Apricot Irving
Apricot Irving is a writer and radio producer whose most recent project, Boise Voices Neighborhood Oral History Project , brought together elders and youth in Northeast Portland. She is currently...
Leni Zumas
Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator (Open City, 2008) and the novel The Listeners, forthcoming from Tin House in 2012. Her fiction has appeared in many...
Julian Smith
Julian Smith is an award-winning writer specializing in travel and science. His articles and photographs have appeared in Smithsonian, Wired, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, New Scientist, the Los Angeles...
Nancy Rommelman
Nancy Rommelman’s work has appeared in many publications offline and online, including the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Reason, Byliner and LA Observed. She has published four books, most recently the...
Allison Cobb
Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 (Chax Press, 2004) about her hometown of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Green-Wood (Factory School, 2010) about a famous nineteenth-century cemetery in Brooklyn, New...
Luca DiPierro
Luca Dipierro is an illustrator, animator and writer born in Italy and living in the USA. He is the author of the book of fictions Biscotti Neri, published in...
Ceiridwen Terrill
Ceiridwen Terrill is a writer and adventurer who loves to tell stories about humans and animals sharing home ground. She teaches environmental journalism and science writing at Concordia University in Portland. Her...
Ismet Prcic
Ismet Prcic is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for fiction in 2010. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Bat City Review, Wazee...
Rosanne E. Lortz
Rosanne E. Lortz is a medieval enthusiast, a history teacher, a book addict, a mom to two baby boys, and a native of Portland, Oregon. She graduated from New St....
Kevin Sampsell
Kevin Sampsell has been the publisher of Future Tense Books since 1990. His own books include the short story collections Beautiful Blemish and Creamy Bullets, and the memoir A Common Pornography....











