Wordstock Festival 2011: Directory

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I like the ugly truth. I want to see your delicate story all dolled up like painted hearts in a house of cards. Then I want to see it stripped down to component parts. Want to see bare metal on bare skin, the lack of things between, the friction of truth and movement occasionally gliding on the lubricant of blood.

Wieden + Kennedy

Andrea Kienle

Company PDX Pop Now!
Location Portland, Oregon

Eric A. Kimmel

Eric A. Kimmel is the author of over 100 books for children, including such classics as ANANSI AND THE MOSS-COVERED ROCK and HERSHEL AND HANUKKAH GOBLINS. A former professor at Portland State, he and his wife Doris have traveled all over the world collecting stories.

Kurt Kremer

Robert Kroese

Linda Kuhlmann

Linda Kuhlmann is an Oregon author. Her new mystery novel, THE RED BOOTS, takes place in both Ireland and Oregon and has a YouTube book trailer that she created as a promotional tool. Her fictional writing career started after she retired from her job as a Systems Analyst, where she taught computer software classes. Her first novel, KOENIG’S WONDER, is partially based on her family history. In addition to her writing, she volunteers on a Job Shadow Program for teens interested in a career in writing and also holds writing workshops for local schools.

Annie Lamberto

Robert Lamirande

Robert Lamirande is a Seattle fiction writer whose first novel, Someone Worth Knowing, is a mess of autism and alcohol.

Jennifer Lauck

Jennifer Lauck is an award-winning journalist, celebrated teacher and the author of the New York Times best seller BLACKBIRD. When featured on The Oprah Show, Winfrey told her audience, “This should have been a Book of the Month book. Read it now!“ Frank McCourt, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner, ANGELA’S ASHES, wrote of Blackbird: “Written gloriously and movingly.“ The London Times wrote: “Lauck has constructed a riveting narrative from the awful mess of her life. That she has managed to do so fills me with an admiration for which I cannot find words. The best I can do is… Read more

Vy Le

I'm a YA book blogger.

Location Oregon

Golden Leaf

Booth #305

Lindsey Leavitt

Lindsey Leavitt is a former elementary school teacher and present-day writer/mom to three (mostly) adorable little girls. She is married to her high-school lab partner and lives in Las Vegas. She is the author of the PRINCESS FOR HIRE series and SEAN GRISWOLD’S HEAD.

Temple Lentz

Larry Levin

Larry Levin, a native and resident of Philadelphia, has been married to Jennifer Berke Levin since 1982. Their sons, Noah and Dan, were born in 1980. OOGY is Levin’s first book.

Anna Lewis

Friends of the Jefferson Library

Booth #714

Friends of the Multnomah County Library

The Friends of the Multnomah County Library (FOL) advocate for and support our outstanding public library. We are committed to raising the standard of excellence of our library by funding programs and services beyond what is allocated in the operating budget. We also sponsor activities which bring together people who value libraries.

Multnohmah County Library

Brian Lindstrom

Brian Lindstrom’s documentary Alien BOY: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JAMES CHASSE was recently completed and will be playing in a theater or on a computer screen near you soon.

Christian Lipski

Bruce Livingston

Reading Local

Booth #806

c lombard

Barry Lopez

To read Barry Lopez is to commune with a deep thinker. His writings have frequently been compared to those of Henry David Thoreau, as he brings a depth of erudition to the text by immersing himself in his surroundings, deftly integrating his environmental and humanitarian concerns. In his nonfiction, he often examines the relationship between human culture and physical landscape. In his fiction, he frequently addresses issues of intimacy, ethics, and identity. Barry Lopez is best known as the author of Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award. Among his other nonfiction boo…

Joaquin Lopez

Joaquin Lopez is a poet, musician and songwriter; he writes in both Spanish and English. His passion also includes producing creative events: El Planeta de los Dinosaurios with Filmusik; the annual show VOZ ALTA, an evening of poetry and music created for Portland Latino Gay Pride; and Taste of Mexico, a Mexican food and culture exposition this year at the Portland Art Museum. He is also a partner in the catering company Mayahuel, featuring chef-inspired Mexican cuisine. His bread and butter is working at La Bonita located in the heart of the Alberta Arts District. As an actor, he has wo… Read more

House of Lore

Come checkout a brand new publisher with a brand new book at booth #615. We are excited to be at this coming Wordstock and plan on being around for some time to come. As a publisher and artist I find I am quite busy, but do manage to find time to paint and draw. If interested, this work can be viewed at http://www.ofpainting.com Best to you from all of us at House of Lore.

