in a close second is the fact that she parachuted out of a plane and beat the original Legend of Zelda video game. Her young adult historical about Harry Houdini’s illegitimate daughter came out in June from Balzer+Bray... Read More →
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April Tucholke

Bio:April Genevieve Tucholke is a writer who digs classic movies, red-headed villains, big kitchens, and discussing murder at the dinner table. She lives in Oregon at the edge of the forest.Between the Devil and the Deep Blue SeaYou stop fearing the devil when you’re holding... Read More →
avatar for Cat Winters

Cat Winters

Bio:Cat Winters is an award-winning, critically acclaimed author of fiction that blends history with the supernatural. Her young adult works include IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS, THE CURE FOR DREAMING, THE STEEP AND THORNY WAY, ODD & TRUE, and a forthcoming novel about Edgar Allan... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Book Fair Panel   YA

12:00pm PDT

Chris & Kyle Bolton
Writers
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Chris Bolton

Bio:Chris A. Bolton  is the writer of the all-ages graphic novel SMASH: TRIAL BY FIRE (Candlewick Press). Over the years he has written comics, short fiction, stage plays, sketch comedy, and screenplays. He wrote and directed several short films and an acclaimed web series... Read More →
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Kyle Bolton

SMASH: Trial by FireWhap! Thud! Crash! An action-packed graphic novel simultaneously spoofs and pays tribute to superhero lore while inspiring a new generation of crimefighters.Ka-boom! Clobbered by fallout from a blast that kills the local superhero, Defender, Andrew Ryan suddenly... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Children's (ABC)   Graphic Novel   Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Barbara Kerley and Elizabeth Rusch
Writers
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Barbara Kerley

Bio:Barbara Kerley is an award-winning author of books for kids. Her middle-grade novel, FOLLOWING BAXTER, is a fun adventure story featuring two funny kids, an eccentric scientist, and a big shaggy dog. In a review of FOLLOWING BAXTER, Booklist wrote: “Kerley has written a dog... Read More →
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Liz Rusch

Author, Author
Elizabeth Rusch is a public policy and youth activism expert, speaker, and author of the new nonpartisan book You Call THIS Democracy? How to fix our government and deliver power to the people, which examines in simple terms our democracy’s missteps and how we can work together... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Kim Dower, Andrea Hollander, and Allan Peterson
Writers
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Kim Dower

Bio:Kim (Freilich) Dower grew up in New York City and received a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, where she also taught creative writing. Her first collection, Air Kissing on Mars was published by Red Hen Press in 2010 and appeared on the Poetry Foundation’s Contemporary... Read More →
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Andrea Hollander

Bio:Born in Berlin, Germany, of American parents, raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey, and educated at Boston University and the University of Colorado, Andrea Hollander is the author of four full-length poetry collections. Her honors include a 2013 Oregon... Read More →
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Allan Peterson

Bio:His fourth book, Fragile Acts, is the second title in the McSweeney's Poetry Series and a finalist for both the 2013 National Book Critics Circle and Oregon Book Awards. His last book is As Much As from Salmon Press, 2011. Other books are All the Lavish in Common (2005... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Bones Howe & Kent Hartman in Conversation
Writers
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Kent Hartman

Bio:Kent Hartman, the winner of the 2013 Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction at the Oregon Book Awards, is both a bestselling author (The Wrecking Crew for St. Martin’s Press) and a longtime music industry entrepreneur. His clients have included Elvis Presley... Read More →

Songwriters
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Bones Howe

Bio:Bones Howe  was born in Minneapolis, Minn. in 1933 and moved to Sarasota Fla. in 1941. He graduated from Sarasota High School in 1951 and received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communications in 1956 from Georgia Tech. During his high school years, he was a drummer... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Ear Trumpet Labs Stage OCC, E-141
  Songwriting   Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Adam Mansbach and Mark Sullivan
Writers
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Adam Mansbach

Author, Giants of Science, Inc
Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 NY Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, as well as the novels Rage is Back, The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and Angry Black White Boy. His new novel is The Golem of Brooklyn.Adam's presence at Limmud Michigan is sponsored... Read More →
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Mark Sullivan

Bio:Mark grew up outside of Boston and says the best job he’s ever had was selling souvenirs at Fenway Park during his high school summers. He attended Hamilton College, graduating in 1980 with a BA in English. Two weeks later, he boarded a plane bound for Niger, West Africa... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Diana Abu-Jaber and Paul Collins
Writers
avatar for Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber

Bio:Diana Abu-Jaber’s newest novel, Birds Of Paradise, is the winner of the 2012 Arab-American National Book Award. It was also an Indiepicks selection, named one of the top books of the year by National Public Radio, the Washington Post, and the Oregonian, and a finalist... Read More →
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Paul Collins

Bio:Paul Collins is a writer specializing in history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature. His eight books have been translated into eleven languages, and include Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey Into the Lost History of Autism (2004), and The Murder of the Century... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

Lauren Grodstein and Lucie Wilk
Writers
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Lauren Grodstein

Bio:Lauren Grodstein's is the author, most recently, of The Explanation for Everything, a ghost story about a biologist and a creationist.  Her previous works include the New York Times bestselling novel A Friend of the Family, which was named a Washington Post Best Book... Read More →
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Lucie Wilk

Bio:Lucie Wilk is a medical doctor and author. Her short fiction has been nominated for the McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize Anthology, long-listed for a CBC Canada Writes literary prize, and appeared in Descant, Prairie Fire and Shortfire Press. She is an MFA candidate... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Writer Appearance

12:00pm PDT

The Golden Road to Samarkand (or Any Other Destination, Including Home): Writing About Place
Writers
avatar for Jeff Fearnside

Jeff Fearnside

Bio:Jeff Fearnside is a writer, editor, teacher, workshop leader and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Learn more about his poetry, essays and world travels at jeff-fearnside.com. 

