*This panel will be one hour (approximately 9:30-10:30) and then it will repeat in a second session from approximately 10:30-11:30.
From robots to Tasmanian tigers to “modern-day witch hunts,” and a kid with a pet octopus, these fiction writers are breaking new ground and making waves in the literary scene. With riveting prose, unusual characters, and gripping plotlines, these writers will make you see the world in a new way. Simeon Mills is a writer, cartoonist, and teacher. His novel The Obsoletes, is forthcoming this summer. He is also the author/creator of the graphic novel Butcher Paper. Leyna Krow is the author of the short story collection, I’m Fine, But You Appear to be Sinking. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of What We Do With the Wreckage, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the author of Swimming with Strangers, and This Life She’s Chosen. Leni Zumas is the author of Red Clocks, Farewell Navigators, and The Listeners. Red Clocks is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and has entered its third printing. She is the director of the creative writing program at Portland State University.
