WORDS FROM THE DIRECTOR
Dear Friends,
There’s been a lot of discussion about our community getting “back to normal” or “making a comeback” in the past year. I understand the sentiment and am excited about the very significant work so many are doing in these challenging times, but I also want us to talk more about moving forward, rather than “back.” Nostalgia is a powerful and dangerous force, and we should all be skeptical of the idea that previous eras were good for everyone (or that a rerun of previous eras would even be possible, let alone good for everyone).
The thrust of the programs of Literary Arts are forward, to build on the work that was good, and contribute to a bright, more informed, empowered, engaged, and equitable community that will be different than before. These efforts join the work of many others whose broad goals we share. You will find throughout the pages of this report many details about how we are deeply investing in the people of this community, including: inspiring thousands of youth who need support to find their true voice; hosting Portland Arts and Lectures and Portland Book Festival in downtown and welcoming thousands into dialogue with the most accomplished authors and thinkers of our time; supporting new and risky work by writers from all over the state; travelling hundreds of miles across Oregon to host readings and workshops; or broadcasting statewide both our current public programs, and the great events from our past, on our OPB radio show and podcast, The Archive Project For each aspect of our mission—engaging readers, supporting writers, and inspiring youth—you will find details on how we strive to make our work more equitable. We have lots of work to do, of course, and are always searching for ways to improve. Our commitment to you is to continue to make as much progress as we can, and to keep this value front and center in all our work.
We are also making another kind of deep investment in this community. This year marked significant progress on two long-held goals of the organization. The Campaign for Literary Arts, which has its roots as far back as 2016, is a $22.5 million capital campaign that will create a new permanent home for the organization and, more importantly, build a new cultural space for community members of all ages to meet, talk, read, share their work, and hear each other’s stories. Our new home, located at 716 SE Grand Avenue in the core of Portland, will include a bookstore, café, more classrooms, more event space, a recording studio, and new offices for our growing staff. The Campaign for Literary Arts will also transform the home of Ursula K. Le Guin into a writers residency program, in accordance with her wishes, which were finalized in conversations with Literary Arts in 2017. These together, with our current programming, will make Literary Arts one of the largest organizations of its kind in the United States, allowing us to bring more resources to the vital work of community members to tell their stories, to be heard, and to experience the transformative impact of literature. We look forward to opening our doors to you, very soon.
In gratitude,
ANDREW PROCTOR, Executive Director | andrew@literary-arts.org
Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.
Andrew Proctor speaking from stage at an event.
OUR PROGRAMS
23,000 READERS ENGAGED
From the concert hall to the classroom, world-renowned authors interacted with our communities throughout the season. Our 2023–24 season of events featured more than 150 authors at Portland Arts & Lectures, Special Events, and Portland Book Festival. We loved welcoming audiences in the concert hall, the festival stages, the Literary Arts event space, and on the radio.
2,000 WRITERS SUPPORTED
We celebrated and recognized exceptional work being created by local writers and publishers through awards and fellowships. We promoted the work of local and national writers at free events at our downtown community space. We also hired local and national authors to teach writing classes to adults and youth. Classes were offered in person at Literary Arts, and online for students outside Portland and across the country.
3,800 YOUTH INSPIRED
Our Writers in the Schools (WITS) writers-in-residence taught across many classes, including radio broadcasting and film studies. Readings took place in coffee shops and bookstores around Portland, and on stage at Portland Book Festival. The East Side Slam returned, featuring poets from Parkrose and Nelson high schools, and two finalists advanced to our citywide youth poetry championship Verselandia! The College Essay Exchange returned to nine schools across three districts.
Tracy K. Smith and Major Jackson speak at Portland Book Festival
Dane Liu presenting the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature at the 2024 Oregon Book Awards
A student reads from the 2022–2023 Writers in the Schools anthology at the launch during Portland Book Festival 2023
23,000 READERS engaged
PORTLAND ARTS & LECTURES
Thousands of subscribers and hundreds of high school students gathered in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to hear from some of our greatest contemporary writers and thinkers: Zadie Smith, Mary Beard, David Grann, Charles Yu, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. In addition to the lectures, authors engaged with readers and writers of all ages in sessions with professional writers and meetings with public high school students.
2,074 annual subscribers • 365 students attended for free, 789 books provided for free, 256 attended author visits • $39,036 raised for Youth Programs during the subscription renewals period
THE ARCHIVE PROJECT
Our radio show and podcast The Archive Project broadcasts a wide range of Literary Arts programming, including recordings from Portland Arts & Lectures, Portland Book Festival, Everybody Reads, special events, and Verselandia! Our tenth season premiered in November 2023. Listen every Sunday at 7:00 p.m. on OPB radio and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
6,583 weekly listeners on the radio and online
EVERYBODY READS 2024
In partnership with Multnomah County Library and the Library Foundation, this year’s Everybody Reads program featured Gabrielle Zevin and her bestselling novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. The library distributed over 16,000 paperback, eBook, and audio copies of the book as part of the program, and during her time in Portland, Zevin met with students at Grant High School.
“Literary Arts is all the things! The staff brings so much intelligence, warmth, care and skill, building events, excitement and, above all, a community. I am deeply impressed and inspired by what they do.”
— Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown, winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction
Charles Yu speaking at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
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I love being introduced to new authors, as well as the interplay between and among authors and the moderators. Being around so many other book lovers always makes me feel that, despite difficult times, there’s still hope for the world.”
—
2023 Portland Book Festival attendee
PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL
On Saturday, November 4, 2023, Portland Book Festival featured more than 100 presenters in conversation about new books, from bestselling authors to exciting debuts. Presenters included bestselling novelist Naomi Alderman, picture book superstars Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, hometown hero Mitchell S. Jackson, Oregon poet laureate Anis Mojgani, Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, and many more. The day also featured food trucks, a book fair, and pop-up readings in the Portland Art Museum galleries.
147 presenters • 250+ volunteers • 11 stages • 6 venues
DELVE READERS SEMINARS
Delve participants gathered weekly to read and discuss works by Henry James, Ursula K. Le Guin, Cormac McCarthy, Marcel Proust, Zadie Smith, and other writers.
220 readers participated in Delves
“Our Delve Guide’s ability to balance conversational leadership with open spaces for healthy dialogue is very important to cultivating the vibrant atmosphere that most attracts me to these Literary Arts events. Learning from someone like this makes me thankful for Delves, which are some of my very favorite things about Portland.” — Delve participant
SPECIAL EVENTS
Literary Arts is honored to have hosted special events with many remarkable authors and organizations. In fall 2023, we hosted best-selling author Ann Patchett discussing her new novel, Tom Lake, with Cheryl Strayed; and Barbara Kingsolver spoke about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Demon Copperhead, with Jess Walter. We hosted The Moth Mainstage in December 2023, and in April 2024 we copresented an author visit as part of Multnomah County Library’s Everybody Reads Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow with Gabrielle Zevin.