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

12:00pm PDT

Writing Bad
Writers
avatar for Karen Karbo

Karen Karbo

Bio:Karen Karbo is most well known for her best-selling Kick Ass Women series, the most recent of which is Julia Child Rules. How Georgia Became O'Keeffe, published in 2011, was hailed by Vanity Fair as "simply a revelation." The Gospel According to Coco Chanel appeared in... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

1:00pm PDT

Dangerous Memoirs
Should a memoir get your pulse racing with the sheer force of its storytelling bravado? Should a memoir also break your heart? If it was written by someone on this panel, the answer is yes. Find out how.
Moderators
AO

Writers
avatar for Ariel Gore

Ariel Gore

Bio:Alternative Press Award-winning editor and publisher of Hip Mama, LAMBDA-award winning editor of Portland Queer, author of many books including Atlas of the Human Heart, How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead, and The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show. Ariel... Read More →
avatar for Scott Nadelson

Scott Nadelson

Bio:Scott Nadelson is the author of three story collections, most recently Aftermath, and a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress. A winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize... Read More →
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Jay R Ponteri

Bio:Jay Ponteri directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Marylhurst University and show:tell, The Workshop for Teen Writers & Artists. He is the founding editor of both the online literary magazine M Review and HABIT Books, a publisher of prose and poetry chapbooks... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Book Fair Panel

1:00pm PDT

Writing Guides: Help and Inspiration for your Journey
The journey is a long one and it takes a village. Authors of three popular guides for writers talk the talk about how we learn to walk the walk.
Writers
avatar for Sage Cohen

Sage Cohen

Bio:Sage Cohen is the author of The Productive Writer and Writing the Life Poetic, both from Writer’s Digest Books, and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World from Queen of Wands Press. She has won first place in the Ghost Road Poetry contest, been nominated for a Pushcart... Read More →
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Christi Krug

Bio:Christi Krug’s award-winning, soulful, and sometimes devious words have appeared in everything from handmade zines to international magazines, from Sunday school take-home papers to horror anthologies. In addition to several works of speculative fiction, literary fiction... Read More →
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Laura Stanfill

Bio:Laura Stanfill, a novelist and freelance manuscript editor, is the publisher of Forest Avenue Press, a Portland-based regional press with national reach. She edited the homegrown anthology Brave on the Page: Oregon Writers on Craft and the Creative Life, which was named a Powell’s Books... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Book Fair Panel

1:00pm PDT

You Are Next
It’s a group of four young adult authors who travel the country with a pink microphone, a sketchy Stetson, a lot of PEZ, and a show about books. Find them at http://youarenextbooks.com
Writers
avatar for Sean Beaudoin

Sean Beaudoin

Bio:Sean Beaudoin is the author of five novels, including the old school noir mystery You Killed Wesley Payne, the rude zombie opus The Infects, and the punk band diary Wise Young Fool. His stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Onion, Salon... Read More →
avatar for Martha Brockenbrough

Martha Brockenbrough

Bio:Martha Brockenbrough has three books for young readers: the YA novel DEVINE INTERVENTION, FINDING BIGFOOT for slightly nerdier, slightly younger readers, and THE DINOSAUR TOOTH FAIRY for little kids still cutting their teeth on books (possibly literally). She's been a journalist... Read More →
avatar for Kevin Emerson

Kevin Emerson

Bio:Kevin is the author of eleven middle grade and YA novels, including THE ATLANTEANS series, THE FELLOWSHIP FOR ALIEN DETECTION, the OLIVER NOCTURNE series and CARLOS IS GONNA GET IT. He is also a guitarist/singer/drummer, and his current project is THE BOARD OF EDUCATION... Read More →
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Cat Patrick

Bio:Cat Patrick’s first novel, Forgotten, sold in more than 20 countries; won first prize at the Worcestershire Teen Book Awards in the UK; and and was an Indie Next Pick. She is also the author of VOYA-starred Revived, and 2013 launch, The Originals, which earned a starred... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Book Fair Panel   YA

1:00pm PDT

Matt Holm and Kiki Thorpe
Writers
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Matt Holm

Bio:Matthew Holm is the co-creator of two series of graphic novels for children, the award-winning Babymouse series and the Indiebound-Bestselling Squish series, both from Random House Children’s Books. His latest book is Babymouse: Queen of the World!, a relaunch of the... Read More →
avatar for Kiki Thorpe

Kiki Thorpe

Bio:Kiki Thorpe is the author of The Never Girls series, including the New York Times-bestseller In a Blink. The most recent title in the series, From the Mist, was inspired by her childhood love of horseback riding. She’s also the author of some of the best-selling titles... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

Windfall Showcase
Writers
avatar for Barbara A Drake

Barbara A Drake

Bio:Barbara Drake’s books and chapbooks of poetry include Driving One Hundred, Love at the Egyptian Theatre, What We Say to Strangers, Life in a Gothic Novel, Bees in Wet Weather, and Small Favors.  She is the author of a memoir, Peace at Heart: an Oregon Country Life... Read More →
avatar for Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell

Bio:Michael McDowell currently writes poetry mostly about “a sense of place” and prose mostly about nature and landscape writing. His poetry appears regularly in Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place, which he has co-edited with Bill Siverly since 2002. His prose about... Read More →
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Penelope Schott

Bio:Penelope Scambly Schott is the author of a novel, six chapbooks, six full-length collections of poetry, and four historical narratives in poetry.  Her verse biography A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth received the 2008 Oregon Book Award for... Read More →
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Bill Siverly

Bio:Bill Siverly was born and grew up in Lewiston, Idaho, and he has lived in Portland, Oregon, since 1972. He holds a Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State University. He taught Native American and World literatures, composition, and creative writing at Portland... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

Monica Drake and Beth Lisick
Writers
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Monica Drake

Monica Drake is the author of three books, Clown Girl, The Stud Book and most recently The Folly of Loving Life. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, New York Times, Oregon Humanities Magazine, The Sun, The Rumpus, Three Penny Review, and other publications on-line, in print... Read More →
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Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is an actress, comedian, and author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself, the story collection This... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Sampsell's Pick   Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

Kate Lebo
Writers
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Kate Lebo

Kate Lebo is the author of poetry chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Entre Rios Books) and the cookbook Pie School (Sasquatch Books), and she’s co-editor with Samuel Ligon of Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze. Her writing has been anthologized... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

MK Asante and Andrew Lam
Writers
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MK Asante

Bio:MK Asante is a bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker, hip-hop artist, and professor who CNN calls “a master storyteller and major creative force.” The author of four celebrated books, Asante is a recipient of the Langston Hughes Award. His latest book, Buck... Read More →
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Andrew Lam

Editor, New America Media
Bio:Andrew is a writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and, for 8 years, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” He co-founded New America Media, an association of over 2000 ethnic media organizations in America... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Writer Appearance

1:00pm PDT

Tom Spanbauer
Writers
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Tom Spanbauer

Dangerous Writers
Bio:Tom Spanbauer was born in Pocatello, Idaho.  He attended Catholic School and graduated from Highland High School.  He spent five years at Idaho State University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English with a major in German.  He spent two years in the US Peace... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Writer Appearance

1:30pm PDT

From Pictures Come Words - 10,000 of Them: The science of stories reverse engineered from images
Writers
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Ilvs Strauss

Bio:ilvs Strauss is a mixed-race writer, performer, mixed-media artist and lighting designer. She specializes in orginal slideshows with new narratives written for found images.

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

1:30pm PDT

Writers and Social Media: Developing a Distinctive, Memorable, Effective Voice
Writers
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Nichole Bernier

Bio:Nichole Bernier is author of the novel THE UNFINISHED WORK OF ELIZABETH D. (Crown/Random House, 2012), which spent eight weeks on the Boston Globe bestseller list and was a finalist for the New England Independent Booksellers fiction award. A Contributing Editor for Conde... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

2:00pm PDT

In Your Own Backyard -The Northwest Novel
What does it mean to write fiction about the place where you live? How does the fictionalized version stand up to local scrutiny? Is there such a thing as a “Northwest” fictional sensibility? 
Moderators
PB

Writers
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Peter Donahue

Bio:Peter Donahue is the author of the novels Madison House (Hawthorne Books), winner of the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction, and Clara and Merritt (Wordcraft of Oregon), as well as the short story collection The Cornelius Arms (Missing Spoke Press). He is also... Read More →
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Tom Spanbauer

Dangerous Writers
Bio:Tom Spanbauer was born in Pocatello, Idaho.  He attended Catholic School and graduated from Highland High School.  He spent five years at Idaho State University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English with a major in German.  He spent two years in the US Peace... Read More →
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Michael H Strelow

Bio:My 2005 novel, The Greening of Ben Brown, was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Novel Award of the Oregon Literary Arts.  This book is about water, ecology, love, a small town, and the strength of community.  Not incidentally, it's about a man who is turned green in an electrical... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Book Fair Panel

2:00pm PDT

Introducing Four Unique Debuts from Independent Publishers
Four debut authors across various genres (essayist, short fiction, novelists) discuss their experience of working with independent publishers to get their first book published and out into the world.
Moderators
avatar for Chloe Eudaly

Chloe Eudaly

Bio:Chloe Eudaly is a bookseller, publisher, writer, and event organizer who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She is the owner of Reading Frenzy, a specialty bookshop/gallery devoted to independent, small press, and self-published literature, and Show & Tell Press, a small publishing... Read More →

Writers
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Michael Heald

Bio:Michael Heald is the publisher of Perfect Day Publishing. His debut essay collection, Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension, was one of the Willamette Week's Best Books of 2012. His work has appeared in Runner’s World, the LA Review of Books, Propeller Quarterly, Silk Road... Read More →
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Cari Luna

Bio:Cari Luna received an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. Her short fiction has appeared in failbetter, Avery Anthology, PANK, and Novembre Magazine. New York-born, she now lives in Portland, OR. Find her online and on Twitter.The Revolution of Every DayOn May 30, 1995, the NYPD rolled an armored tank down East 13th Street, evicting squatters from two buildings. With gritty prose and vivid descriptions, Cari Luna’s debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, imagines the lives of five squatters from that time. But almost more threatening tha... Read More →
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Eliot Treichel

Bio:Eliot is a native of Wisconsin who now lives in Eugene, Oregon. His debut story collection, Close Is Fine, published by Portland's Ooligan Press, showcases life’s private reflections through plights of family, fidelity, and friendship. Peter Rock (The Shelter Cycle... Read More →
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Lucie Wilk

Bio:Lucie Wilk is a medical doctor and author. Her short fiction has been nominated for the McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize Anthology, long-listed for a CBC Canada Writes literary prize, and appeared in Descant, Prairie Fire and Shortfire Press. She is an MFA candidate... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Book Fair Panel

2:00pm PDT

The Visual Narrator
Moderators
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Martin French

Bio:Martin French is an illustrator, designer and educator. His distinctive style, an interplay of marks, signs, and symbols spanning a diverse media context—has been recognized internationally for its dynamic visual exploration of life and culture. His unique, graphic... Read More →

Writers
avatar for Colleen Coover

Colleen Coover

Bio:Colleen Coover is an illustrator and comic book artist/writer living in Portland, Oregon. She is the creator of the adult comic Small Favors, and artist of the all-ages Banana Sunday and the graphic novel Gingerbread Girl, both written by her husband, Paul Tobin. The couple's... Read More →
avatar for Nicole J. Georges

Nicole J. Georges

Artist and Illustrator
Nicole J. Georges is a writer and illustrator from Portland, Oregon. She has been publishing her own zines and comics for 20 years, and has toured the country extensively, including two appearances on Michelle Tea's Sister Spit tour. Nicole's diary comic zine Invincible Summer has... Read More →
avatar for Mark Russell

Mark Russell

I am the author of God Is Disappointed in You and Apocrypha Now (Top Shelf Productions/IDW) I wrote the comic Prez and am currently writing The Flintstones for DC Comics. Feel free to talk to me about any of these things, as well as spaghetti westerns, fried chicken, and the impending... Read More →
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Shannon Wheeler

Cartoonist, the New Yorker, Dark Horse, Top Shelf, BOOM!, Fantagraphics
I like drawing cartoons.
avatar for Gene Luen Yang

Gene Luen Yang

Bio:Gene Luen Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. He was an established figure in the indie comics scene when he published his first book with First Second, American Born Chinese, which is now in print in over ten languages. American Born Chinese's critical... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Book Fair Panel   Graphic Novel

2:00pm PDT

Songwriters Salon
Songwriters
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Jana Losey

Bio:Jana is a singer-songwriter, composer and performer.  Her collaborations include: a Broadway run and 5 years touring with devised theater troupe Squonk Opera; touring her solo project while making a reality TV show; and newer projects with Mic Crenshaw, Hand2Mouth Theater Company... Read More →
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Mic Crenshaw

Bio: Born on the Southside of Chicago, and raised both there and in Minneapolis, Mic Crenshaw is a world class MC and poet now emerging on the national - and international stage. As a youth, Mic was embroiled in the violent streets of Minneapolis, leading groups to physically... Read More →
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Scott McCaughey

Bio:I am a songwriter and musician who has made many records and played many shows since the early '80s with bands including The Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5, R.E.M., The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3, Tired Pony, Tuatara, etc. etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McCaughey... Read More →
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Willy Vlautin

Bio:Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Vlautin started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and quickly became immersed in music. It was a Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver’s Too Much Water So Close to Home that inspired him to start writing stories. Vlautin... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Ear Trumpet Labs Stage OCC, E-141
  Book Fair Panel   Songwriting

2:00pm PDT

Jeanne Birdsall and Susan Hill Long
Writers
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Jeanne Birdsall

Bio:When JEANNE BIRDSALL was young, she promised herself she'd be a writer someday--so she could write books for children to read and enjoy, just as she did at her local library. She is now the author of the Penderwicks series: The Penderwicks (which won the National Book... Read More →
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Susan Hill Long

Bio:Susan Hill Long has worked as an editor and has written several award-winning books for beginning readers. Her honors include Bank Street College Best Books, Oregon Book Award finalist, and the Katherine Paterson Prize. She lives in Oregon with her husband and two daughters... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

2:00pm PDT

Tung-Hui Hu and Rosebud Ben-Oni
Writers
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Rosebud Ben-Oni

Poet, Alice James Books
Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021. She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org... Read More →
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Tung-Hui Hu

Bio:Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poetry, The Book of Motion (University of Georgia, 2003); Mine (Ausable, 2007); and Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). Described as a "contained surreal style that deftly shapes a philosophical argument" (Los... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

2:00pm PDT

Kathryn Davis
Writers
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Kathryn Davis

Bio:Kathryn Davis is the author of seven novels, including The Thin Place, Labarador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, The Walking Tour, Versailles and most recently Duplex, which is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in September 2013. She has received a Kafka Prize for fiction... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Writer Appearance

2:00pm PDT

Tom Barbash and Natalie Serber
Writers
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Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash is the author of five books, including Dakota Winters. His short story collection Stay Up With Me was nominated for the Folio Prize and picked as a Best Book of the Year by the Independent of London, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Jose Mercury News. His... Read More →
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Natalie Serber

Author
Natalie Serber is the author of a memoir, Community Chest, and a story collection, Shout Her Lovely Name, a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, a summer reading selection from O, the Oprah Magazine, and an Oregonian Top 10 Book of the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction has appeared in... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Writer Appearance

2:00pm PDT

Sara Polsky and Melanie Thorne
Writers
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Sara Polsky

Bio:Sara Polsky is a writer and editor living in New York City. Her writing has appeared in The Forward, Poets & Writers, The Christian Science Monitor, Curbed, The Awl, and other publications. Her first novel for young adults, This Is How I Find Her, was published in September... Read More →
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Melanie Thorne

Bio:Melanie Thorne is the author of Hand Me Down, a debut novel in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Janet Fitch, named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2012, a 2013 YALSA Alex Award nominee, and the top honorable mention in the San Francisco Book Festival fiction... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Writer Appearance   YA

3:00pm PDT

Bitch Magazine: Postfeminism in Arts & Letters
Responses to Deborah Copaken Kogan’s “My So-called Postfeminist Life in Arts and Letters” from the point-of-view of working postfeminist writers. How does this play out in the “real world” of artistic practice? Discuss. 
Moderators
AZ

Writers
avatar for Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber

Bio:Diana Abu-Jaber’s newest novel, Birds Of Paradise, is the winner of the 2012 Arab-American National Book Award. It was also an Indiepicks selection, named one of the top books of the year by National Public Radio, the Washington Post, and the Oregonian, and a finalist... Read More →
avatar for Susan Choi

Susan Choi

Bio:Susan Choi's latest novel is My Education.  She is the author of three previous novels: The Foreign Student, winner of  the Asian-American Literary Award;  American Woman, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize; and A Person of Interest, a finalist for the 2009... Read More →
avatar for Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is an actress, comedian, and author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself, the story collection This... Read More →
avatar for Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, A Thousand Acres, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Horse Heaven. She is the author of thirteen novels for adults, five novels for young adults, and five works of non-fiction, including The Man Who Invented the Computer... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Book Fair Panel

3:00pm PDT

Funny Ha-Ha? The Use of Humor in Fiction
What makes comic fiction truly funny? Absurd scenarios? Snappy dialogue? Compelling characters? Or the familiar viewed from an unexpected angle? Three novelists discuss the role of humor in their work.
Moderators
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Courtenay Hameister

HEAD WRITER/PRODUCER/ESSAYIST, LiveWire
Courtenay was Live Wire’s host for nine years, and as lucky as she was to have that job, she’s enjoying her new role much more: sitting at the producers’ table and silently judging Luke. You’ll see her on stage periodically, reading an essay or portraying Peg Tut, the scrappy... Read More →

Writers
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Kevin Barry

Bio:Kevin Barry is the author of the story collections 'Dark Lies The Island' and 'There Are Little Kingdoms' and the novel 'City Of Bohane'. He has won the Impac Dublin City Literature Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature... Read More →
avatar for Monica Drake

Monica Drake

Monica Drake is the author of three books, Clown Girl, The Stud Book and most recently The Folly of Loving Life. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, New York Times, Oregon Humanities Magazine, The Sun, The Rumpus, Three Penny Review, and other publications on-line, in print... Read More →
avatar for Don Waters

Don Waters

Bio:Don Waters is the author of the story collection, Desert Gothic, and the novel, Sunland. His fiction has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize, Best of the West, and New Stories from the Southwest. A frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, he’s also written... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Book Fair Panel

3:00pm PDT

Writers of Song and Page
Moderators
SJ

Songwriters
avatar for Jolie Holland

Jolie Holland

Bio:Excavating the roots of gospel, blues, jazz, and regional styles of American music, Texas-born song writer Jolie Holland has carved out a niche for herself in contemporary indie rock. The self-taught musician spent her teenage years singing and performing violin, viola... Read More →
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Kevin Emerson

Bio:Kevin is the author of eleven middle grade and YA novels, including THE ATLANTEANS series, THE FELLOWSHIP FOR ALIEN DETECTION, the OLIVER NOCTURNE series and CARLOS IS GONNA GET IT. He is also a guitarist/singer/drummer, and his current project is THE BOARD OF EDUCATION... Read More →
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Michael Hearst

Bio:Michael Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. He is a founding member of the band One Ring Zero, which has released nine albums, including the literary collaboration As Smart As We Are (The Author Project), featuring lyrics by Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood... Read More →
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Rick Moody

Bio:Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia universities. His first novel, Garden State, was the winner of the 1991 Editor's Choice Award from the Pushcart Press and was published in 1992. The Ice Storm was published in May 1994 by Little, Brown... Read More →
avatar for Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin

Bio:Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Vlautin started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and quickly became immersed in music. It was a Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver’s Too Much Water So Close to Home that inspired him to start writing stories. Vlautin... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Ear Trumpet Labs Stage OCC, E-141
  Book Fair Panel   Songwriting

3:00pm PDT

Connecting with YA Readers
Authors discuss how they reach their audience, both through their books and other means (in person events, social media, websites, etc.
Moderators
SG

Writers
avatar for Claudia Gray

Claudia Gray

Bio:Claudia Gray began her writing career with the EVERNIGHT series: four YA novels set in an eerie gothic boarding school. The EVERNIGHT books received critical acclaim from national media, earned Claudia the title of New York Times bestseller, and jumpstarted her career... Read More →
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Nancy Werlin

Bio:I've written 9 novels for teens so far: ranging from suspense thrillers to fantasy to realism, and including the New York Times bestseller IMPOSSIBLE (fantasy), the National Book Award finalist THE RULES OF SURVIVAL (realistic fiction), the Edgar award winner THE KILLER’S... Read More →
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Jill Wolfson

I'm a journalist and novelist who writes often about children in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. A long-time fan of The Beat Within who has been facilitating workshops in Santa Cruz juvenile hall for more than 20 years.

