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M.F. McAuliffe: I’m Afraid of Americans

June 8, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Free
View Venue Website, 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR 97030 + Google Map

The stories of I’m Afraid of Americans are set in a high school in Los Angeles County in the 1980s. They show students, teachers and support staff busy with daily details, but also living in the history, geography, and dislocations of their time.

Join us for an reading and signing with M. F. McAuliffe is an Australian writer who has lived in Portland since 1992. She is co-author of the poetry collection Fighting Monsters (Melbourne, 1998) and of the limited edition artist’s book Golems Waiting Redux, which documents the destruction of Portland sculptor Daniel Duford’s experimental installation in downtown Portland in 2002. She has also contributed to The Clarion Awards, Overland, Australian Short Stories, The Adelaide Review, Poezija (Zagreb), and Prairie Schooner. She is also the author of Seattle, a novella (2015), The Crucifixes and Other Friday Poems (2017).

In 2002 she co-founded Portland-based, multi-lingual Gobshite Quarterly with R. V. Branham; in 2008 they co-founded Reprobate / GobQ Books. She continues at both imprints as commissioning / contributing editor.

Venue

Books Around the Corner
40 NW 2nd Street
Gresham, OR 97030
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Phone
503-489-8804
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Books Around the Corner
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