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Indy BOOK TOUR Reading featuring: Janice Lee: Author of Daughter, Writer, Artist, Editor of [out of nothing], Designer, Curator. Leon Baham: Author of Ponyboy and Sigh: A Word Problem. Local Portland guest: Where: When: Who: Anna Joy Springer is a prose writer and visual artist who makes grotesques – creating hybrid texts that combine sacred and profane elements to evoke intensely embodied conceptualemotional experiences in readers. Formerly a singer in the Bay Area bands, Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow, Anna Joy has toured the United States and Europe being a wild feminist punk performer, and also toured with the all-women spoken word extravaganza, Sister Spit. She is author of the illustrated novella, The Birdwisher (Birds of Lace). She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and is now Associate Professor of Literature at University of California at San Diego, where she truly loves teaching courses in Experimental Writing, Graphic Texts, and Postmodern Feminist Literatures. Janice Lee is a writer, artist, editor, designer, curator. She has been published in numerous journals, including antennae,Everyday Genius, Action Yes, elimae, & Black Warrior Review, and is the author of two highly acclaimed novels: KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Publishing, 2010): a multidisciplinary exploration of cyborgs, brains, and the stakes of consciousness; and DAUGHTER (Jaded Ibis Press, 2011). She is currently Co-Editor of the online journal [out of nothing], Co-Founder of the interdisciplinary arts organization Strophe, & Reviews Editor at HTMLGIANT. Most recently, she was selected by John D’Agata as the Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Grand Prize winner. “Janice Lee is a genius.†– Eileen Myles, author of Inferno (a poet’s novel) “Daughter is quantum. There is a girl, there is an octopus, there is language… No other book ever written has entered my body and been so physically pure. There is not distance between the Leon Baham is from the Inland Empire. He now lives in Seattle. He is currently working on his first Portland Guest Cooper Lee Bombardier is a visual artist and writer from the South Shore of Boston. He has been a construction worker, a cook, a carpenter, a union stagehand, a welder, a shop steward, a dishwasher, a truckdriver, and a housepainter, among other things; now he is busy pursuing both an MS in Writing/Book Publishing and an MFA in Creative Writing/Nonfiction at Portland State. His writing appears in many periodicals including Original Plumbing, Suspect Thoughts, Unshod Quills, Pathos, Lambda Literary Review, The Rearguard, OUT Magazine, Cavalcade Literary Journal, Queerocracy, and his essay on trans identity and the world of competitive facial hair is coming out soon on The Rumpus. His work appears in four anthologies, including the forthcoming book Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road, from City Lights Books. A veteran of the original Sister Spit tours, he has performed all over the country. He was a Lambda Literary Foundation Fellowship in 2011. Cooper is currently based in beautiful Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his handsome old one-eyed dog and the threat of never-ending rain. “Awesome and charming…spoken word genius†– The Santa Fe Reporter |