AUTHORS 25-26

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 Amy Baskin is an Oregon Literary Arts Fellow and 4-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She is the author of Hysterical Cake (Dancing Girl Press, 2022), Night Hag (Unsolicited Press, 2023), which explores femininity through the eternal voice of Lilith, the first woman, and Skull (The Poetry Box, 2024), a journey of healing from brain injury. She works for the Departments of English and History at Lewis & Clark College and helps run literary arts programs including Fir Acres Writing Workshop and the Visiting Writers Series, which is open to the public. She serves as staff advisor for The Palatine Hill Review, a student-run literary journal. 

 Jane Carlsen writes fiction and poetry deeply rooted in her decades-long yoga practice and

thirty years as a shepherd and timberland steward in Oregon’s fertile Willamette Valley. Her

work has appeared in Windfall Press, Paper Gardens, Clinton Street Quarterly, and Oregon

Magazine. Bridging her creative and scientific interests, Carlsen’s yoga research has been

published in academic journals including Neurology and The International Journal of Yoga

Therapy. Sweet Constance, her debut novel, weaves together her intimate knowledge of the

land with profound questions of belonging and stewardship. Since her move to Portland, Jane

can usually be found with dirt under her fingernails, rewilding the vacant lot next door.

 Jennie Bricker practices natural resources law in Portland, with a side gig as a freelance editor and writer. She has previously worked as a bookstore clerk, a college writing instructor, a magazine editor, a comic book editor, a pizza delivery driver, and the brown furry mascot for a Klamath Falls pizza joint formerly known as Grizzly Bear Pizza.

Jennie has published around 40 nonfiction articles, both magazine features and academic pieces, one of which received an award. Her short stories and microfiction have appeared in 100 Word Story, Third Wednesday Magazine, and a Writer’s Digest prizewinners anthology. Her first novel, Thirsty Creek, is about a small fictional community in the Wallowa Mountains of eastern Oregon.

 Mari Matthias developed Spanish immersion curriculum for toddlers and opened a school for a few years, teaching classes full of song and play. After thirteen years with the State, she left the job to work on her first novel. Soon Mari was volunteering in the schools so much that she decided to substitute teach, until her youngest graduated in 2020. Now, in her spare time, she works as clinical coordinator for a local nonprofit family health clinic.

Her first novel, The Runestone’s Promise, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2022. Her second, Cleah’s Bequest is set to be published in April of 2026.