Bookstore Clerks & Significant Others

Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky's Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a father, teacher, and freelance creative living in Portland, Oregon.

Mose Tuzik Mosley has been a travel writer for more than twenty-five years and has traveled extensively, throughout the world, on a wing and a prayer and a budget that few could match for its paucity. He has earned degrees from the University of Connecticut (BA Political Science/Journalism) and the University of Oregon (MS Journalism). Still, he has not let higher education stop him from becoming a writer. He currently resides in rural Lane County, Oregon, USA, and Cabo del Este, Los Cabos, BCS, Mexico. This is his first book.

Valerie Ihsan is the author of You Can't Dance a Lie: A Memoir of Stepping into My Truth; The Scent of Apple Tea; and Smell the Blue Sky: Young, Pregnant, and Widowed, winner of a B.R.A.G. Medallion for Top Indie-Published Books. She co-chaired the Eugene Chapter of Willamette Writers for ten years; and podcasts, coaches, and edits for authors. She's served in the United States Army, owns land in Costa Rica, and lives with her husband and three dogs in Springfield, Oregon. She loves chocolate, cheese, and dogs.

Scott Landfield has been a worker and owner of Tsunami Books for over twenty-seven years.

S. G. Ellerhoff holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and works at Tsunami Books and Press as a book clerk and associate editor.

Ken Babbs, Ohio-bred and Ohio-born, is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a member of two NCAA tournament basketball teams. He was turned on to writing at Miami by Walter Havighurst, a fine scholar and scribe.

He attended graduate school at Stanford University, where he met Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry and other luminaries in Wallace Stegner's writing class. Five years in the Marine Corps followed, serving as a helicopter pilot, with his final tour of duty in Vietnam. He got off the chopper and onto the bus, Further, for the famous trip to Madhattan in 1964, chronicled in print by Tom Wolfe and filmed and taped by the Merry Pranksters.

He shared forty-three years of collaboration and shenanigans with Kesey--doing shows, speaking engagements and musical catastrophes--plus writing books, magazine articles, and co-editing six issues of Spit in the Ocean. Babbs co-wrote Last Go Round with Kesey, and went on to publish a novel based on his experiences in Vietnam, Who Shot the Water Buffalo?

Married to a retired high school English teacher, he lives on a six-acre farm in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon.

Cecelia Hagen is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Fringe Living and Among Others. Herpoems, essays, and reviews have been widely published and her work has won awards and residencies from Literary Arts, the AWP, the MacDowell Colony, Soapstone, Caldera, and Passager magazine. She teaches memoir and poetry writing in Eugene, Oregon.

Nina Kiriki Hoffman is an award-winning author of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and media tie-in fiction. She has published novels, short story collections, and more than two hundred short stories. Her novel The Thread That Binds the Bones won the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, and her work has been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards.

Born in Colorado, Carter McKenzie earned her master's degree in English at the University of Virginia. She currently lives in Oregon's Cascade foothills with her two daughters and teaches creative writing to students of all ages. In addition, she continues to study and perform songs of the Scottish Gaelic tradition with the women's a cappella group Kitchen Ceilidh at festivals as well as in college classrooms. Among the publications her poems have appeared in are Fireweed, Dona Nobis Pacem: Grant Us Peace, and Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War. Her chapbook Naming Departure was published by Traprock Books in 2004. OUT OF REFUSAL is her first full-length book of poetry.

Joseph Millar is the author of Overtime, Fortune, Blue Rust, Kingdom, and Dark Harvest. His work has won a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University in Oregon and lives in Richmond, California.