Wordstock Festival 2011

Kerry Cohen is the author of the memoirs LOOSE GIRL: A MEMOIR OF PROMISCUITY and SEEING EZRA: A MOTHER’S STORY OF AUTISM, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, AND THE MEANING OF NORMAL; as well as DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS: BREAKING THE SILENCE ON TEENAGE GIRLS AND PROMISCUITY; and three young adult novels, EASY, THE GOOD GIRL, and IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME. Her essays have been featured in the New York Times‘ “Modern Love“ series, the Washington Post, Brevity, Literary Mama and many other journals...
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Lynn Connor’s THE STONES AND THE POET grew out of her childhood curiosity about Asia and the limited creative nonfiction available for children.

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.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the memoir THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER (Hawthorne Books), three books of short fictions including HER OTHER MOUTHS, LIBERTY’S EXCESS AND REAL TO REEL (FC2), and a forthcoming novel, DORA: A HEAD CASE (Hawthorne Books). She has twice been a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and has received prizes from Poets and Writers, Literary Arts Inc. and the Oregon Arts Commission. Her work has appeared in print and online journals such as Ms., The Iowa Review...
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