Alexander MacLeod

Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Cape Breton and raised in Windsor, Ontario. His first collection of short stories LIGHT LIFTING was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Story Award, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Prize, two Atlantic Book Awards, and went on to become a national bestseller. Alexander holds degrees from the University of Windsor, the University of Notre Dame, and McGill. He currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and teaches at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.

Pathos Literary Magazine

Booth #1004

New Oregon Arts & Letters / PLAZM magazine

Booth #712

Artslandia Magazine

MUSIC | DANCE | THEATRE. Portland's Performing Arts Annual

Granta Magazine

Booth #405

Crow Arts Manor

Booth #704

David Marin

David Marin (pronounced “marine”) is half Puerto Rican, half Irish, and all American. A media company executive by profession, he lives in California, has traveled to eleven countries, and has visited thirty-six of our fifty states. He has skydived in Arizona, water-skied on the Caribbean, and rescued olive ridley sea turtles in Costa Rica. By far the greatest adventure of his life is fatherhood.

Isaac Marion

Isaac Marion was born in northwestern Washington in 1981 and has lived in and around Seattle his whole life, working a variety of strange jobs like delivering deathbeds to hospice patients and supervising parental visits for foster-kids. He is not married, has no children, and did not go to college or win any prizes. WARM BODIES is his first novel. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/warmbodies Twitter @isaacinspace

Jodie Marion

Jodie Marion is from the Indian River region in Florida but has lived in the Northwest for the last 12 years. She mothers four wild children and teaches English and Spanish at Mt. Hood Community College. In June, she completed the Atheneum Master Writing Program at the Attic Institute in Portland. Her manuscript EYE TEETH was a finalist in the 2011 BOOM/Bateau chapbook contest; work from it appears in The New Guard Literary Review, Floating Bridge Review and VoiceCatcher. Marion was this year’s recipient of the Paula Jones Gardiner Award from Seattle’s Floating Bridge Press and is at… Read more

New Seasons Market

Brigid Marz

Molly McCloskey

Molly McCloskey was born in Philadelphia in 1964 and grew up in Oregon. In 1989, she travelled to Ireland, intending to stay a month but instead stayed twenty-two years. She is the author of two short story collections, SOLOMON’S SEAL and THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES, and a novel, PROTECTION. Her first work of nonfiction, CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN, a memoir about her brother succumbing to schizophrenia and the effects of his illness on him and on the family, was published by Penguin in the UK and Ireland in 2011. Molly started her writing career in Portland and is now a regular contributor to … Read more

Belinda McKeon

Belinda McKeon was born in Longford, Ireland in 1979. She studied literature at Trinity College, Dublin and has an MFA from Columbia University. She is an arts journalist with the Irish Times. Her plays have been produced in Dublin and New York, and her debut novel, SOLACE, was published in 2011 by Scribner. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and in Ireland.

Isla McKetta

Cathi McLain

I love to read beautiful prose, to get caught up in a story. I love to write and am passionate about learning to craft a story, whether memoir or fiction, that others might want to read.

Bitch Media

Booth #207

Hartlyn Kids Media, LLC

Booth #905 - Hartlyn Kids Media, LLC is an independent children’s book publishing company dedicated to exposing children and their parents to the diversity of cultures around the world. The name Hartlyn comes from the two locations that each of the creators is from - Hartford and Brooklyn... and we also have read that it is a name which means full and joyous! Our business inspiration stems from the Maya Angelou quote: "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each o… Read more

hilary meehan

writer of historical fiction with particular focus on the politics of sex during the American Revolution

Ellen Meeropol

Ellen Meeropol’s work explores characters at the intersection of political turmoil, ethical dilemma, and family life. Publishers Weekly gave her debut novel, HOUSE ARREST a starred review, calling it “thoughtful and tightly composed, unflinching in taking on challenging subjects and deliberating uneasy ethical conundrums.” A literary late bloomer, Meeropol left her pediatric nurse practitioner career to write and work in an independent bookstore. She holds an MFA from the Stonecoast Program, University of Southern Maine. Her short stories and essays have been published or are forth… Read more

