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Saturday, October 5
 

11:00am PDT

Whitney Otto
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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

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

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

2:00pm PDT

Ray Robertson
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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

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

4:00pm PDT

Stacy Bolt and Lauren Kessler
Writers
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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 →
avatar for Lauren Kessler

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

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.
Moderators
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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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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
 
Sunday, October 6
 

11:00am PDT

Barbara Corrado Pope and Nina Schuyler
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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

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
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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 →
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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

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
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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 →
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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

2:00pm PDT

Kathryn Davis
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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

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 →
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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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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

4:00pm PDT

Jerome Gold and Kim Stafford
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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

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
 
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