Wordstock Festival of Words 2013

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →