Amanda Coplin was born in Wenatchee, Washington. She received her BA from the University of Oregon and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. A recipient of residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Omi International Arts Center at Ledig House in Ghent, New York, she lives in Portland, Oregon. …
Earlier this week the winners of the 2012 Oregon Book Awards were announced at Portland’s Gerding Theater at the annual ceremony hosted by award sponsor Literary Arts. This year’s special presenter was Pulitzer prize and National Book Award winner Timothy Egan. Three of this year’s winners were prominently featured on NW Book Lovers in the past …
Carl Adamshick, a poet in Portland, won the prestigous Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his first book, Curses and Wishes, which was published earlier this year. His poems are spare, quietly intense, and quite moving, perhaps in part because they lack bombast. In a way his work resembles Raymond Carver’s …