Rahul Mehta

Rahul Mehta is the author of the short story collection QUARANTINE, portions of which are already a runaway success in India, and have appeared in New Stories from the South, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, Epoch, NOON, Fourteen Hills and Storyville. His essays have appeared most recently in the New York Times Magazine, Out Magazine, and Marie Claire India. Mehta earned his MFA from Syracuse University and is now working on a novel. Born and raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia, he now lives with his partner in Alfred, New York, and teaches at Alfred University.

Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy once wrote Ray Bradbury a letter, informing him that he “considered himself an author too.” He was ten. Since then, Meloy has gone on to be the singer and songwriter for the band the Decemberists, where he channels all of his weird ideas into weird songs. This is his first time channeling those ideas into a novel. As a kid, Carson Ellis loved exploring the woods, drawing, and nursing wounded animals back to health. As an adult, little has changed— except she is now the acclaimed illustrator of several books for children, including Lemony Snicket’s THE COMPOSER IS DE… Read more

Maile Meloy

Maile Meloy is a contributor to The New Yorker and an accomplished author of novels for adults. Meloy’s BOTH WAYS IS THE WAY I WANT IT was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2009. In a starred review, Booklist called Meloy’s A FAMILY DAUGHTER “riveting and engrossing.” THE APOTHECARY is Meloy’s children’s literature debut. Book site: www.theapothecarybook.com

Alejandra Mendez

My kids,food,cooking,family,the seasons,outdoors,indoors,new experiences.

Octaviano Merecias

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, researcher, filmmaker and community educator, Merecias has provided mentoring and guidance to youth and families in Mexico and the United States. His poetry has appeared in Prism, El Tecolote and La bloga. Mr. Merecias has taught bilingual poetry at Ethos Music Center, Centro Cultural of Washington County, en el barrio… Read more

Mike Merrill

Katie Merritt

Andy Mingo

Andy Mingo is Portland-based director/producer of six shorts and one feature length film, THE ICONOGRAPHER. He gained recognition when several of his films were included at national film festivals and screenings such as The Northwest Film & Video Festival, the PDX Film Festival, the Longbaugh Film Festival and Northwest Tracking- Journal of Short Film V.11. He is currently in production on a film adapted from Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk‘s recent story “Romance.“

Alethea Mock

Portland Monthly

Quenby Moone

Ben Moorad

Ben Moorad is a cofounder of Write Around Portland, a nonprofit that has helped over 3000 adults and youth use the power of writing to decrease their social isolation and change their lives. He’s a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and is currently at work on a creative nonfiction manuscript called THE ENVELOPE OF SUICIDES.

Usborne Books and More

Booth #809

Alberto Moreno

Alberto Moreno is a member of Los Porteños, Portland-area Latino writers group.

Edward Morris

Edward Morris is a 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling Award. He has lived in Portland eleven years, and in that time has sold over eighty stories and ten books worldwide. Morris co-runs a writing workshop, the Willamette Valley Sorcerers, through the live-work gallery Secret Hideout Studio, with local artist Serena Blossom Appel, his partner of seven years.

John Morrison

John Morrison earned his MFA from the University of Alabama and received the 2003 C. Hamilton Bailey Poetry Fellowship from Literary Arts. His book, HEAVEN OF THE MOMENT, won the 2006 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition and was a finalist for the 2008 Oregon Book Award in poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous national literary journals, including the Cimarron Review, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Poet Lore. He has taught poetry at the University of Alabama, Washington State University, Vancouver, and the Attic Institute in Portland.

