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Writer, with Kids: Javier Moreno

Javier Moreno, author of Lo definitivo y lo temporal (2008), Inframundo (2010) and Despegue (coming in 2014) Age of kid: 17 months. What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? My writing

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Writer, with Kids: Orli Van Mourik

Devotion and Distraction Orli Van Mourik Almost exactly eleven weeks ago my daughter, Margot, was born howling. The midwife placed her slippery pink body on my chest, still shimmering, and she immediately hoisted her head up to look at me:

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Writer, with Kids: Sean Ferrell

Sean Ferrell, author of Man in the Empty Suit and Numb I found my son destroying a drawing. He’d worked on it for at least half an hour, one of his monster creations with a thousand eyes on a hundred

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Writer, with Kids: Wendy Chin-Tanner

Wendy Chin-Tanner, author of Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), a poetry collection Age of kid: 6 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? When I was writing professionally before I became

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Writer, with Kids: Wendy Wisner

Wendy Wisner, author of: Epicenter (2004), Another Place of Rocking (2010), and Morph and Bloom (2013) Age of kids: 6 and 1 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Before I

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Writer, with Kids: Kevin Sampsell

Kevin Sampsell, author of: This Is Between Us Kevin will be reading at Powell’s City of Books this Friday, 11/15, at 7:30pm. Hope to see you there! (And get there early. It’s guaranteed to be an overflow crowd.) Age of

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Writer, with Kids: Rob Yardumian

Rob Yardumian, author of The Sound of Songs Across the Water Rob will be reading (and playing songs) from The Sound of Songs Across the Water on Tuesday, November 12, at 7:00pm at Annie Bloom’s in Multnomah Village. Age of

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Writer, with Kids: Gayle Brandeis

Gayle Brandeis, author of of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, Dictionary Poems, the novels The Book of Dead Birds, which won Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, Self Storage

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Writer, with Kids: Sunny Bleckinger

Sunny Bleckinger worked for five years as a journalist and editor in the Netherlands. He currently hosts the Soft Show reading series and he’s working on his first novel for the third time. Age of kid: 5   What was

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Writer, with Kids: John Roderick

John Roderick: songwriter and singer/guitarist for The Long Winters. His film and music reviews have appeared in The Stranger and he is a frequent contributor to Seattle Weekly. (You might want to check out his most recent article, “Punk Rock Is

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