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| Featuring readings by
Tsunami Books Thursday, June 8, 2006 at 7:30pm |
 Kate Gray's sunrises are full of golden retrievers and writing. Kate Gray's poems and stories chronicle her path on many rivers, some through Portland, Oregon where she's lived for 20 years. Her poems and stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Seattle Review, Mid American Review, Calyx, and more. She is an editor of Clackamas Literary Review. |
 Henry Alley is a Professor Emeritus of Literature in the Honors College at the University of Oregon. He has three published novels: Through Glass, The Lattice, and Umbrella of Glass. He is also author of the scholarly study, The Quest of Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot, from University of Delaware Press. His stories have appeared over the part thirty years in such journals as Seattle Review, Cimarron Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, and Gertrude. He has finished a novel on the Measure Nine crisis in Oregon, Precincts of Light, a collection of short fiction, The Sojourners, and an extensive novel, At Large, set in 1968 and 2001, on both the East and West coasts. |
 Elizabeth Simson's poems have appeared in over two dozen literary journals and anthologies, including Atlanta Review, Kalliope, Comstock Review, Gertrude, and Earth's Daughters. Her first chapbook, Sea Change, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Elizabeth's poems received First and Second place awards in the Oregon State Poetry Association's Spring 2006 contest. A lesbian, feminist, and first-generation German-American, Elizabeth writes to make sense of the world and her place in it. |