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Local Author Reading | The Jesus He Deserved
February 16, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeJoin us for a Local Author Reading of The Jesus He Deserved with Sean Davis, Matthew Robinson, and Jacob Meeks. Three Oregon authors and combat veterans, Sean Davis, Matthew Robinson and Jacob Meeks, drawing on their experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Africa and the Middle East, offer anatomies of war and of peace.
The book can ordered before the reading by emailing: info@booksaroundthecorner.com. The cost of the book is $14 and can be paid at the time of pickup.
Sean Davis is the author of The Wax Bullet War, a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran, and the winner of the Legionnaire of the Year Award from the American Legion in 2015 and the recipient of the Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader, Human Rights award for 2016. His stories, essays, and articles have appeared in the the Ted Talk Book The Misfit’s Manifesto (Simon and Schuster), Forest Avenue Press anthology City of Weird, Sixty Minutes, Story Corps, Flaunt Magazine, The Big Smoke, Human the movie, and much more.
Matthew Robinson is the author of the novel The Horse Latitudes (an Oregon Book Award finalist), holds an MFA in Fiction from Portland State University, is co-editor of the online literary journal The Gravity of the Thing, and is an Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient. He lives, writes, and teaches in Portland, Oregon.
Jacob Meeks is a veteran, an aid worker, a storyteller and a leader. He’s worked from 2009 to present as a humanitarian aid worker specializing in operations and security. He’s done humanitarian work in South Sudan, Guatemala, Libya, Jordan, Lebanon, and is recently returning from a deployment in Nigeria. In the past, he deployed with the Army, 82nd Airborne to Kosovo and Afghanistan. He is currently working on his writing career with his first stories published in War Stories (2017) and The Jesus He Deserved.