Wordstock Festival 2011

Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review/ Copper Canyon Press, 2008). The recipient of The Honickman First Book Prize, The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College, and the 2009 Oregon Book Award from Literary Arts of Oregon. His poems have appeared in Tin House Magazine, McSweeny’s, Ploughshares, The Believer, BOMB online, and The New Yorker among others. W.W. Norton & Co. will...
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I’ve published fiction in Carolina Quarterly, Georgia State Review, Main Street Rag, Isotope, Green Mountains Review, Night Train and others. I am an NEA awardee with work performed at Red Cat at Disney Hall and reviews in the LA Times and the New York Times. I was most recently in the Manhattan Shakespeare Projects New Playwright Festival. My nonfiction has been nominated for a Pushcart and I was a nonfiction runner-up at Writers@Work. My fellowships include Yaddo, Centrum, Squaw Valley...
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Cheryl Strayed is the author of the forthcoming memoir WILD and the novel TORCH, a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books of the year by writers from the Pacific Northwest. Strayed’s personal essays have appeared in more than a dozen magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Allure, Self, Brain, Child, The Rumpus, and The Sun. She’s won a Pushcart Prize and her essays have twice been...
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Wendy Willis is a Portland poet, mother and non-profit director. Her work appears in a variety of national and regional publications.