Gertrude Press author Henry Alley and Gertrude contributor Austin Gray will read as part of the Third Saturdays Literary Readings Series at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette St, Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, June 20th from 5:00-7:00 p.m. 

Henry Alley is a Professor Emeritus of Literature in the Honors College at the University of Oregon. He is the author of three novels, and his chapbook Leonardo and I won the Gertrude Press 2006 Fiction Chapbook Award.

Born of an engineer and a botanist, Austin Gray counsels people who want to stop drinking and taking drugs. Austin’s work has appeared in Gertrude, Envoi, and the Willamette Week.

Judith Skillman reports that she is the winner of Adagio Verse Quarterly's First Annual Chapbook contest. Her web site is http:// www.judithskillman.com.

Michael Angelo Tata's first critical edition, "Andy Warhol: Sublime Superficiality," comes out on Intertheory this Spring. He also an essay in the compilation "The Globetrotting Shopaholic" called "Shopping, Dropping, Never Stopping: One Fashion Memoir." His web site is: http://www.MichaelAngeloTata.com.

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán was recently published in Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought and Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab American Poetry. He will be graduating this year from Michigan State University with his Ph.D. in American Studies.

Maureen Owens has two poems in forthcoming publications. "Carlos y Norma" will appear in "Beyond Forgetting, Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease" edited by Holly Hughs with a forward by Tess Gallagher, published by Kent State University Press. "Disconnect" will appear in "Best Lesbian Poetry 2008" copublished by A Midsummer Night's Press and Lethe Press.

Bonnie J. Morris is glad to announce that she has a new book coming out from Indiana University Press. It's called REVENGE OF THE WOMEN'S STUDIES PROFESSOR, a memoir about teaching in an often homophobic climate. I'm also working as a judge for the Lambda Literary Awards and preparing a children's book about size acceptance called BIG AND STRONG...I BELONG!

Christopher Hennessy has a new blog at areyououtsidethelines.blogspot.com.

Mary Harpin is currently working as a freelance writer in Minneapolis. She will soon be traveling to Western Australia for a writing residency. She has a poem at: http://www.toddbosspoet.com/Flurry/Flurry.html.