Sudo Nym ~ Poet in Motion

Have a sense of wonder. Stay inspired. Love your work. Believe in yourself and ... Dream With Abandon! These are the things that keep me imaginative and I wouldn't want it any other way. I transfer thoughts within my head As script on paper in penciled lead And scribe the inklings of my heart Which thus become the poet's art Sudo Nym ~ Poet in Motion

Peter Mountford

Peter Mountford’s first novel, A YOUNG MAN’S GUIDE TO LATE CAPITALISM, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2011. His short fiction has recently appeared in Best New American Voices 2008, Conjunctions, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Normal School, and Boston Review. Winner of grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the city of Seattle, he is a two-time fellow of Yaddo and has won a variety of other awards and honors. Twitter: @petermountford

Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee is the author of eight novels, most recently, MISS NEW INDIA, DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS and THE TREE BRIDE; two collections of short stories, DARKNESS and THE MIDDLEMAN & OTHER STORIES; and the co-author, with Clark Blaise, of two books of nonfiction, DAYS AND NIGHTS IN CALCUTTA and THE SORROW AND THE TERROR: THE HAUNTING LEGACY OF THE AIR INDIA TRAGEDY; and author of numerous essays on immigration and American culture. She is the first naturalized US citizen to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best fiction. She has been a professor of English at the Unive… Read more

Manuel Muñoz

Manuel Muñoz is the author of the novel WHAT YOU SEE IN THE DARK, and two collections of short stories, THE FAITH HEALER OF OLIVE AVENUE and ZIGZAGGER. Manuel was a recipient of a a 2009 PEN/O Henry prize, a 2008 Whiting Writers Award, a Constance Saltonstall Foundation Individual Artist’s Grant for fiction, a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and was a finalist for the 2007 Frank O’Connor International Short Story prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Rush Hour, Swink, Epoch, Glimmer Train, Edinburgh … Read more

Danielle Myers

Scott Nadelson

Scott Nadelson is the author of three story collections: AFTERMATH (2011); THE CANTOR’S DAUGHTER (2006), recipient of the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Fiction Prize for Emerging Jewish Writers and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize; and SAVING STANLEY: THE BRICKMAN STORIES (2004), winner of the Oregon Book Award for Short Fiction and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. He teaches creative writing at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon.

Blake Nelson

Blake Nelson grew up in Portland and attended Wesleyan University. He began his career writing short humor pieces that explored the slacker west coast lifestyle for Details magazine in the mid-nineties.His first novel GIRL was excerpted in Sassy Magazine and has since been published in eight foreign countries and made into a feature film. The sequel DREAM SCHOOL is forthcoming in November 2011. Nelson’s novel PARANOID PARK was made into a film of the same name by Gus Van Sant. The book won the prestigious Grinzane Literary award in Italy. The film won a special 60th Anniversary prize… Read more

Greg Netzer

Executive Director at Wordstock: Portland's Literary Festival

Evan Nichols

Just a typical writer/webcomic artist who lives in Portland with two wooden cats.

R.L. Nielsen

Passionate about the need for sleep. Absolute truth exists. Freedom of choice. Passionate about God, families, most sports, art I like, music I like. Passionate about writing being worth a crap--of some significant value to the individual audience.

Poetry Northwest

Jessica O'Dwyer

Jessica O'Dwyer is the author of "Mamalita: An Adoption Memoir". Publishers Weekly called the book "harrowing, moving, and deftly handled".

Emma Oliver

Emma Oliver is from Guadalajara, Mexico. Her fiction has been published in English and Spanish. She is a member of Los Porteños.

Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels BEFORE I FALL and DELIRIUM. LIESL & PO is her third book and her first for younger readers. A graduate of the University of Chicago and MFA Program at NYU, Oliver lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Martin Olson

Martin Olson is a comedy writer, composer and author living in Hollywood and Boston. His encyclopedic satire ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HELL was published by Feral House (July 2011) and the film rights were sold to Warner Bros. Olson has received an Emmy nomination and an Ace Award for television writing and two Emmy nominations for song writing. He collaborated with the late science fiction master Robert Sheckley on two television series, a live-action video game and the upcoming novel ON THE GOOD SHIP MANDELBROT. Websites: feralhouse.com/encyclopaedia-of-hell Facebook: www.facebook.com/encyclo… Read more

Erik Olson

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of four previous novels, including The English Patient. His new novel is The Cat's Table.

Wild Ones

Alyson Osborn

Lynn Otto

I'm and MFA poetry student at Portland State University.