COMMITTED TO EQUITY
• Portland Book Festival lineup featured 50% BIPOC presenters (on-stage authors, moderators, and pop-up authors).
• Free and reduced-price tickets were offered for all programs, including through Arts for All and the Multnomah County Library’s Discovery Pass program. Youth tickets were free for Portland Book Festival, Everybody Reads, and Verselandia!.
• Portland Book Festival featured a bilingual story time with Adventures in Spanish, and a bilingual pop-up event with Cross-Stitch author Jazmina Barrera.
Gabrielle Zevin speaking at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Readers pore over books at the Broadway Books’ satellite bookstore at Hatfield Hall during Portland Book Festival 2023
2,000 WRITERS supported
OREGON BOOK AWARDS
The 2024 Oregon Book Awards finalists included 35 titles in seven genres, selected by out-of-state judges from 202 submissions. Kwame Alexander hosted the 37th annual Oregon Book Awards ceremony, held in-person on April 8, 2024, at Portland Center Stage at The Armory. The ceremony included the announcement of the Oregon Book Award winners in seven categories, and the presentation of the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award to Ellen Waterston.
187 books submitted • 37 finalists recognized and celebrated • 255 books donated to 19 libraries across Oregon
2024 OREGON BOOK AWARD WINNERS
Ken Kesey Award for Fiction: Patrick deWitt, The Librarianist (Ecco/HarperCollins) Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry: Daniela Naomi Molnar, CHORUS (Omnidawn)
Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction: Josephine Woolington, Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest (Ooligan Press)
Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction: Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron Books/Macmillan Publishers)
Award for Graphic Literature: Kerilynn Wilson, The Faint of Heart (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
Leslie Bradshaw Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature: Waka T. Brown, The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature: Nora Ericson, Too Early (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award: Ellen Waterston
OREGON BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR EVENTS
The Oregon Book Awards Author Tour visited Astoria, Cannon Beach, Fossil, La Grande, Maupin, McMinnville, and Pendleton for readings and discussions.
7 authors visited 7 towns for 7 readings
BOOKS DISTRIBUTED TO LIBRARIES
Literary Arts shipped 265 books by Oregon Book Awards authors, donated by their publishers, to 19 libraries across the state.
“I think so many of us write as a way to eventually facilitate connection, despite the loneliness of it. This Fellowship feels like a realization of these efforts to be in conversation with or a part of something outside of my day-to-day practice, in a way that’s really special.”
— Kieran Mundy, Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient
OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS
We received 527 applications from writers and 28 applications from publishers for the 2024 fellowships. Recipients were selected by a panel of out-of-state judges that spent several months evaluating these applications, using literary excellence as the primary criterion.
2 writers awarded Oregon Literary Career fellowships of $10,000 each • 8 Oregon writers and 2 Oregon publishers awarded fellowships of $3,500 each, for a total of $55,000 fellowships awarded
@LITERARYARTS EVENTS
We hosted our ongoing resident series: INCITE, One Page Wednesday, Slamlandia, and the BIPOC reading series. We also partnered with the Alano Club and PEN America, and local and national authors for events for readers and writers.
1,400 total audience members attended 58 events with 7 community partners and 120 presenting artists
WRITERS FORUMS WITH PORTLAND ARTS & LECTURES AUTHORS
Portland Arts & Lectures visiting authors met with current and former fellowship recipients and book awards authors for one-hour Q&A sessions.
25 Oregon writers met with 4 Portland Arts & Lectures authors
“I so appreciate how you convene writers for conversation with visiting luminaries. Aimee is so undiminished in her open connections by her fame and success. So refreshing.”
— Kim Stafford
WRITING CLASSES
Writers honed their craft and explored a variety of topics in our classes, including autofiction, memoir, novel writing, and poetry. Classes met in-person and online. Over half of our students were from outside Portland.
525 students participated in 58 classes
COMMITTED TO EQUITY
• 25% of 2024 OBA judges are BIPOC.
• 20% of writing teachers are BIPOC.
• 50% of 2024 OLF judges are BIPOC.
• 54 writing class and Delve students received an access tuition scholarship, which covers 50% of the class tuition.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil speaks with writers
An audience listens to a reader during the BIPOC Reading Series at Literary Arts
3,800 YOUTH inspired
WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS RESIDENCIES
We partnered with 24 educators at 13 public high schools throughout the year. Writers in the Schools (WITS) residencies were held in English and Creative Writing classes as well as Speculative Fiction, Radio Broadcasting, Multimedia Journalism, Film Studies, and Earth and Space Science classes.
“Working with a professional writer helped to show me different perspectives on writing and ways to analyze a text.” —McDaniel High School student
881 students served in 39 classes • 25 professional writers hired, including 3 apprentices • 66 students were published in the 2022–23 WITS anthology Hope Is a Stem • 20 more were published in the 2022–23 WITS chapbook The Wind and its Ghostly Presence
AUTHOR VISITS, EVERYBODY READS, AND STUDENTS TO THE SCHNITZ
Hundreds of students engaged with six world-class authors in the concert hall and classroom throughout the year for the 2023–24 Portland Arts & Lectures season and Everybody Reads. 365 students attended lectures, and 282 students attended author visits. This year, Youth Programs continued to partner with OPB’s Think Out Loud to combine the live interviews with author visits, giving students the opportunity to participate in the radio program. We held Think Out Loud interviews at Grant, Ida B. Wells, McDaniel, Nelson, and Parkrose.
789 books provided to students who attended lecture events and author visits.
A school bus parks behind the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall as high school students attend Everybody Reads 2024
“They broke down the process and helped me understand my story better. The most helpful mentors!”
—Woodburn High School student
VERSELANDIA! AND EAST SIDE SLAM
Verselandia! brought together poets from Portland and east Multnomah County high schools to compete for the title of Grand Slam Champion. Educators, friends, and family came out to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to hear the students perform. Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani hosted the evening.
20 students from 12 schools performed to an audience of 975 for a top prize of $1,000
The East Side Slam returned, giving students from east Multnomah and Clackamas counties the chance to compete for the night’s top prize of $500. Eight poets from Parkrose and Nelson High Schools participated, and two finalists advanced to compete in Verselandia! The slam was held at Adrienne C. Nelson High School for an audience of educators, family, friends, and even the school’s namesake, Justice Adrienne C. Nelson. Poet Armin Tolentino hosted the evening.
COLLEGE ESSAY EXCHANGE
The College Essay Exchange (formerly the College Essay Mentoring Project) offered 19 in-person sessions. 354 students from 9 Portland area high schools received help from 117 volunteers to write and edit their college application materials.
WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
We offered three workshops at the 2023 Portland Book Festival for high school aged students: ekphrastic poetry, worldbuilding, and narrative and social justice storytelling. Students from across Portland, east Multnomah County, and Woodburn read their published work in front of an audience of nearly 200 at the WITS anthology launch.
