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Amanda Bullock

Literary Arts
Director of Public Programs
Portland, OR
Websiteliterary-arts.org
Director of the Portland Book Festival and Portland Arts & Lectures.
Saturday, April 13
 

10:00am PDT

Fiction: Contemporary Concerns - Conversation 1081 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 124, Signing Area 4Edan Lepucki • Caeli Wolfson Widger • Susan Choi • John Wray It Takes Two: Co-Authoring Middle Grade Fiction - Conversation 1011 - REQUIRES TICKET Hoffman Hall, Signing Area 1Holly Goldberg Sloan • Emily Chenoweth • Johnny Marciano • Rachel Renée Russell • Nikki Russell

10:30am PDT

Glow Up: Refreshed Favorites for Young Adults YA Stage Presented by HS Insider, Signing Area 9Sarah Enni • Elana K. Arnold • Alexa Donne • Jen Wang • Cat Winters Laurie Halse Anderson, Author of "Shout," and Roxane Gay, Editor of "Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture," in Conversation with Robin Abcarian - Conversation 1041 - REQUIRES TICKET Bovard Auditorium, Signing Area 3Robin Abcarian • Laurie Halse Anderson • Roxane Gay Susan Orlean, Author of "The Library Book," in Conversation with Julia Turner - Conversation 1021 - REQUIRES TICKET Town & Gown, Signing Area 1Julia Turner • Susan Orlean

11:30am PDT

Fiction: Epic Storytelling - Conversation 1082 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 124, Signing Area 4Chris Daley • Yangsze Choo • Rabeah Ghaffari • Paula Saunders • Lisa See Tayari Jones, Author of "American Marriage: A Novel," in Conversation with Michael Silverblatt - Conversation 1102 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 101, Signing Area 5Michael Silverblatt • Tayari Jones Matthew Gray Gubler, Author of "Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging, and Being Yourself" **Please click through to see signing instructions Reading by 9 Children's Stage Presented by Target, Signing Area 7Matthew Gray Gubler

12:00pm PDT

Beyond the Cookbook: Stories from the World of Food - Conversation 1022 - REQUIRES TICKET Town & Gown, Signing Area 1Lucas Kwan Peterson • Jonathan Kauffman • Ted Lee • Matt Lee • Ruth Reichl Terrance Hayes, Reading from "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin" Poetry Stage, Signing Area 2Terrance Hayes A Swiftly Heating Planet: Writing Climate Change Across Genres, presented by the National Book Foundation - Conversation 1092 - REQUIRES TICKET Salvatori Computer Science Center 101, Signing Area 4Carolyn Kellogg • Arlie Russell Hochschild • Claire Vaye Watkins Terry Tempest Williams, 2018 Robert Kirsch Award Winner, in Conversation with Tom Curwen - Conversation 1112 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 201, Signing Area 5Tom Curwen • Terry Tempest Williams

1:00pm PDT

Love, Actually: Writing the Modern Romance - Conversation 1013 - REQUIRES TICKET Hoffman Hall, Signing Area 1Erin Judge • Alyssa Cole • Jasmine Guillory • Camille Perri Tommy Orange, Author of "There There," in Conversation with Natashia Deón - Conversation 1103 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 101, Signing Area 5Natashia Deón • Tommy Orange Kwame Alexander & Kadir Nelson, Author & Illustrator of "The Undefeated" in Conversation with Claudette S. McLinn - Conversation 1083 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 124, Signing Area 4Claudette S. McLinn • Kwame Alexander • Kadir Nelson Creating Poetic Voice in the Age of Witness - Conversation 1033 - REQUIRES TICKET Mudd Hall 203, Signing Area 1David Baker • Jericho Brown • Victoria Chang • Carl Phillips • Diane Seuss The Second Amendment: A Discussion of Guns In America - Conversation 1053 - REQUIRES TICKET Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Signing Area 3Kurtis Lee • Jennifer Carlson • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • Alex Kotlowitz • Igor Volsky

1:30pm PDT

Memoir: Who We Came From and Who We Came to Be - Conversation 1073 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 123, Signing Area 4Samantha Dunn • Nicole Chung • Rigoberto González • Vanessa McGrady • Sophia Shalmiyev Young Adult Fiction: Friends and "Friends" YA Stage Presented by HS Insider, Signing Area 9Zan Romanoff • Julie Buxbaum • Cecil Castellucci • Aminah Mae Safi Young Adult Fiction: Not Quite Real Life - Conversation 1113 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 201, Signing Area 5Michelle Ruiz Keil • Tehlor Kay Mejia • Justin A. Reynolds • Lilliam Rivera

