Spare Room reading: Lindsey Boldt, Sara Jaffe, & Steve Orth

Lindsey Boldt‘s most recent publications include: Some Ennui (Portable Press @ Yo Yo Labs, 2019), <<(( ))>> (Couch Press, 2016), and Overboard (Publication Studio Portland, 2012). Her poems, essays, and stories have been published by Wolfman New Life Quarterly, Art Practical, The Drunken Boat, and The Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet. With Steve Orth, she co-wrote and produced the plays “Dating by Consensus,” “Escape from Century Hills,” and “The Reading.” She lives in Olympia, Washington on Squaxin and Nisqually land.

Sara Jaffe is a writer living in Portland, OR. Her first novel, Dryland, was published by Tin House Books in September 2015. Her short fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared or are upcoming in publications including Catapult, Fence, BOMB, NOON, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She co-edited The Art of Touring (Yeti, 2009), an anthology of writing and visual art by musicians, drawing on her experience as guitarist for post-punk band Erase Errata. She is also co-founding editor of New Herring Press, a publisher of prose chapbooks. www.sarajaffewriter.com

Steve Orth is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright. His work usually involves someone who works retail or service jobs being very confused as to how they ended up working in retail or service jobs. Steve has primarily worked retail or service jobs since the mid 1990’s. His first full length book, The Life And Times Of Steve Orth will be published by Dogpark Collective in late 2019.