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Book Fair Panel   YA

3:00pm PDT

TA Barron and Mathew J Kirby
Writers
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TA Barron

Bio:T.A. Barron has legions of fans from his bestselling Merlin saga. It's not just Facebook fans who love Tom (although he does have 50,000+) --teachers, librarians, philanthropists, CEOs, kids, parents, booksellers, everyone who meets Tom ends up being charmed by his intellect... Read More →
avatar for Matthew J Kirby

Matthew J Kirby

Bio:Matthew J. Kirby is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the middle grade novels The Clockwork Three, and Icefall, as well as The Lost Kingdom and Book 5 in the Infinity Ring series, both forthcoming in fall 2013. He was named a Publishers Weekly Flying... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Margaret Chula and Paulann Petersen
Writers
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Margaret Chula

Bio:Called the "Haiku Queen of Portland” by the Willamette Week, Margaret Chula has been writing Japanese poetry for thirty-five years. Her haiku have appeared in journals worldwide, on Tokyo train station billboards, at a construction site for the Orange Line in Portland... Read More →
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Paulann Petersen

Bio:Oregon’s sixth Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen has six full-length books of poetry, most recently Understory, from Lost Horse Press in 2013. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

TC Boyle
Writers
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TC Boyle

Bio:T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty-three books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The Human Fly (2005), Talk Talk (2006), The Women (2009), Wild Child (2010), When the... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Spotlight Writer!   Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Bruce Holbert and Benjamin Percy
Writers
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Bruce Holbert

Mt. Spokane High School
Bio:Bruce Holbert is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, where he assisted in editing the Iowa Review and held a teaching writing fellowship.  His fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, other voices, the Antioch Review, Crab Creek Review, the Spokesman... Read More →
avatar for Taylor Mali

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Karen Karbo
Writers
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Karen Karbo

Bio:Karen Karbo is most well known for her best-selling Kick Ass Women series, the most recent of which is Julia Child Rules. How Georgia Became O'Keeffe, published in 2011, was hailed by Vanity Fair as "simply a revelation." The Gospel According to Coco Chanel appeared in... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

Kassten Alonso and Jay R Ponteri
Writers
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Kassten Alonso

Bio:Kassten Alonso is a novelist and book critic. Core: a Romance is his first novel, published in 2005 by Hawthorne Books in Portland. Core was an Oregon Book Awards finalist.The Pet Thief is Kassten’s new novel, published March 2013 by Fiction Collective 2.Kassten has... Read More →
avatar for Jay R Ponteri

Jay R Ponteri

Bio:Jay Ponteri directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Marylhurst University and show:tell, The Workshop for Teen Writers & Artists. He is the founding editor of both the online literary magazine M Review and HABIT Books, a publisher of prose and poetry chapbooks... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Writer Appearance

3:00pm PDT

It's All in the Details
Writers
avatar for Teri J Brown

Teri J Brown

Bio:Teri Brown is proud of her two children but coming in a close second is the fact that she parachuted out of a plane and beat the original Legend of Zelda video game. Her young adult historical about Harry Houdini’s illegitimate daughter came out in June from Balzer+Bray... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

3:00pm PDT

Submitting to Literary Journals
Writers
avatar for Lisa Ohlen Harris

Lisa Ohlen Harris

Bio:Lisa Ohlen Harris is the author of The Fifth Season: A Daughter-in-Law’s Memoir of Caregiving (2013) and the Middle East memoir Through the Veil (2010). Lisa's four years of experience as the nonfiction editor of Relief Journal provide her with added insight to the submission... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

4:00pm PDT

Exploring the Personal
It's not easy to examine your personal history--much less put it on the page. How do memoirists balance humor and pathos in sharing their intimate life experiences with readers?
Moderators
EP

Writers
avatar for Stacy Bolt

Stacy Bolt

Bio:Stacy Bolt is the author of the new memoir Breeding in Captivity. It's a funny, truthful, and sometimes unbelievable account of her many attempts at becoming a mother. Stacy often reads her essays on Live Wire, a syndicated radio program produced in Portland, Oregon. She... Read More →
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Chasity Glass

Bio:Chasity Glass grew up in rural Minnesota, not far from Lake Superior. You'll hear her accent on certain words like bag and home and about, though she tries not to say, "eh," too often in conversation. Chasity lived in Los Angeles for twelve years producing movie trailers... Read More →
avatar for Nicole Hardy

Nicole Hardy

Bio:Nicole Hardy lives in Seattle where she works as a waitress and a teacher. Her writing has appeared in many literary journals and newspapers including The New York Times. Her essay “Single, Female, Mormon, Alone” was selected as “notable” in 2012’s ‘Best American... Read More →
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Scott M Terry

Bio:In 2007, Scott Terry sent an excerpt from his yet-to-be published book, Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth, to the San Francisco Chronicle. An hour later, he received a freelance contract and a request for more, leading to many stories for the paper and launching his writing... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Work for Art Stage OCC, D-136
  Book Fair Panel

4:00pm PDT

Le Pigeon: Collaboration In the Kitchen and On The Page
Groundbreaking ideas and endeavors are often forged through teamwork and collaboration. Award-winning chef and author Rucker & co-chefs (now co-authors) tell the story of Le Pigeon and the synergy that occurs when talented individuals combine forces.
Moderators
avatar for Jack Hott

Jack Hott

Bio:Jack Hott has been working in and around the Portland food scene for more than a decade. As a manager and sommelier of Castagna, a renowned Portland restaurant, he watched the city’s culinary reputation grow into what it is today. After leaving the restaurant, Jack has continued... Read More →

Writers
avatar for Meredith Erickson

Meredith Erickson

Bio:Meredith Erickson has written for The New York Times, Elle, enRoute, Monocle, Flare, and Lucky Peach. She has also been Managing Editor (Maisonneuve) Project Editor (Phaidon) and Production Manager (Sid Lee) for various magazines, campaigns and television programs. In... Read More →
avatar for Lauren Fortgang

Lauren Fortgang

Bio:Lauren Fortgang knew she wanted to be a chef at a very young age. Immediately after high school, Lauren left her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska and headed to San Francisco where she attended the California Culinary Academy.  While at the CCA, Lauren completed an externship... Read More →
avatar for Andrew Fortgang

