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"All of Me" Reading at Daedalus Books / Portland

  • daedalus books 2074 Northwest Flanders Street Portland, OR, 97209 United States (map)

Join "All of Me" editor Dani Burlison and Portland writers Karleigh Frisbie Brogan and Amanda Blix--along with live music from feminist ukulele duo Sorry Not Sorry-- for a night of anger and laughs...

* Amanda Blix is an artist, mother and lover of the earth. Her work has appeared in Hip Mama, Vision Quest, Rad Dad, the New York Times and 2 anthologies by the Sound Grounds Wrecking Crew. She has self-published 11 comic book zines and is the illustrator and collaborator of the zine series Which is Witch. She lives in Portland with her family and is about to finish her final year of mystery school (if she doesn't drop out first).

* Dani Burlison is the creator and editor of “All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body” (PM Press), “Some Places Worth Leaving: Short Stories” (Tolsun Books) and “Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories,” an essay collection based on her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review, and a regular contributor at Chicago Tribune, KQED Arts, The Rumpus, and Made Local Magazine. Her writing can also be found at Ms. Magazine, Yes! Magazine, Earth Island Journal, WIRED, Utne, Hip Mama Magazine, Rad Dad, The Writer Magazine, Portland Review, Shareable, Tahoma Literary Review, and more. Her writing also appears in several anthologies. She lives, teaches, and writes in Santa Rosa, California.

* Karleigh Frisbie Brogan holds an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University, where she also has taught creative writing. She is a Santa Rosa, California native who lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and plant-babies. Her work appears in Lana Turner, NAILED, Water-Stone Review, Zaum, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a memoir that explores addiction, ecology, and feminism.

Earlier Event: November 8
Portland Lit Crawl!