Pierre Ouellette

Pierre Ouellette (aka Pierre Davis) first stepped into the creative world at age 13 as a lead guitarist for numerous bands in the Pacific Northwest, including the nationally known Paul Revere and the Raiders. To support his music habit, he became a freelance writer and eventually co-founded KVO, an advertising agency specializing in high technology, serving as its creative director. During this period, he wrote two novels, THE DEUS MACHINE and THE THIRD PANDEMIC. His third novel, A BREED APART, written as Pierre Davis, was published in 2009 to highly favorable reviews. His second Pierre … Read more

Chester Pane

Art.

Company Chesterpane.com
Location Portland, Oregon

Julie Paschkis

Julie Paschkis is a painter and an award winning illustrator of more than 15 books for children. These picture books include folk tales, poetry, and biography. She has also been exhibiting her paintings for 20 years. In those years she has experimented with different media and techniques all connected by a thread of underlying story and surface beauty. Paschkis recently illustrated the book PABLO NERUDA: POET OF THE PEOPLE by Monica Brown. For this book she learned Spanish in order to read Neruda’s poems in their original language, and in order to illustrate the book with words as well… Read more

Enrique Patlan

Enrique Patlan is a member of of Los Porteños, the Portland-area Latino writers group.

Emma Pattee

Bradley Paul

Jane Pellicciotto

Company Allegro Design
Location Portland, Oregon

ALL Publications & The Mighty Pen

Booth #612

Peter Pereira

Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle, and was a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Journal of the American Medical Association and other magazines, and have been anthologized in 180 MORE: EXTRAORDINARY POEMS FOR EVERYDAY and the 2007 BEST AMERICAN POETRY. They have also been featured online at Verse Daily and Poetry Daily, as well as on National Public Radio’s The Writer’s Almanac. His books include WHAT’S WRITTEN ON THE BODY (Copper Canyon 2007), which was a finalis… Read more

Paulann Petersen

Oregon’s sixth Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen, has five full-length books of poetry: THE WILD AWAKE, BLOOD-SILK, A BRIDGE OF NARROW ESCAPE, KINDLE and THE VOLUPTUARY (Lost Horse Press 2010). A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of the 2006 Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts, she serves on the board of Friends of William Stafford, organizing the January Stafford Birthday Events.

Christopher Phillips

Christopher Phillips, a foremost specialist in the Socratic Method. CONSITUTION CAFÉ: JEFFERSON’S BREW FOR A TRUE REVOLUTION is Phillips’s manifesto for modern day politics. Phillips is founder and Executive Director of the Democracy Café and the Society for Philosophical Inquiry. In addition to being a civic activist and bestselling author, Phillips is also an educator. He holds a PhD in communications and masters degrees in the humanities, natural sciences, and education. Phillips lives with his wife and daughter in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Holly-Marie St. Pierre

<3 Create Love! <3 http://www.soulmatesecretexperiment.blogspot.com/ Even though I love to write, writing my Bio is hard! I'll cheat a little and include the results from my Myers-Briggs test. I'm an ENFP. E-Extraversion N-Intuition F-Feeling P-Perceiving ENFPs are enthusiastic, insightful, innovative, versatile, and tireless in pursuit of new possibilities. The following descriptors generally describe ENFPs: creative, curious, energetic, enthusiastic, expressive, friendly, imaginative, independent, original, restless, spontaneouos, and versatile.

Company Anywhere I want to be
Location Vancouver, Washington

Dana Plautz

Dana Plautz Dana Plautz is co-creator & co-president of the award-winning children’s website MrsP.com. The website endeavors to expose young people to great books and stories through a celebrity storyteller and to spark their imaginations and creativity with online games and writing contests. She began her career working for producer Norman Lear, creating new markets for entertainment properties. She later worked as a worldwide marketing executive for Hanna-Barbera Studios. She also has a strong philanthropic, community and government board service record, with a special interest in s… Read more

Duane Poncy

Scott Poole

Scott Poole is the house poet for Live Wire!, a weekly radio variety show on Oregon Public Broadcasting that airs throughout the Pacific Northwest and is currently expanding to public broadcasting radio stations across the U.S. in such cities as Boston and Cleveland. He is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent is The Sliding Glass Door (2011, Colonus House Publishing) The official release for the Sliding Glass Door is at Wordstock on October 8th. The audiobook of The Sliding Glass Door recorded by Scott at the Cherry Street Studios in Spokane will be released in the spring of 2…

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