37 students attended our workshops • 15 students from 7 schools read at the WITS student anthology launch
COMMITTED TO EQUITY
• Continued deepening our relationship with schools outside of Portland and with culturally specific institutions
• Further developed our Writers in the Schools Apprenticeship for Writers of Color with writers Judy Jiang, Nicky Nicholson-Klingerman, and Zoë Gamell Brown.
• 45.4% of students served identify as BIPOC, and 61.3% qualify for free and reduced lunch.
Verselandia! 2024 champion Qiana Woods of Parkrose High School performs her winning poem at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
OUR NEXT CHAPTER
The Campaign for L terary Arts
The Campaign for L terary Arts
Literary Arts has embarked on a campaign to bring two new spaces to life and endow them with funds that ensure they will remain inclusive centers for literature for generations to come. Join us to write this next chapter.
A NEW HOME FOR LITERARY ARTS
$16.5 million
Purchase of building Renovations, including seismic upgrades Furnishings
Expanded staffing
THE URSULA K. LE GUIN WRITERS RESIDENCY
$2 million
Preservation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s home as a culturally significant site
Accessibility upgrades and renovations to convert the house into a writers residency
SUSTAINABILITY FUND
$4 million
Continuity of our work and spaces for future generations
$3 million Oregon Community Foundation
$1 million Board of Directors Reserve
Portland Center Stage
Powell’s City of Books
Lincoln High School
Portland Art Museum
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Dolores Winningstad Theatre
Brunish Theatre
Newmark Theatre
First Congregational
United Church of Christ
South Park Blocks
Oregon Historical Society
The Old Church Concert Hall
Keller Auditorium
STATEWIDE REACH
• The Oregon Book Awards Author Tour has visited over 30 communities across the state since 1999
• 714 applications submitted in 2023 for the Oregon Book Awards & Oregon Literary Fellowships
• 450,000+ gross annual listeners to The Archive Project radio show & podcast
OUR
Jefferson High School
Le Guin
Home
Klamath County Library Milwaukie Academy
Annie Bloom’s Books
Ida B. Wells High School
Many Nations Academy
Alliance High School
Grant High School
Broadway Books
NEW HOME
Franklin High School OPB
Roosevelt High School
We are Oregon’s hub for readers, writers, and youth
Partnerships with organizations across Oregon allow Literary Arts to reach thousands of readers, writers, and youth who might not otherwise have access to our programs.
To do this, we operate through a hub-andspoke model: the hub is the main office where we design programs and run the organization, and the spokes are our programs, physically dispersed throughout the city and state.
Our new base of operations will be a super-hub that allows us to connect to even more spokes in the community.
OUR PROGRAMS
For readers
Portland Book Festival
Portland Arts & Lectures + Special Events
Delve Readers Seminars
The Archive Project radio show & podcast
For writers
Writing classes
Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships
@LiteraryArts Events
Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency
For youth
Writers in the Schools
Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship
College Essay Exchange
Students to the Schnitz
McDaniel High School
Parkrose High School
Gresham High School
Benson Polytechnic High School
Find your story, leave a legacy
Sustain the programs of Literary Arts for years to come.
The final priority in The Campaign for Literary Arts is to create a $4 million Sustainability Fund to support our work and spaces for future generations. We invite you to join Literary Arts’ Legacy Society and leave a lasting impact on our community.
Benefits of joining the Legacy Society
• Recognition in our annual donor listings
• Personal invitations to occasional special events
• Sharing your story and inspiring generosity in others
• Supporting the Literary Arts programs you love in perpetuity
Please let us know if you plan to or have already named Literary Arts as a beneficiary in your estate plans. We would be delighted to personally thank you and welcome you to Literary Arts’ Legacy Society.
To learn more about how to make a meaningful charitable gift through your estate, please contact our Development team at 503-227-2583 or development@literary-arts.org.
TRANSFORMATIONAL GENEROSITY
Susan Hammer
Susan Hammer was a powerful advocate for arts and culture in Portland and a leader in the legal community in which she worked for over 40 years. She was deeply passionate about the mission of Literary Arts and served as a member of the Board of Directors and the Development Council. She participated in and generously supported all our programming.
In the summer of 2020, while the pandemic was still developing and our community was in a deeply uncertain time, Susan asked to meet with our Executive Director, Andrew Proctor, to discuss the future of Literary Arts. Andrew went to Susan’s home to show her the preliminary slides for our Campaign for Literary Arts.
Susan passed away on August 26, 2020. In a lasting act of generosity, she had established an Oregon Community Foundation legacy fund to distribute the remainder of her estate to organizations that bring people together in conversation to share experiences, build community, and inspire change. Through work with her advisors, Literary Arts was granted a catalytic, transformational gift of $3 million to launch our Campaign for Literary Arts and inspire our community to support the next chapter of the organization.
We are deeply grateful to Susan for her confidence in Literary Arts and this powerful endorsement of our mission. We trust that she would have been proud to see how our community has invested in this project, and we are proud to honor Susan’s legacy in the naming of our new headquarters at 716 SE Grand Avenue.
Thank you
Jill & Ken Abere
David & Courtney Angeli
Anonymous (4)
Ellyn Bye
Clifford and Doris Carlsen
Family Fund of Oregon Community Foundation
Jane Carlsen
Joan Cirillo & Roger Cooke
The City of Portland
The Collins Foundation
Anne Conway & Lou Baslaw
Ginnie Cooper & Rick Bauman
Roberta & Raymond Davis
Rebecca & Michael DeCesaro
Jodi Delahunt Hubbell & Todd Hubbell
Julie Strasser Dixon
Amy Donohue & Paul McKean
Theodore & Nancy Downes-Le Guin
Ann & Mark Edlen
Ann & Ron Emmerson
The Energy Trust of Oregon
Marilyn Epstein
Lana & Chris Finley
Alyce Flitcraft & Richard Solomon
Cheryl Francis & Sam Tannahill
Patricia Frobes &
Richard Smith
Bob Geddes
Thomas & Elizabeth Gewecke
Sarah Gibbon
Nancy & Ron Gronowski
Susan Hammer Fund of Oregon Community Foundation
Pat* & Kelley Harrington
Susan Hathaway-Marxer & Larry Marxer
Betsy & Tom Henning
Jonathan & Jennifer Hill
Mary E. Hirsch
Mark Holloway & David Kahl
Georgia Lee Hussey
Mitchell S. Jackson
The Jackson Foundation
Jon V. Jaqua & Kimberly B. Cooper Fund of Oregon Community Foundation
Susheela Jayapal
The Johnson Family Foundation
Maurice & Dori King
The Kinsman Foundation
Molly Kohnstamm
Caroline Le Guin
Charles Le Guin
Elizabeth Leach & Bert Berney
Literary Arts Board of Directors
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Jenny & Carter MacNichol
Michael Mason
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
Carolyn McKinney
Josie G. Mendoza & Hugh Mackworth
Sarah Miller Meigs
Anis Mojgani
National Endowment for the Humanities
Justice Adrienne Nelson & Ted Poole
Katherine O’Neil & Toby Graff
Corrine Oishi & Lindley Morton
Jan & Steve Oliva
The PGE Foundation
The PGE Renewable Development Fund
Amy Prosenjak & Steven Guy
Prosper Portland
Bonnie & Peter Reagan Fund of Oregon Community Foundation
Halle & Rick Sadle
Barbara & Norm Sepenuk
Penny & Peter Serrurier Fund of Oregon Community Foundation
Bob Speltz
The Standard
The Standard Matching Gift for Bob Speltz
The State of Oregon
Dennis Steinman
Lee Stewart & Chris Sherry
Donald & Roslyn Sutherland
John & Sandra Swinmurn
Geoffrey Tichenor & Stephanie Engelsman
Debra Turner Hatcher
Christine Vernier
Chabre Vickers
Kristin & Nicholas Walrod
Renée Watson
Amy Wayson & Ken Moran
Priscilla Bernard Wieden
We are grateful to the many generous investors in The Campaign for Literary Arts. Your support is imperative to our work to create a more just, inclusive, and equitable society. Below is a list of donors as of May 28, 2024. *Deceased
Jackie & William F. Willingham
Tom & Marcia Wood
Sue Wright
Dr. Candace Young
*Deceased
CORPORATE PARTNERS
2023–2024 LITERARY ARTS supporters
THANK
YOU TO OUR LEADERSHIP CIRCLE SUPPORTERS
Gifts made between 06/01/2023–05/31/2024.