2:30pm PDT

Set Me Free: Novels of War, Internment, and Enslavement - Conversation 1084 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 124, Signing Area 4Scott O'Connor • Esi Edugyan • Christian Kiefer • Crystal Hana Kim Writing Writers: Novels About Struggling Artists - Conversation 1034 - REQUIRES TICKET Mudd Hall 203, Signing Area 1Agatha French • C.J. Farley • Belle Boggs • Dana Czapnik • Juliet Lapidos Crime Fiction: Hidden Truths - Conversation 1104 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 101, Signing Area 5Steph Cha • Lou Berney • Jeffrey Fleishman • Tod Goldberg • Joe Ide

3:00pm PDT

Sloane Crosley, Author of "Look Alive Out There," in Conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald - Conversation 1074 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 123, Signing Area 4Isaac Fitzgerald • Sloane Crosley Fiction: Swept Along By Circumstance - Conversation 1114 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 201, Signing Area 5David Francis • Janet Fitch • Rebecca Makkai Writing Across Genres: What it Means to be Black in America - Conversation 1024 - REQUIRES TICKET Town & Gown, Signing Area 1Rebecca Carroll • Morgan Parker • Nafissa Thompson-Spires • Damon Young Young Adult Fiction: The Secret of Me YA Stage Presented by HS Insider, Signing Area 9Jonathan Hunt • Robin Benway • Dana L. Davis • Kelly Loy Gilbert • Jennifer Gilmore Publishing Poets: On The Best American Poetry - Conversation 1134 - REQUIRES TICKET Wallis Annenberg Hall Presented by USC, Signing Area 10Callie Siskel • Brendan Constantine • Dana Gioia • Sonia Greenfield • Robin Coste Lewis

3:20pm PDT

Deborah Landau, Reading from "Soft Targets" Poetry Stage, Signing Area 2Deborah Landau

4:00pm PDT

Drop the Beat: Writing About Music - Conversation 1015 - REQUIRES TICKET Hoffman Hall, Signing Area 1Greg Mack • Hanif Abdurraqib • Will Ashon • Gerrick Kennedy Stories From the Mexican Border - Conversation 1055 - REQUIRES TICKET Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Signing Area 3Molly Hennessy-Fiske • Gary Coronado • Aaron Bobrow-Strain • Francisco Cantú

4:30pm PDT

Psychological Thrillers: The Real and the Imagined - Conversation 1075 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 123, Signing Area 4Leslie S. Klinger • Rachel Howzell Hall • Josh Malerman • Paul Tremblay Young Adult Fantasy: Worlds Beyond Imagination YA Stage Presented by HS Insider, Signing Area 9Cecil Castellucci • Kathi Appelt • Ally Condie • Hafsah Faizal • Marissa Kennerson Young Adult Fiction: Writing The Fantastic - Conversation 1025 - REQUIRES TICKET Town & Gown, Signing Area 1Robert Graves • Dhonielle Clayton • Tahereh Mafi • Jennifer Nielsen • Veronica Roth

5:00pm PDT

#Unsent - Personal Storytelling and Podcast Newstory StageNancy Witt • Clint Schaff • Tamika Butler • Salvador Benavides • Erica Dawson • Noah Nelson • Jadah Parks Chatterjee • Lisa Daron Grossman • Jasmine Guillory • Chani Nicholas • Brittany Ballard • Hanna Bowens
 
Sunday, April 14
 

10:00am PDT

Dystopian Fiction: It's the End of the World As We Know It - Conversation 2011 - REQUIRES TICKET Hoffman Hall, Signing Area 1Mark Haskell Smith • Ben H. Winters • Adam Nemett

10:30am PDT

Laila Lalami, Author of "The Other Americans," in Conversation with Carolina A. Miranda - Conversation 2021 - REQUIRES TICKET Town & Gown, Signing Area 1Carolina A. Miranda • Laila Lalami Connections and Consequences: Young Adult Fiction - Conversation 2071 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 123, Signing Area 4Sharon Levin • Lizzy Mason • Matt Mendez • Emily X.R. Pan Young Adult Fiction: Who Am I Anyway? YA Stage Presented by HS Insider, Signing Area 9Elissa Sussman • Kayla Cagan • Brandy Colbert • Sarah Enni • Sandhya Menon Science Fiction: Worlds Beyond Our Own - Conversation 2111 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 201, Signing Area 5Donna Wares • Charlie Jane Anders • Ashok Banker • Henry Thomas

