Natalie Serber
Author
Writers on the Edge
April 27, 7pm
Newport VAC

NATALIE SERBER
Provided by Writers on the Edge

Author Natalie Serber will appear at the April 27th meeting of Writers on the Edge. The reading/presentation will begin at 7pm at the Newport Visual Arts Center at Nye Beach, with questions from the audience following.

Natalie Serber is the author of the story collection, Shout Her Lovely Name, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) which was listed as a New York Times “Notable Book” for 2012 and as an Oregonian Top 10 Northwest Book for 2012. Her work has appeared in the print journals the New York Times, The Bellingham Review, Fourth Genre, and Gulf Coast, among others, and online at Hunger Mountain, The Rumpus, Culinate, 5 Chapters. She is the recipient of the Tobias Wolff Award, H.E. Francis Award, John Steinbeck Award, and a finalist mention for the Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award. Natalie received her MFA from Warren Wilson College. She teaches at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon. She is also working on a novel. Find out more at www.natalieserber.com

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Barbara Roberts
Oregon Governor 1991-1995

Former Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts will be January’s guest writer to speak at Writers on the Edge, a monthly forum for writers to explain their literary works and what went into them. Roberts’ book is entitled Up the Capitol Steps, A Woman’s March to the Governorship.

Barbara Roberts was Governor of Oregon from 1991-1995 and Oregon Secretary of State from 1985-1991. She was Director of the State and Local Government Executive Programs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and held a senior fellowship at the Harvard Women and Public Policy Program. Before her retirement in 2005, she served for five years as Associate Director of Leadership at Portland State University’s Hatfield School of Government.

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Elizabeth Eslami
Saturday, May 19 – 7 pm
The 3rd Saturday in May

Nye Beach Visual Arts Center
Show begins at 7 pm in the second floor meeting room of the Newport Visual Arts Center, located at 777 NW Beach Drive (across from the Nye Beach Turnaround). General admission is $6 at the door, students always admitted free. Light refreshments will be available.

Elizabeth Eslami is the author of the novel Bone Worship (Pegasus) about the complex relationship between an Iranian father and his Iranian-American daughter. Bone Worship is a stunning work that dares to explore the perilous intersection of familial and cultural mysteries, balancing the pull of tradition, the promise of the future, and all the possibilities in between.

Ms. Eslami’s essays, short stories, and travel writing have appeared in numerous publications, including The Millions, Fifty-Two Stories, Matador, and The Literary Review. She is also a regular contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. Her work will be featured in the forthcoming anthologies: Not in My Father’s House: An Anthology of Fiction By Iranian American Writers and Movie-Schooled: Writers on the Influence of Cinema. She’s currently at work on a collection of short stories and a second novel. You can visit her website at www.elizabetheslami.com.

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