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
Director's Circle $25,000+
Joan Cirillo & Roger Cooke
Rocky & Julie Strasser Dixon
Sue & Ed Einowski
Lana & Chris Finley
Betsy & Tom Henning
Josie G. Mendoza & Hugh Mackworth
Jan & Steve Oliva
Amy Prosenjak & Steven Guy
Priscilla Bernard Wieden
Sustainer's Circle
$10,000-24,999
Anonymous
Don & Mary Blair
Mary & Tim Boyle
Ginnie Cooper & Rick Bauman
Marilyn Epstein
Dean & Alison Freed
Thomas & Elizabeth Gewecke
Mary E. Hirsch
Ross M. Lienhart
Phillip M. Margolin
Carolyn McKinney
Katherine O’Neil & Toby Graff
Corrine Oishi & Lindley Morton
Diane Ponti & Ward Greene
Bob Speltz & Dwight Adkins
Violetta Fund
Carl Wilson & Evan Boone
Marcia & Tom Wood
*Deceased
Contributor's Circle $5,000-9,999
Anonymous
Jill & Ken Abere
Elizabeth Anderson
David & Courtney Angeli
Rebecca & Michael DeCesaro
Amy Donohue & Paul McKean
Theodore & Nancy Downes-Le Guin
Bob Geddes
Sarah Gibbon
Greg Goodman & Susan Schnitzer
Barbara & Jock Kimberley
Maurice & Dori King
Molly Kohnstamm
Vanessa Morgan & Robert Quillin
Jan & Ed Murphy
Andrew & Veronica Proctor
Halle & Rick Sadle
Dennis Steinman
Donald & Roslyn Sutherland
Geoffrey Tichenor & Stephanie Engelsman
Margaret & Tom Tuchmann
Renée Watson
Jackie & William Willingham
Susan Winkler
Supporter’s Circle $2,500-4,999
Anonymous
Ray & Jean Auel
Karin Barber
Tanya Cerda
Jodi Delahunt Hubbell & Todd Hubbell
Emi & Brett Donis
Cheryl Francis & Sam Tannahill
Patricia Frobes & Richard Smith
Linda & Ronald Greenman
Nancy & Ron Gronowski
Kristin & Avery Guest
Ken & Paula Hale
Susan Hathaway-Marxer & Larry Marxer
Shannon Inukai Cuffee
Susheela Jayapal
Helen Langley
Caroline Le Guin
Jon & Sheila Levine
Barbara & Michael Maloney
Darcy Martin & Veronica Martin
Richard H. Meeker & Ellen F. Rosenblum
Anastasia & Rob Moro
Irene Parikhal & Ian Yolles
Elizabeth Reaves Walker
Mary Brown Ruble & Craig Ruble
Victor Trelawny
Amy Wayson & Ken Moran
We do our very best to keep accurate records. If you have a correction or update to share, please reach out to the Development team at development@literary-arts.org
THANK YOU TO OUR ANNUAL FUND SUPPORTERS
Gifts made between 06/01/2023–05/31/2024.
INDIVIDUALS
$1,000+
Ann Barden
Catherine Bekooy
Adriane T. and Samuel S.* Blackman Family Fund
Nancy & Roderick Boutin
Peter & Ellen Bragdon
Julia Bromka
Shelly & Paul Buchanan
Lisa & Royce Bullock
Ramona & Bruce Cahn
Jane Carlsen & John Estrem
Tom Palmer & Ann Carter
Christine & Matthew Casebeer
Connie Christopher & Kermit Chamberlin
Anne Conway & Lou Baslaw
Louise & Darren Demetre
Amy Dice
Penny & Ken Durant
Colin Evans
Mary & Emmett J. Finneran
Fong Family Fund of Oregon
Community Foundation
Julie Frantz
Kenneth Golsan
Eric Wan & Michele Goodman
William & Martha Hall
Hanover Boorom Charitable Fund
Laura & Rocky Henderson
Jonathan & Jennifer Hill
Molly Hiro & Lars Erik Larson
Holmgren Family Giving Fund
Tony Hopson & Carla Penn-Hopson
Mitchell S. Jackson
Shobha Jetmalani & Alex Burt
Peter Johnson
Alan Jung
Eva Kripalani
Paula Kurshner
Ronni Lacroute
Jenny & Carter MacNichol
Kathryn & Tim Mahaffy
Molly McCabe
Brenda L. Meltebeke & Scott K. Stuart
Kate Merrill
Susan & Peter Mersereau
Lora Meyer
*Deceased
Philip Miller & Colleen Cain
Georgina Miltenberger
Meghan Moran & Kirk Masterson
Deanna & Wilfried Mueller-Crispin
Laura Murphy
James Murray
Cabe and Brittany Nicksic
Amy O’Neill & Larry Staver
Josh Oliva
Wendy Beth Oliver
Judy Peterman
Nancy & Mike Phillips
Nancy & Dick Ponzi
Jon Raymond & Emily Chenoweth
Michael & Judy Rompa
Kelly Russell
Marjorie Sandor & Tracy Daugherty
Jennifer Schuberth & John Urang
Marcy & Richard* Schwartz
Pamela Smith Hill
Cynthia Snyder Fellows
Anna Truxes & Blue Young
Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust
Chabre Vickers
Stephanie & John Volkman
Kristi Wallace Knight & Eric Wallace
Kristin & Nicholas Walrod
Bryan Wieden
Tim Williams
Janet Macomber Williamson
Kathleen L. Wilson
Steven & Deborah Hewitt Wynne
Dr. Candace Young
Morton & Audrey* Zalutsky
$500+
Geri Abere
Angela Allen & Jan van Santen
Donald Andersen
Robert S. & Julia Ball
Danielle Beauvais
Kim & Daniel Bissell
Kim & Randy Boehm
Tom Booth & Megan Holden
Larry & Marie Brigham
Martha Brooke
Karyle Butcher
Christine Carr
Timothy Crippen & Laura Jordan
Gustavo Cruz
Karen & Matthew De Benedetti
Shelley Devine
Michael Donohue
Kelly Douglas & Eric Schoenstein
India Downes-Le Guin
Ken & Annie Edwards
Monica Enand & Sanjay Natarajan
David & Kendra Farris
Roshan Fernando
Miriam Feuerle
Dan Field
Edmund Frank & Eustacia Su
Ruth Frankel
Mark Frinell
Sheryl Fullerton
Colleen Gardner
Laura Gordon
The Gulliver Habel
Family Foundation
Candace A. Haines
