Oakland poet Hollie Hardy joins Portland writers Lizzy Acker, Maria DeLorenzo, and Martha Grover for an evening of sharp poetry, wicked prose, and cheap margaritas. 

Monday, October 6, 2014 
7PM

The Waypost
3120 N Williams Ave 
Portland, OR


BIOS

LIZZY ACKER's work has been published in The Rumpus, Nano Fiction, We Who Are About To Die,sPARKLE & bLINK, PolicyMic and elsewhere. She was a blogger for KQED Arts and the co-creator and former co-editor and writer for KQED Pop and is currently a co-editor and writer for The Tusk. She was the co-creator/curator, with Amira Pierce, of the popular San Francisco reading series Funny/Sexy/Sad and she has read with Bang Out,RADAR, Quiet Lightening and others. Her first book, Monster Party, was released in December of 2010 by Small Desk Press.

She was born in Oregon, lived in San Francisco for almost 8 years and then moved back to Oregon, just like everyone always knew she would.

MARIA DELORENZO is a writer, editor, and pretend detective. She works in a big tall building in downtown Portland doing things on computers (for money). She is working on a futuristic coming-of-age novel which aims to combine nostalgia for the 80’s and the romance of Judy Blume paperbacks, called “The Margarets.” We will see if this novel ever comes of age. She has written many things published in her journal and inside her computer and consumed by a select few. She sometimes does stand-up comedy in her kitchen with no pants on.

MARTHA GROVER was raised in Corbett Oregon with her six siblings. She is the author of the memoir One More for the People and has been publishing her zine, Somnambulist for ten years. 

martha grover somnambulistzine.com po box 14871 portland oregon 97293


HOLLIE HARDY is the author of How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014) available now at: https://www.createspace.com/4836108. 

She holds an MFA in Poetry and teaches writing classes at San Francisco State and Berkeley City College. An active participant in the Bay Area literary scene, Hardy is co-host of Saturday Night Special, venue coordinator for Oakland’s Beast Crawl Literary Festival, and curator of Litquake's Flight of Poets. Her work has appeared in lots of journals you've probably never heard of. Her website is www.holliehardy.com