M. F. McAuliffe
Born and educated in Adelaide and Melbourne, M. F. McAuliffe taught technical writing, media analysis and basic TV production to engineering and applied science students before working in the U.S. as a political pollster, technical editor, and librarian. She made her US publishing debut in Damon Knight’s Clarion Awards and subsequently published fiction and verse in The Adelaide Review, Overland, Australian Short Stories, Jacket and Cordite.
In 2002 she co-founded the award-winning, Portland-based Gobshite Quarterly, where she continues as contributing editor. In 2007 she co-edited Broken Word: The Alberta Street Anthology Volume Two.
Michael Shay
Michael Shay has been a working commercial and advertising photographer for over 30 years. He is co-founder of Polara Studio in Portland, Oregon.
He received a Master Of Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary and Experimental Art from San Francisco State (CEIA) and studied in both the Undergraduate and Graduate Iowa Writers Workshop in poetry. He co-founded Post Mortem Photography, a performance art collaborative that combined the spoken word with photography and music. He performed at many galleries and events including the San Francisco International Poetry and Performance Festival at the San Francisco Art Institute, The Photographic Image Gallery and the Berkley Art Center. He also taught photography at the Academy of Art College.
In his mid-thirties his personal art was put on the back burner while he was building a business and helping raise two children. Six years ago he started writing again and has since co-edited “Broken Word Vol. 1 and Vol.2” (The Alberta Street Anthology).
His works has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cape Rock, Flyway, Lullwater Review, Nimrod International Journal and The South Carolina Review, among others.
Wayne R. Flower
Wayne R. Flower is a visual artist, musician and writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. He has been creating things since he was a child, found his way into punk rock as a teenager, playing in bands of various genres over the years (State Of Confusion, Treepeople, The Halo Benders, among others). In the late 90′s he found himself in the tech business, a career swallowed him for 10 years and whisked him from Seattle to Boston, where he languished for 5 years. Upon finding his life unfulfilling, he moved to Portland, Oregon (a locale he had desired to live in for years). After attending open mics around town and befriending many talented local writers, he began to write again. While he is uncomfortable calling himself a ‘poet’, he will say he is ‘one who writes’. His writing is often full of gravity, and of imagery pulled from the desert river valley in Boise, Idaho where he grew up. Death is also a common theme, as it has been in his life (he has lost his parents and many friends). But don’t let that fool you. It is ultimately about life, for death is a reminder that we need to enjoy the ride while we are here.
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