Albert Horn & Nancy Goodwin
Styx Hummel
David Irving
Lauren Isaac
Barbara Jennings & Richard Teutsch
Sara & Stephen* Ledoux
Angel & Wendy Lopez
Jane Maland
Rosemary Mannix
Pete McDowell
Jenny McGuire
Nancy McKimens & Grant Ritchie
Anne & Michael Miller
Sarah Miller Meigs & Andrew Meigs
David Millman
Arthur Momjian
Susan Moore & Phil Ottum
Marjory Morford
Timothy Morgan
Anne Marie Murphy
Nicki Nadolny
Neilsen Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation
Denise Norris
Vailey Oehlke
Barbara Pallari
Bonnie & Pete Reagan
Patricia Reser
Prudence Roberts
Alysa Rose & David Finkelman
Charlotte Rubin
Carol Schnitzer Lewis
Sarah Schubert
Robyn Shuey
Nell & William Simkoff
Ellen Singer and Eamon Molloy
Merri Souther Wyatt
Dedrick Sprick
Lisa Stevens
Ann M Stinson
Kathleen Swift
Karin Taylor
Linda Taylor
Jane E. Unger
Alice Vaux
Eric & Elsa Vines
Mabsie Walters
Debra Weekley
Jennifer Whitten
Lorie Wigle
Julie R. Wilson
Aaron & Jennifer Wines
Katheryn Zabrocki
Zenith Tzedakah Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation
$250+
Anonymous
Kassie Alderson & Michael Ward
Betsy Amster & Barry Glassner
Caitlin Baggott Davis
Lori Bauman
Tim & Lisa Bazemore
Mayno Blanding
Colleen & Richard Blohm
Anne M. Booth
Rachel & Kevin Brink
Elizabeth Brown
Pamela Brown & Wayne Potter
Larry Bruton
Amanda Bullock & Justin Taylor
Michael R. Campbell
Elizabeth Carnes
Luke & Zoë Carpenter
Peyton Chapman
Becky Chinn
Brian Christiansen
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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS (CONTINUED)
Maria & Mike Cohen
Liana Colombo
Bonnie B. Comfort, PhD
Joan Corcoran
Gail Crider
Ali Davis
Marvin & Abby Dawson
Ashleigh de Villiers
The Diffely Family —
Tom, Alice, Celia, and Stuart
Donna Dunlap
Amy Edwards
Kathie E. England
Pam A. Erickson
Hannah Femling
Bobbie Foster
Tuni Garrigues
Elizabeth Gemmill
Elaine Gilbert
Glen Giovannetti
Katie Gold
Elizabeth Grulke
Heather Guthrie
Charles Hale
James Hampton
Mary Patt Hawthorne
Janie & Gary Hibler
Mariam Higgins
Joe Hull & Elicia Harrell
William & Paula Inwood
Jill Jarrett
*Deceased
Laura Jones & David Livermore
Mai Kiigemagi
James Knoll
BettyLou Koffel
Heesue Kwak
James. D Lang & Sally Lang
Linda & Steve Leslie
F. Jackson Lewis III & Niamh Lewis
Chris Mack
Kathryn Madison & Jeffrey Wertz
Richard & Elizabeth Marantz
Oscar Mayer
Michael & Sylvia McGregor
Ronald Mitchell & Amy Reiss
David Morganstern
Kari Morin
Paul Mueller
Carolyn Murphy-Brown
Nerdy 30’s Ladies of Portland
Jane O’Scannlain & Mike Miller
Jo Ellen Osterlind
Douglas & Bridget Otto
Charles Pankey
Katie Peterson
Rachel & Paul Phillips
Judith Ranton
Wayne & Karen Rembold
Karen & Cal Reno
Philippa Ribbink
T. J. Richter
Caroline & Brad Roberts
Rosemarie F. Rosenfeld
John & Teri Rowan
Katherine Sammons
Catherine Samson
Charles Sanderson
Martha Sandstead
Lesly Sanocki & Manish Chandhok
Donna Shu* & Tom Kane
Shirley Skidmore & Ron Quant
Francis Sladen
Chelsea Smith
Shauna Smith
Martha Soltesz
Karis Stoudamire-Phillips
Greg & Martha Struxness
Nancy Sullivan
Christine Tell
Stephanie Vardavas & Mike Radway
Michael J. Viera
Sally Walker
Sean Watkins
Patricia Welch
Alison Williams Colman & Laurence Colman
Carolyn & Martin Winch
Vince & Patty Wixon
Cecily Wong
Peter Wong
IN MEMORY OF
Brian Booth
Nancy Bragdon
Walt Curtis
Cai Emmons
Lillian Thayer San Filippo
Rob Hill
Ramiza Koya
Julie Mancini
Julia N. Marshall
Irving H. Perlmutter
Dan Wieden
Dr. Les Zettergren
IN HONOR OF Jill Abere
Emilia Cafiso
Ginnie Cooper
Susan Hammer*
Dorothy D. Hirsch*
Susheela Jayapal
Andrew Proctor
Jill Reno
Halle Sadle
Carrie Watson
Jackie Willingham
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THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS
BUSINESSES
$20,000+
First Tech Federal Credit Union
Janet Hoffman & Associates LLC
The Standard
$10,000+
A to Z Wineworks
Kell, Alterman & Runstein L.L.P.
NW Natural
Powell’s Books
Stoel Rives LLP
$5,000+
Amazon Literary Partnership
Angeli Law Group
Bank of the West
Bloomsbury Publishing
Broadway Books
Powell’s Books
TooFar Media
Yakima Plastics Design & Supply
ZGF Architects
$1,000+
The Benevity Community Impact Fund
Charles Schwab
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
D.A. Davidson & Co.
Fidelity Charitable
Tin House Books
Tonkon Torp LLP
FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT
$25,000+
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation
James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation
The Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts
PGE Foundation
The Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and the Arts Education & Access Fund.
