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Sean Davis and Matthew Robinson
November 19, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeSean Davis is the author of The Wax Bullet War and a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran. He won the Legionnaire of the Year Award from the American Legion in 2015, and the Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader Human Rights Award in 2016. His stories, essays, and articles have appeared in the Ted Talk book The Misfit’s Manifesto (Simon and Schuster), the anthology City of Weird (Forest Avenue Press), Sixty Minutes, Story Corps, Flaunt Magazine, The Big Smoke, Human the movie, and elsewhere.
Matthew Robinson is the author of The Horse Latitudes. He holds an MFA from Portland State University and is the 2016 recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship for Fiction. His writing has appeared in Propeller, Shirley, O-Dark Thirty, Nailed, Gobshite Quarterly, Split Lip, Clackamas Literary Review, and elsewhere. Matthew is co-editor of the online literary journal The Gravity of the Thing. He lives, writes, and teaches in Portland, Oregon.
Davis and Robinson are contributors to the new literary anthology The Jesus He Deserved, forthcoming December 14.
Monday, November 19 at 6:30pm
Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238