Faculty Reading

November 11, 2009

Wednesday, 7:30 pm
Villa Maria, Marylhurst University
Free & open to the public.

Poet and Fiction Writers read from their Award-winning works

Poet Ger Killeen and fiction writers Traci Schatz and Marian Pierce will read. The event celebrates the publication of Ger’s new book of poems, Blood Orbits (Parlor Press) and Marian and Traci’s awards in the Wordstock Fiction Contest. Marian’s award-winning story "The Grocery Store Cart" was published in the October issue of Portland Monthly.

GER KILLEEN

Ger teaches in the Department of English Literature and Writing at Marylhurst. His special interests are postmodern poetry, Celtic literature, the poetry of mysticism, and critical theory. He is the author of several books, including A STONE THAT WILL LEAP OVER THE WAVES (Trask House, 1999), A WREN (Bluestem Press, winner of the Bluestem Award for Poetry), and SIGNS FOLLOWING (Parlor Press, 2005). His work also appears in several anthologies, including From Here We Speak (Oregon State University Press), AMERICAN POETRY: THE NEXT GENERATION (Carnegie-Mellon University Press), and THE GERTRUDE STEIN AWARDS 2006 (Green Integer).

MARIAN PIERCE

Marian, a member of the English Literature and Writing faculty at Marylhurst, has worked for Japan's National Public radio, taught yoga in Tokyo, and traveled all over India by bus and train. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and often writes stories based on people she has met on her travels. You can read her short story about a favorite neighbor in Tokyo, Mrs. Nakamura, by clicking here: http://mississippireview.com/2005/Vol11No3-Jul05/1103-070105-Pierce.html. Other stories have appeared in GQ, STORY, Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997, Confrontation, and Puerto del Sol.

TRACI SCHATZ

Traci is a writer and artist living in Portland with her partner and their small petting zoo of animals. She spends her time volunteering, leading special interest groups and discovering new ways to avoid writing. Look for her poetry in the VoiceCatcher4 anthology. Traci received her MBA from Marylhurst University.