Andrew Fortgang

Bio:Andrew Fortgang is Co-Owner, Manager and Sommelier of Le Pigeon and Little Bird. Andrew feels truly blessed that his passions are his profession; he surrounds himself with good food, great wine (“Life is too short to drink anything else” is a motto he lives by), and... Read More →
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David L Reamer

Bio:DAVID L. REAMER is a food and lifestyle photographer whose images have appeared in Bon Appetit, Food & Wine and GC.  Born and raised in New Jersey,  David cooked for thirteen years before finally trading his chef's knife for a camera.  He first met Gabriel Rucker... Read More →
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Gabriel Rucker

Bio: Gabriel Rucker is the Chef and Co-Owner of Le Pigeon and Little Bird in Portland, Oregon. His edgy, highly original, and recipe-free masterpieces, evocative of French bistro signatures and classic American fare, have gained him both regional and national acclaim, recently... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Book Fair Panel

4:00pm PDT

The Audio-Wise Author: Writing and Marketing Your Own Audiobook
The state of the audio book: What’s a peak listening experience? Is writing for audio different than writing for print? Is there an audiobook and e-book connection? The executive producer at Audible Studios tells all.
Writers
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Susie Bright

Best-selling author, editor, reporter, and publisher Susie Bright spent formative years in SF as editor of On Our Backs, film programmer at Frameline, and reporter at San Francisco Review of Books, SF Chronicle, Salon, Weirdo and Young Lust comix. She is a multiple-time failed spelling... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Book Fair Panel

4:00pm PDT

Songwriters Presentations
Songwriters
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Mark LaPierre

Bio:Off Broadway: reading of Heart Beatings at the York Theatre.  Off-Off Broadway: Zombie Strippers, Bitterella, Grimm Late Night, and Pinokenstein.  Los Angeles: Out of Hand.  His children's works have toured the United States for over 14 years.  His commissioned two-woman... Read More →
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Michael Hearst

Bio:Michael Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. He is a founding member of the band One Ring Zero, which has released nine albums, including the literary collaboration As Smart As We Are (The Author Project), featuring lyrics by Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Ear Trumpet Labs Stage OCC, E-141
  Book Fair Panel   Songwriting

4:00pm PDT

Kristen Kittscher and Cynthia Voigt
Writers
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Kristen Kittscher

Author, Harper Children's
Bio: Kristen Kittscher taught middle and high school English for many years and now runs an after-school tutoring business in Pasadena, California where she lives with her husband, Kai. A graduate of Brown University with a degree in Comparative Literature, Kristen worked as a story... Read More →
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Cynthia Voigt

Bio:CYNTHIA VOIGT is the acclaimed author of many books, including Dicey's Song, winner of the Newbery Medal, and A Solitary Blue, winner of a Newbery Honor, and Homecoming. For the body of her work, Cynthia Voigt was honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Airlie Press Showcase
Writers
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Annie Lighthart

Bio:Annie Lighthart is the author of Iron String (Airlie Press). Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Cimarron Review, CALYX and other publications.Iron String
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Carter McKenzie

editor, Airlie Press
Bio:Carter McKenzie’s poems have appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems and Canary: a Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis. Her essay “A Simple Instrument: Remembering the Berkeley Poets Cooperative... Read More →
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Dawn Diez Willis

Contributor & Editor, Airlie Press
Bio: Dawn Diez Willis was born in San Diego and spent many years as a bookstore clerk and cocktail waitress before returning to college in earnest to earn a liberal arts degree from San Diego State University. While there, she studied poetry with Marilyn Chin, Frances Payne Adler... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Poetry   Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Alissa Nutting and Leni Zumas
Writers
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Alissa Nutting

Bio:Alissa Nutting's debut novel, Tampa, will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in July 2013. She is author of the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone/Dzanc 2010), which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction judged by Ben Marcus... Read More →
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Leni Zumas

Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection FAREWELL NAVIGATOR (Open City) and the novel THE LISTENERS (Tin House), which was a finalist for the 2013 Oregon Book Award.  Her fiction has appeared in Quarterly West, Open City, Salt Hill, New Orleans Review, New York Tyrant, Columbia... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
National Endowment for the Arts Stage OCC
  Sampsell's Pick   Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Jerome Gold and Kim Stafford
Writers
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Jerome Gold

Bio:Jerome Gold is the author of thirteen books, including Sergeant Dickinson, a critically acclaimed Vietnam War novel,the the memoir, Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer... Read More →
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Kim Stafford

Bio:Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft and A Thousand Friends of Rain... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Writer Appearance

4:00pm PDT

Malinda Lo and Marissa Meyer
Writers
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Malinda Lo

Bio:Malinda Lo is the author of several young adult novels, including most recently the sci-fi thriller Adaptation, which is a finalist for the 2013 Lambda Book Award and a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of 2013. The sequel, Inheritance, will be published by Little... Read More →
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Marissa Meyer

Author
Bio:Marissa Meyer got her start writing fanfiction for the popular magic-girl anime Sailor Moon, and she thinks it's kind of amazing that there is now fanfic based on her own books. She also loves Firefly, any occasion where she gets to wear a costume, and telling people the... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Writer Appearance   YA

4:30pm PDT

Major Minors: The Heavy Lifting Done by Secondary Characters
Writers
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Natalie Serber

Author
Natalie Serber is the author of a memoir, Community Chest, and a story collection, Shout Her Lovely Name, a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, a summer reading selection from O, the Oprah Magazine, and an Oregonian Top 10 Book of the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction has appeared in... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:30pm - 5:45pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

