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Author! Author! Returns—with an Oregon Focus

The Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s Author! Author! literary series brings award-winning authors to Central Oregon to share their books and engage audiences in discussions regarding their work—and this year, the focus is on Oregon authors. All proceeds from Author! Author! ticket sales benefit the library’s youth, teen, and senior programs and services.

 

ANIS MOJGANI

Anis Mojgani was the 10th Poet Laureate of Oregon, a two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Mojgani has done commissions for the Getty Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum. His work has appeared on HBO and National Public Radio, and in the pages of The New York Times, Rattle, Platypus, Winter Tangerine, Forklift Ohio, and Bat City Review. He is the author of six books of poetry and the opera libretto for Sanctuaries. Mojgani’s first children’s book is forthcoming, and his latest poetry collection is The Tigers They Let Me. Originally from New Orleans, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

 

ELLEN WATERSTON

Ellen Waterston was named Oregon Poet Laureate in August 2024 for a two-year term. A New Englander who moved to the ranching West, much of Waterston’s prose and poetry is inspired by the remote reaches of southeastern Oregon’s Outback. Waterston has published four collections of poetry and three nonfiction titles. Her latest book is We Could Die Doing This, a collection of essays. She is the recipient of the Stewart H. Holbrook Award and the Soapstone Bread and Roses Award, as well as winner of the Obsidian Prize in Poetry and two-time winner of the WILLA Award in Poetry. In addition to her work as an author, Waterston founded the for-profit Writing Ranch and two literary arts nonprofits. Waterston lives in Bend, Oregon.

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WILLY VLAUTIN

Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Willy Vlautin is the author of seven novels and is the founder of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. Vlautin has been the recipient of three Oregon Book Awards, The Nevada Silver Pen Award, and was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame and the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. He was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and was shortlisted for the Impac Award (International Dublin Literary Award). Three of his novels­—The Motel Life, Lean on Pete, and The Night Always Comes—have been adapted as films. His novels have been translated into 11 languages. Vlautin teaches at Pacific University’s MFA in Writing program and lives near Portland, Oregon, with his wife, dog, cats, and horses.

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