Join us for an AWP OFFSITE READING IN DOWNTOWN PORTLAND. We will be
hosting an unforgettable lineup of readers including, Garth Greenwell,
Carmen Maria Machado, Terese Mailhort, Alexander Chee, and Lidia
Yuknavitch.
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the
British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the
National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards,
including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize,
and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review
Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty
publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen
languages. A new book of fiction, Cleanness, is forthcoming from FSG
in early 2020.
Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and
Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus
Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the
World Fantasy Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham
Prize for Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library
Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book
Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the New York Times
listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard,"
one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read
and write fiction in the 21st century."
Terese Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. She graduated with an MFA
from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She served as Saturday
Editor at The Rumpus and was a columnist at Indian Country Today. Her
writing appears in West Branch, Guernica, Pacific Standard, Elle, and
elsewhere. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Heart
Berries: A Memoir. She serves as faculty at the Institute of American
Indian Arts and she's a Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue
University.
Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen
of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An
Autobiographical Novel, all from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is a
contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large
at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times
Book Review, T Magazine, Tin House, Slate, and Guernica, among
others.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel The Book of Joan and the
National Bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children, winner of the
2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the
Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, and a critical book
on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). Her widely
acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN
Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award
and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. A book based on her recent
TED Talk, The Misfit's Manifesto, was released October 2017.
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