5:00pm PDT

Diversity in Literature for Children and Teens
How important is diversity in literature for children and teens? Three authors discuss creating diverse characters and settings and why every reader should be able to find him or herself on the page.
Moderators
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Rosanne Parry

Bio:Rosanne lives in Portland where she and her husband are raising four children, three chickens and five kinds of fruit. She works in a tree house in her back yard. She is the author of the award winning novels Heart of a Shepherd and Second Fiddle, and is a frequent visiting... Read More →

Writers
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Liz Fichera

Bio:Liz Fichera relocated from Chicago to Phoenix. She writes stories inspired by teenagers who do extraordinary things.  Most of her stories are set in the American Southwest and finds the desert to be an intriguing and mythic place.  With over 20 native tribes in Arizona... Read More →
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Corey Haydu

Bio:Corey Ann Haydu is a young adult novelist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Her first novel, OCD LOVE STORY, is coming out July 2013 from Simon Pulse. Her second novel, LIFE BY COMMITTEE will be out in Summer 2014 from Katherine Tegen Books at Harper Collins. Corey grew... Read More →
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Emma Trevayne

Bio:Emma Trevayne is the author of several sci-fi and fantasy novels for young adults and children. Her first novel, Coda, was released by Running Press Kids in May 2013, and will be followed by a companion novel, Chorus, in Spring 2014. Her middle-grade debut, Flights and... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Comcast Stage OCC, D-138
  Book Fair Panel

5:00pm PDT

Winners of the Sledgehammer Writing Contest
Sponsored by Indigo Editing, this humdinger of a writing contest brings out some of the best and brightest PDX has to offer. Thirty-six hours. One story. A couple of all-out winners. This stage.  
Moderators
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Monica Drake

Monica Drake is the author of three books, Clown Girl, The Stud Book and most recently The Folly of Loving Life. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, New York Times, Oregon Humanities Magazine, The Sun, The Rumpus, Three Penny Review, and other publications on-line, in print... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Jupiter Hotel Stage OCC, D-134
  Book Fair Panel

5:00pm PDT

Writing One After Another: The Midcareer Novel
A successful, sustained writing practice that yields one good novel after another? It’s a minor miracle. How do these novelists do it? Anecdotes and horror stories from the front lines.
Writers
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Lauren Grodstein

Bio:Lauren Grodstein's is the author, most recently, of The Explanation for Everything, a ghost story about a biologist and a creationist.  Her previous works include the New York Times bestselling novel A Friend of the Family, which was named a Washington Post Best Book... Read More →
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Ray Robertson

Bio:Ray Robertson is the author of the novels Home Movies, Heroes, Moody Food, Gently Down the Stream, What Happened Later, and David, as well as two collections of non-fiction, Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing and Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live.  He lives... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Mutt Enterprises Stage OCC, D-135
  Book Fair Panel

5:00pm PDT

Poetry Journal: Hows and Whys: What To Do & What Not To Do
Writers
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David Axelrod

Basalt
David Axelrod is the editor of basalt: a journal of fine and literary arts, and Sensational Nightingales: The Collected Poetry of Walter Pavlich, published by Lynx House Press. His new collection of poems, The Open Hand, appeared from Lost Horse Press in the autumn of 2017. His second... Read More →
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Kevin Craft

Poetry Northwest
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Matt Schumacher

Bio:Matt Schumacher serves as poetry editor for Phantom Drift and has published two collections of poetry, Spilling the Moon and The Fire Diaries. He lives in Portland.Phantom DriftPHANTOM DRIFT is a perfectbound literary journal dedicated to building an understanding of and... Read More →
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Peter H Sears

Bio:Peter Sears teaches in the Pacific University Writing Program. His new and selected poems, "Small Talk," will be published by Lynx House Press in 2014.Small Talk: New and Selected Poems

Sunday October 6, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Oregon Arts Commission Poetry Stage OCC, D-133
  Book Fair Panel   Poetry

5:00pm PDT

Kirby Larson and Jane Smiley
Writers
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Kirby Larson

Bio:Kirby Larson is the acclaimed author of the 2007 Newbery Honor Book, Hattie Big Sky, a young adult historical novel she wrote inspired by her great-grandmother, Hattie Inez Brooks Wright, who homesteaded by herself in eastern Montana as a young woman. Just released—due... Read More →
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Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, A Thousand Acres, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Horse Heaven. She is the author of thirteen novels for adults, five novels for young adults, and five works of non-fiction, including The Man Who Invented the Computer... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Knowledge Universe Little Word Stage OCC,
  Children's (ABC)   Writer Appearance

5:00pm PDT

Anis Mojgani
Writers
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Sunday October 6, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
McMenamins Stage OCC, Main Stage
  Slam Poetry   Writer Appearance

5:00pm PDT

Nancy Werlin and Kari Luna
Writers
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Kari Luna

Bio:Kari Luna has seen the world from behind a Hammond organ, through the lens of a commercial camera, and from the top of a Swiss Chalet. Her debut YA novel, The Theory of Everything, was described by MTV.com as "a world we would like to drop everything and start living in... Read More →
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Nancy Werlin

Bio:I've written 9 novels for teens so far: ranging from suspense thrillers to fantasy to realism, and including the New York Times bestseller IMPOSSIBLE (fantasy), the National Book Award finalist THE RULES OF SURVIVAL (realistic fiction), the Edgar award winner THE KILLER’S... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Mac Store Stage OCC, D-137
  Writer Appearance   YA
 
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