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Portland Review Launch
May 16, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeEach year Portland Review hosts a spring reading in celebration of student editors who are graduating and the incoming cohort of new editors. This reading will feature alumnus and current students of the PSU Creative Writing MFA, as well as contributors featured in the 2019 issue Unchartable.
Featuring:
Ed Skoog
Margot Kahn Case
Genevieve Hudson
A.M. Rosales
Genevieve Hudson is the author of the forthcoming novel Boys of Alabama (W.W. Norton/Liveright), the memoir-hybrid A Little in Love with Everyone (Fiction Advocate, 2018), and the story collection Pretend We Live Here (Future Tense Books, 2018), which is a 2019 LAMBDA Literary Award finalist. Her writing has been published in Catapult, McSweeney’s, Hobart, Tin House online, Joyland, No Tokens, Bitch, The Rumpus, and other places. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Program and artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Caldera Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center.
Ed Skoog is the author of Run the Red Lights. His other collections of poetry include the chapbooks Toolkit (1995) and Field Recording (2003) and the full-length volumes Mister Skylight (2009) and Rough Day (2013).
Margot Kahn is the author of the biography Horses That Buck (University of Oklahoma Press) and co-editor of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice anthology This Is the Place (Seal Press). Her work has appeared in Lenny Letter, The Rumpus, Tablet, River Teeth, Los Angeles Review, Crab Creek Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle.
A.M. Rosales is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and translator originally from Cochabamba, Bolivia and presently based out of Portland, Oregon. They hold a degree from George Mason University and their favorite rodent is the capybara. A collaborating artist with the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), a Pride Foundation Scholar, a Teacher Apprentice at Writers-In-The-Schools, and an MFA Fiction Candidate at Portland State University, they draw on the liminality at the intersection of immigrant and transgender experiences to create visual, written, and performed works of art.
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