$10,000+
Henry L. Hillman, Jr. Foundation
The Kinsman Foundation
Prosper Portland
Raymond Family Foundation
Zidell Family Foundation
$5,000+
The Franklin & Dorothy Piacentini Charitable Trust
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust
Wheeler Foundation
$1,000+
First Interstate Foundation
Fong Family Fund of Oregon Community Foundation
Holmgren Family Giving Fund
Matthew and Christine Casebeer Family Fund
Multnomah County Cultural Coalition
Newell Family Charity Fund
Oregon Community Foundation
PM - Give Back Fund
$500+
Edna L. Holmes Literary Arts Fund of Oregon
Community Foundation
The Holzman Foundation, Inc
Irwin Foundation
The Johnson Family Foundation
Oregon Health Authority
Joan Cirillo & Roger Cooke
The Eberwein Family
Josie G. Mendoza & Hugh Mackworth
Maurice & Dori King
Lana & Chris Finley
Edwards Lienhart Family Foundation
The Wheeler Family Foundation
BMO Private Bank, Broadway Books, Nike Women’s Group, Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace, Prosper Portland, and TooFar Media
WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THE GENEROUS IN-KIND SUPPORT PROVIDED BY THESE PARTNERS
Tim & Mary Boyle
Benchmark Resorts & Hotels, Et Fille Wines, First Congregational United Church of Christ, Grove Atlantic, Matzinger Davies, Multnomah Whisk{e}y Library, The Old Church, PDX Jazz, Ponzi Vineyards, Portland’5 Centers for the Arts, Winderlea Vineyards, and W.W. Norton & Co.
Individuals at Portland Book Festival hug each other
SPECIAL THANKS TO
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Alano Club, Astoria Writers Guild, Breena Bard, Prakruti Bhatt, Bigfoot Poetry Slam, Kim Bissell, Blue Mountain Community College, Broadway Books, Cannon Beach NW writers’ series, Kaitlin Carpenter, Frank Dadulla, Eastern Oregon University, Jacque Fitzgerald, Julia Gaskill, Chris Goff, Tyler Hobbs, Dori King, Maurice King, Hilary Kissell, Linfield University, Live Wire Radio, McMinnville Public Library, Jessica Meza-Torres, Anis Mojgani, Multnomah County Library, National Book Foundation, Mindy Nettifee, Liz Olufson, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Oregon Town Car, PEN America, Kevin Peterson, Portland Parks Foundation, Powell’s Books, Emilly Prado, Mary Rodeback, Lance Rossi, Mona Schraer, Slamlandia, Southern Wasco County Library, Tender Loving Empire, Armin Tolentino, Wheeler High School, Nanea Woods, Write Around Portland, Winta Yohannes
VOLUNTEERS
Avis Adams, Alexandra Adler, Maudie Ainsworth, Althea Alabab, Matthew Albertson, Jamie Alden, Ana Alfaro, Jane Ancel, Sheri Anderson, Cheri Arthur, Elizabeth Azar, Malea Baer, Ana Bane, Patrick Barber, Marie Bates, Rachel Bernstein, Sarah Berry, Amanda Bird, Donovan Bisbee, Amy Boehnke, Brina Bolanz, Kristin Bork, Sarah Bossenbroek, Phoenix Bourgeois, Nico Branderhorst, Karla Branson, Jane Braunger, Bianca Breland, Beth Brown, Garrett Paul Brown, Tony Brown, Chloe Brunak, Jesse Buck, Rex Bull, Beverly Burke, Diane Bush, Dana Buttler, Cynthia Cambier, Peter Cambier, Lilly Cano, Kerwin Carambot, Ian Carlisle, Kaitlin Carpenter, Madyson Carpenter, Cynthia Castaneda, Sara Casten, Jamie Catlin, Phil Chan, Donna Childs, Melanie Chu, Steph Cleary, Richard Cohen, Jim Cohn, Janet Collier, Clara Collins, Anne Conway, Holly Cook, John Cooney, Erin Cooper, Stacy Cormier, Elizabeth Costello, Tonia Cottrell, Cathy Cromett, Rachel Crouch, Mary Cusick, Wendy Cutts, Kat Darby, Jill Darley-Vanis, Shelby Davis, Erika Degens, Jennifer Delgado-Garcia, Darren Demetre, Kathy Diamond, Lillia Diaz, Emily Dickerson, Alex Dolan, Alexa Doorman, Cynthia K Doran, Caroline Drew, Allen Duarte, Kimberly Duncan, Rebecca Durfee, Angie Ebba, Sara Ellman, Abby Engers, Jay Enghauser, Grant Engrav, David Epps, Nora Ericson, Emely Espinoza, Hannah Esrock, Jen Eswonia, Jodi Farrera, Jennifer Farris, Jessica Fauble, Rita Fawcett, Alison Felici, Elyse Fenton, Erica Fernandez, Elaine Ferrell-Burns, Emily Fiocco, Brynn Fischer, Cheryl Fischer, Tiffany Fischer, Jacque Fitzgerald, Maia Fleck,
Eleanor Flores, Karen Fogg, Wendy Forrester, Elyse Foster, György Foxall, Leighann Franson, Kelly Fraser, Ashley French-Roberts, Daila Galicia Zuniga, Zöe Gamell Brown, Bob Geddes, Elizabeth Gewecke, Emily Gillespie, Jennifer Glowacki, Claire Goins, Claire Goldbloom, Elena Gorbatiuc, Laura Gordon, Lisa Grab, Jamara Grant, Priscilla Gray, Carol Greenough, Aimee Gregg, Jacqueline Gregoire, Daryl Grenz, Alicia Grimshaw, Heather Grossmann, Kyle Gullickson, Jen Guzman, Rebecca Haas, Kristin Hagen, Kristin Hailstone, Jonathan Hall, Jan Hand, Honora Hanley, Sydney Hanover, Tiff Harker, Tai Harmon, Zeke Harrington, Sue Harvey, Alixandrea Hawkins, Nancy Hayes, Shelby Hemphill, Kaleigh Henderson, Robin Herrera, Diane Herschleb, Cara Hersh, Ashley Hilfer, Mary E. Hirsch, Laura Horowitz, John