Join us for an exciting reading event featuring Erica Berry, Caitlin Scarano, Becky Mandelbaum, and Elizabeth Weinberg.

RSVP not required, but much appreciated!

Erica Berry is a writer based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she was a College of Liberal Arts Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The Yale Review, Outside Magazine, Catapult, The Atlantic, Guernica, and elsewhere. Winner of the Steinberg Essay Prize and the Kurt Brown Prize in Nonfiction, she has received fellowships and funding from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Tin House, the Ucross Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. A former Writer-in-Residence with the National Writers Series in Traverse City, Michigan, she is currently a Writer-in-the-Schools with Literary Arts in Portland. Wolfish is her first book.

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Becky Mandelbaum is the author of THE BRIGHT SIDE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS, an Indie Next pick, and BAD KANSAS, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the High Plains Book Award for First Book, and was a Kansas Notable Book.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker Daily Shouts, One Story, The Sun, The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Necessary Fiction, Hobart, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and has been featured on Medium. Her work has received support from Writing by Writers, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Lighthouse Works. She was a finalist for the 2019 Disquiet Literary Prize in Fiction, the 2020 and 2022 Missouri Review Editor’s Prize in Fiction, the 2020 Nelson Algren Award, and the 2022 Joyland Open Border Fiction Prize.

Originally from Kansas, she currently lives in Bellingham, Washington.

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Elizabeth Weinberg is the author of Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together, which reimagines an ecological ethos that is queer, anti-racist. and feminist. She s

erved as the writer, editor, and social media coordinator for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries for five years, and managed TreePeople’s social media presence. Her science and creative writing has appeared in Identity Theory, The Rumpus, the Toast, American Wild, Maui Now, SEVENSEAS Magazine, Scuba Diver Life, PANK Magazine, and other publications.

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Originally from Southside Virginia, Caitlin Scarano is a writer based in Bellingham, Washington. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and an MA from Bowling Green State University.

Her second full length collection of poems, The Necessity of Wildfire, was selected by Ada Limón as the winner of the Wren Poetry Prize and won a 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award.

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