Poetry & Prose

The Fall 2019 Hodgepodge reading even will be hosted by Tuna Cole. Author/Reader Bios: Tuna Cole: After a decade of teaching English in Japan, in 1995 Tuna and his Japanese wife moved to Portland where he worked odd jobs and began his MA in (applied) linguistics, completing in Spring 2005. Since then, he has worked as an English tutor at PCC while writing four books: Ragnarok, A Plausible Future (2009); Voyage of the Yellow Submarine, a multi-voice chronicle of life in a commune (2012); Shards, a life in pieces (2014); and Demons Be Gone, A Romance (2017). Currently, Tuna is enmeshed in his fifth book, a gonzo memoir, a blow-by-blow account of Tuna’s various incarnations. Allisa Cherry was raised in the rural religious community of…