Huston, Roger Ikert, Apricot Irving, Anna Jackson, Kaitlyn Jackson, Judy Jacobs, Ashley Jemes, Judy Jiang, Stephanie Johnson Lawson, Elizabeth Johnston, Jessica Johnston, Michael Jonas, Lee Anna Jones, Joanne Kahn, Ezra Kaplan, Alison Kastner, Melody Kayser, Lisa Keefe, Dede Kelley, Pam KelleyDockter, Michael Kelly, Shaune Kelly, Miles Kenny, Carolyn Kerr, Alireza Khanaki, Jessica Kirkland, Benjamin Kirkpatrick, Brooke Klein, Matthew Knutson, Kimberly A Koch, Annie Koh, Kristie Kolesnikov, Lynn Labasan, Riley Lambert, Ryder Landau, Sarah LaPrade, Aubrey Leahy, Stefani Leavitt, Irene Lee, Kelly Lenox, Brandon Lenzi, Kirsten Leonard, Aundrea Leppelman, Esther Lerman Freeman, Rui Lin, Jen Lind, Valerie Liptak, Patty Lofgren, Sally Loomis, Alexis Lopez, Lucy Lord, Johnna Loreen, Toby Luongo, Sarah Mace, Mary MacFarland, Lauren MacKenzie, Arden Madrone, Surabhi Mahajan, Ashleigh Maier, Christina Malango, Jane Manchee, Alissa Mann, Amanda Mather, Lisa Mattingly, Penny McDonald, Katie McRae, Bonnie Meltzer, Stephanie Mendivil, Kirsten Merrell Kippen, Vanessa Micale, Chukwudaru Michael, Claire Miller, Deb Miller Landau, Mai Lynn Miller Nguyen, Marissa Minichello, Natalie Mitchell, Tamara Morey, Susan Morningstar, John Morrison, Crystal Mouzon, Aaron Munoz, Ana Muñoz, Olivia Muñoz, Larissa Nakagawa, Kelsye Nelson, Renee Ness, Todd Ness, Sarah Neudeck, Dani Nicholson, Nicky Nicholson-Klingerman, Rick Nobleman, Kate Nootenboom, Julia Oppenheimer, Nybe Otterstone, Samantha Paganelli, Maggie Pahos, Allison Paluso, Lea Pandozzi, Lillie Parker, Veronica Parker, Becky Parker Geist, Karen Pate, Ryan Patterson, Cynthia Peele, Zephyr Peeps, Kim Pengelly, Mallory Pennington, Carmelita Perrien Naccarato,
Rosanne Petersen, Juliana Petra, Corryn Pettingill, Sebastian Phillips, Sean Pingley, Jane Pinkowski, Riley Pittenger, Jonathan Potkin, Alan Potts, Judy Potts, Kale Prentiss, Shiaian Price, Katerina Puglisi, Martha Ragland, Meg Ready, Rick Rees, Caroline Reul, Ellen Reuler, Olivia Reyes-Becerra, Marissa Ricchetti, Kaylen Rich, Patricia Rimmer, Felipa Riscajche, Kate Ristau, Joy Ritchie, Marshal Rittenger, Vincent Romett, Michelle Rosa Bouza, Judith Rosenberg, Kyna Rubin, Mary Ruble, Lilli Rudine, Wendy Russell, Colleen Ryan, Madeline Ryan, Monica Sack, Malia Sanford, Catherine Saunders Hartoch, Gaynell Schenck, Amelia Schenk, Bonnie Schneider, Angela Scott, Liz Scott, Julia Seiple, Vanessa Sena, Hayley Shanks, Maribeth Shea, Rosemary Sheets, Carol ShermanRogers, Courtney Sherwood, Emily Shetler, Robert Silverman, Aidan Sivers-Boyce, Taylor Skansi, Chelsea Slaven-Davis, Emma-Quin Smith, Hailey Smith, Kira Smith, Julie Snyder, Alan Soles, Vanora St Clair, Ellen Stearns, Kayley Stephens, Kristen Stowell, Alyssa Strom, Allison Stuart, Kyla Sweet, Lulu T., Alanna Taylor, Joy Teson, Cooper Theodore, Greg Thomas, Daniel Thornton, Jessica Tierney, Michael Toczko, Megan Tomson, Linda Tucker, Cheyla Urbano-Santos, Jen van Arkel, Stefani Vandenberg, Heidi VandenHooff, Andrew Vandervelde, Nancy Vandervelde, Rachita Vasan, Francisco Velazquez, Elizabeth Vogler, Claudia von Hammmerstein, Nancy Von Seggern, Laurie Walker, Peter Wallace, Jeff Wallach, Meg Walsh, Marjorie Waniata, Judy Ward, Meg Ward, Dawn Weaver, Rebecca Wetherby, Sarah Wexler, Donna Wiench, Tala Wilder, Alison Wiley, Allegra Willhite, Hayley Wilson, Heidi Wilson, Shannon Witman, Bettina Wolochuk, LuAnn Wu, Stephanie Yager, Summer Yasoni, Sharon Yee, Tiffany Yelton Bram, Sam Yugler, Gail Zuro
WRITING TEACHERS
Stephanie Adams-Santos, Kathleen Alcott, Steve Almond, Emily Arrow, Rachel Attias, Frances Badalamenti, Erica Berry, Erica Lee Braverman, Emily Chenoweth, Matthew Dickman, Stacey D. Flood, Gabriela Denise Frank, Samandar Ghaus, Meg Hayertz, Sandra Hunter, Perrin Kerns, Benjamin Kessler, Michelle Kicherer, Hillary Leftwich, Cari Luna, Emme Lund, Margaret Malone, Deb Miller Landau, James Napoli, Shilo Niziolek, Wendy Noonan, Jay Ponteri, Emilly Prado, Radhika Sharma, Kim Stafford, Paige Thomas, Armin Tolentino, Naomi Ulsted, Jane Wong
DELVE GUIDES
Kesha Ajose-Fisher, Sara Atwood, James Cohn, Ülker Gökberk, Bennett Gilbert, Sara Guest, Hannah Kim, Christopher Lord, Benjamin McPherson Ficklin, Coleman Stevenson, Christopher Zinn
PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATORS
Allison Ackerman, Whitney Alfrey, Paige Battle, Josh Bott, Ilsa Bruer, Zach Carroll, Ayn Frazee, Amanda Graham, Jamie Incorvia, Cassie Lanzas, Carl Larson, Lori Lieberman, Leigh Morlock, Jennifer Owens, Charles Sanderson, Bryan Smith, Nancy Sullivan, Em Winokur, Alethea Work
PUBLIC SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
Erika Beddoe Whitlock, Peyton Chapman, Ayesha Coning, Chris Frazier, Bonnie Hobson, James McGee, Molly Ouche, KD Parman, Drake Shelton, Adam Skyles, Jo Ann Wadkins, Curtis Wilson Jr.
