Ramiza Shamoun Koya has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Columbia Review, Lumina, Washington Square Review, and Mutha Magazine. She has been a fellow at both MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Her father was born in Fiji, her mother in Texas, and she was …
If Miguel de Cervantes & Lewis Carroll collaborated, this would be the book. A beautifully written 16th-century fantasy that, at its core, seems all too reminiscent of today’s current atmosphere. It’s as enchanting as it is hilarious. —Stacy, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA. . . This is a tough one to describe, because as soon as …
To celebrate the official launch of Stevan Allred’s A Simplified Map of the Real World, Portland author Robin Cody posed a few questions (and made some insightful comments). Pull up a chair, maybe even pour yourself a beer, and enjoy these two as they chat about points of view, literature, nature, and where Stevan got …
“I’m really, really not just picking this because I have an essay in the collection. Really. This sweet, little book is wonderfully indie and stuffed full of Oregon authors. A collection of essays and interviews with such local lit figures as Scott Sparling, Lauren Kessler, and Yuvi Zalkow, Brave on the Page is not only about craft …
When I was first starting to write fiction, I read a piece by William Styron about the difficulties of beginning a story. What you needed most, he said, was a strong sense of place. Something that would ground you through all the uncertainties that were sure to follow. You might not know what, but you …