11:00am PDT

Young Adult Fiction: Writing The Real World - Conversation 2101 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 101, Signing Area 5Claudette S. McLinn • Elizabeth Acevedo • Meg Medina • Ibi Zoboi Walter Mosley, Author of "Down the River Unto the Sea," in Conversation with Christopher Goffard - Conversation 2051 - REQUIRES TICKET - CANCELED Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Signing Area 3Christopher Goffard • Walter Mosley

11:30am PDT

Fiction: Calamity and Chaos - Conversation 2012 - REQUIRES TICKET Hoffman Hall, Signing Area 1Doug Dutton • Leland de la Durantaye • Abby Geni • Jordy Rosenberg

12:00pm PDT

Memoir: Exploring Life in Small Passages - Conversation 2112 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 201, Signing Area 5Adriana Ramirez • Sarah McColl • Suzannah Lessard • Marion Winik Memoir: Voices of the Black American Experience - Conversation 2022 - REQUIRES TICKET Town & Gown, Signing Area 1Karen Grigsby Bates • Bridgett Davis • Casey Gerald • Kiese Laymon A Lens to the Past: Historical Young Adult Fiction YA Stage Presented by HS Insider, Signing Area 9Sharon Levin • Julie Berry • Tonya Bolden • Melissa de la Cruz Books: What It Means to Be a Reader - Conversation 2072 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 123, Signing Area 4Heather Scott Partington • Glory Edim • Lisa Lucas • Max Rudin • David L. Ulin

12:30pm PDT

Fiction: Versions of California - Conversation 2082 - REQUIRES TICKET Seeley G. Mudd 124, Signing Area 4Antoine Wilson • Vanessa Hua • Lydia Kiesling • Nina Revoyr • Susan Straight

1:00pm PDT

Essays and Memoir: Living Our Best Lives - Conversation 2013 - REQUIRES TICKET Hoffman Hall, Signing Area 1Chris Erskine • Lori Gottlieb • Cathy Guisewite • Heather Havrilesky • Mary Laura Philpott Dan Santat, Illustrator of "No More Poems!" Reading by 9 Children's Stage Presented by Target, Signing Area 7Dan Santat

1:30pm PDT

Leigh Bardugo, Author of "King of Scars," in Conversation with Eva Chen - Conversation 2023 - REQUIRES TICKET Town & Gown, Signing Area 1Eva Chen • Leigh Bardugo

2:00pm PDT

T.C. Boyle, Author of "Outside Looking In," with an Introduction From Norman Pearlstine - Conversation 2053 - REQUIRES TICKET Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Signing Area 3Norman Pearlstine • T.C. Boyle

2:30pm PDT

Memoir: Queer Coming-of-Age - Conversation 2014 - REQUIRES TICKET Hoffman Hall, Signing Area 1Noel Alumit • Anuradha Bhagwati • T Kira Madden • James Oseland • Jacob Tobia

3:00pm PDT

Young Adult Fiction: A Matter of Life and Death - Conversation 2094 - REQUIRES TICKET Salvatori Computer Science Center 101, Signing Area 4Amy Spalding • Daniel Acosta • Lamar Giles • Maureen Johnson • Megan Miranda Cracks in the System? Social Justice In America - Conversation 2004 - REQUIRES TICKET Hancock Foundation, Signing Area 1Scott Kraft • Sandy Banks • Casey Gerald • Randy Shaw • Kyle Swenson John Scalzi, Author of "The Consuming Fire," and Cory Doctorow, Author of "Radicalized," in Conversation with Maryelizabeth Yturralde - Conversation 2024 - REQUIRES TICKET Town & Gown, Signing Area 1Maryelizabeth Yturralde • Cory Doctorow • John Scalzi

3:30pm PDT

In My Feelings: Young Adult Rom Coms YA Stage Presented by HS Insider, Signing Area 9Kayla Cagan • Sara Biren • Melissa de la Cruz • Maurene Goo • Jennifer E. Smith A Singular Focus: Chasing The Hidden Story - Conversation 2104 - REQUIRES TICKET Taper Hall 101, Signing Area 5Laura Nelson • Mark Bowden • Margaret Leslie Davis • Kirk Wallace Johnson • Sarah Weinman

4:00pm PDT

Writing & Publishing: Inside Stories of the Book Business - Conversation 2015 - REQUIRES TICKET Hoffman Hall, Signing Area 1Oscar Villalon • Dan Smetanka • Colleen Dunn Bates • Betsy Amster • Nicole Dewey