WITS WRITERS & APPRENTICES
Joliene Adams, Brian Benson, Erica Berry, Monika Cassel, Brennan DeFrisco, Caitlin Delohery, Ed Edmo, Zoë Gamell Brown, Judy Jiang, Robin Lanehurst, Meaghan Loraas, Amy Minato, Nicky Nicholson-Klingerman, Jennifer Perrine, Bruce Poinsette, Mark Pomeroy, Emilly Prado, Meg Ready, Dey Rivers, Alan Saint Clark, Jen Shin, Paige Thomas, CJ Wiggan, Hannah Withers
INTERNS
Ethan Craigmile, Jordan Ducree, Joaquin Fernandez, Ada Hallstrom, Jillian Jackson, Yomari Lobo, Jai Milks, Ethan Plunkett, Laura Renckens, Anic Ulrope
FESTIVAL STAFF
Kassie Alderson, Denver Olmstead
FESTIVAL SUPPORT FROM
Annie Bloom’s Books, Benchmark Hotels, Block Party Barricades, Broadway Books, Dark Eden Security, Fern Exhibitor Services, First Congregational United Church of Christ, Green Bean Books, The Judy Kafoury Center for Youth Arts, Live Wire Radio, National Book Foundation, The Old Church, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Papertrees Creative, Portland Art Museum and PAM CUT, Portland Parks Foundation, Portland’5 Centers for the Arts, Powell’s Books, Revel Events, Write Around Portland
WHO WE ARE
(DURING THE 2023–2024 YEAR)
LITERARY ARTS STAFF
Andrew Proctor, Executive Director
Alexei Bien
Amanda Bullock
Bethany Byrd-Hill
Lydah DeBin
Rui Dun
Jennifer Gurney
Olivia Jones Hall
april joseph
Joanna Laird
Brandon Lenzi
Hope Levy
Alexis Lopez
Jessica Meza-Torres
Susan Moore
Jules Ohman
Denver Olmstead
Liz Olufson
Leah O’Sullivan
Allyson Quirico
Meg Ready
Laura Renckens
Juliette Rousseve
Jyoti Roy
Alberto Sveum
Alexa Winik
LITERARY ARTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bob Speltz, Chair
Joan Cirillo
Ginnie Cooper
Gustavo Cruz
Amy Donohue
Lana Finley
Sarah Gibbon
Jonathan Hill
Mary E. Hirsch
Janet Hoffman
Mitchell S. Jackson
Susheela Jayapal
Maurice King
Anis Mojgani
Corrine Oishi
Amy Prosenjak
Dennis Steinman
Geoffrey Tichenor
Chabre Vickers
Kristin Walrod
Renée Watson
Marcia Wood
STRUNK & WHITE SOCIETY
An honorary society of distinguished advisors
Nancy Bragdon*
Larry Colton
Ginnie Cooper
Jodi Delahunt Hubbell
Theo Downes-Le Guin
Bart Eberwein
Brian Gard
Bob Geddes
Molly Gloss
Carrie Hoops
Cecelia Huntington
Susheela Jayapal
Brenda Meltebeke
Jessica Mozeico
Diane Ponti
Michael Powell
Amy Prosenjak
Per Ramfjord
Halle Sadle
Steven Taylor
Jackie Willingham
Tom Wood
Steve Wynne
DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Ginnie Cooper, Chair
Jill Abere
Joan Cirillo
Lana Finley
Elizabeth Gewecke
Sara Guest
Jenny MacNichol
Corrine Oishi
Katherine O’Neil
Andrew Proctor
Amy Prosenjak
Mary Ruble
Bob Speltz
Chabre Vickers
Jackie Willingham
Ben Wood
Marcia Wood
PATRON ADVISORY COUNCIL
Marcia Wood, Chair
Jill Abere
Kim Bissell
Marian Creamer
Rebecca DeCesaro
Marilyn Epstein
Julie Frantz
Mackenzie Harrington
Susan Hathaway-Marxer
LITERARY ARTS IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY:
Shobha Jetmalani
Paula Kurshner
Phillip M. Margolin
Katherine McCoy
Carolyn McKinney
Vanessa McLaughlin
Lora Meyer
Diedra Miner
Abby Nixt
Katherine O’Neil
Ramón Pagán
Erin Patterson
Nancy Ponzi
Robyn Shuey
Roslyn Sutherland
Margaret Tuchmann
Kristi Wallace Knight
Kim Weyler
PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Sarah Gibbon, Chair
Vera Ahiyya
Emily Arrow
Edward Ash-Milby
Kathi Inman Berens
Julie Bunker
Joan Cirillo
Liz Crain
Jaleesa Johnston
B. Frayn Masters
Kimiko Matsuda
Katherine Morgan
Sara Ortiz
Ramón Pagán
Craig Popelars
Sarah Rothenfluch
Alberto Sveum
Alicia Tate
Sage Van Wing
Kim Weyler
Josh Wong
Charity Yoro
Gail Zuro
PROGRAMS FOR WRITERS
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Anis Mojgani, Chair
Nancy Boutin
Julie Dixon
Omar El Akkad
Abbey Gaterud
Cecelia Huntington
Scott Korb
Linda Leslie
Meghan Moran
Jyothi Natarajan
Corrine Oishi
Dennis Steinman
Armin Tolentino
YOUTH PROGRAMS ADVISORY COUNCIL
Maurice King, Chair
Sandra J. Childs
Jacque Dixon
Andre Goodlow
Jonathan Hill
Mary E. Hirsch
Briana Linden
André Middleton
Anis Mojgani
Joanna Rose
Karena Salmond
Nancy Sullivan
Tristan Tarwater
Renée Watson
Tracey Wyatt
VISION PLAN COMMITTEE
Amy Donohue, Co-Chair
Corinne Oishi, Co-Chair
Joan Cirillo
Ginnie Cooper
Theo Downes-Le Guin
Mitchell S. Jackson
Susheela Jayapal
Maurice King
Jan Oliva
Amy Prosenjak
Jon Raymond
Jill Sherman
Bob Speltz
Dennis Steinman
Chabre Vickers
Marcia Wood
Tom Wood
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Dennis Steinman, Chair
Gustavo Cruz
Rebecca DeCesaro
Lana Finley
Sarah Gibbon
Mary E. Hirsch
Jonathan Levine
Amy Prosenjak
Bob Speltz
Jackie Willingham
Carl Wilson
*Deceased
$1,000,000+ RAISED AT BOOKMARK 2023
Thank you to the generous donors who raised more than $1,000,000 at our annual Bookmark Gala on October 5, 2023.
DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
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INCOME
■ Ticket sales: 30%
■ Classes: 6%
Contributed income
■ Individual: 38%
■ Corporate: 7%
■ Foundation: 10%
■ In-kind: 2%
■ Government: 7%
1,214 people contributed $1,339,965 in gifts and pledges. THANK YOU!
EXPENSES
■ Programming: 61%
■ Administration and office overhead: 24%
■ Fundraising: 15%
“Literary Arts has helped fuel my students’ literary swagger, seeing themselves having a voice that matters in the world and deserves to be heard by audiences far and wide.”
— Charles Sanderson, Collaborating Teacher & Supporter
28,000+ individuals enjoyed Literary Arts programming.
Ami Patel 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient
I dream I don’t kill my garden
I palm my soil and it blooms the truth. I have enough for dinner, a salty curry with roasted squash, dark bitter greens, and of course, garlic. I hug a somber tree and it perks apples like pink balloons. I wake up thirsty to a swaying bhajan of rain, which means my seedlings are ready. Butterflies and red-necked birds come back, gravelly carpenter bees too. They don’t sting. I cascade salt to shrivel the dark bulge of slugs, confound cabbage moths with a single wave. My grandma visits and her cataract-glazed eyes clear like a late spring field. She sees it all: the stippled sword ferns, puckering mint, dusty purple beans staircasing to sky. She is proud, even though she won’t say it. But she can’t deny I have always been hers, sand-blasted blood and desert-cradled bone. Her stubborn root. For her, I demand lush. My harvest will be a succulent bridge, and we won’t have to feign full anymore.