Authors with whom we are working
Author List
MEGAN MCCLARD
Megan McClard is the author of LEAVINGS:memoir of a 1920s Hollywood Love Child, the story of her colorful upbringing and her late coming of age. LEAVINGS is available now! You can purchase it through all major online outlets, and through many independent online bookstore outlets, as well.
JUDY BLANKENSHIP
Judy Blankenship is co-editor of Tell Mother I’m in Paradise: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador, which was published in early 2022 by the University of Alabama Press. The Spanish language version of that book is available now (released October 15, 2022). You can purchase it through all major online outlets, and through many independent online bookstore outlets, as well.
KEN ANDERSON
ken anderson* is an anthropologist who has worked in the tech industry for the past thirty years, and is working on an experimental memoir tentatively entitled, She/He/We: a Memoir of Marriage with his partner, Anne McClard. Release date forthcoming.
SUSAN LYNN CLARK
Susan Lynn Clark is co-author of Women Caught in the Crossfire:One Woman’s Quest for Peace in the Midst of Civil War (release date, October 1, 2023), a first person memoir of fleeing and surviving civil war in South Sudan, as told by Abuk Jervas Makuac.
In late spring we will republish a graphic novel that Susan facilitated the creation of with James Disco and illustrator Niki Singleton, Echoes of the Lost Boys, which has gone out of print.
She holds a doctorate in humanities and a masters in linguistics.
ABUK JERVAS MAKUAC
Abuk Jervas Makuac is co-author of Women Caught in the Crossfire:One Woman’s Quest for Peace in the Midst of Civil War (release date, October 1, 2023), a memoir in which she recounts her family’s perilous flight from war-torn South Sudan. She has dedicated her life since then to teaching peace and supporting Sudanese women. Release date forthcoming in 2023.
ANDREW WILSON
Andrew Wilson is co-editor of Tell Mother I’m in Paradise: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador, which was published in early 2022 by the University of Alabama Press. The Spanish language version of that book is available now (released October 15, 2022). You can purchase it through all major online outlets, and through many independent online bookstore outlets, as well.
NANCY HENRY
Nancy Henry is co-author of This Rough Magic: At Home on the Columbia Slough (release date August 14, 2023), with her partner, Bruce Campbell. Previously she led a creative team that developed adult learning programs for AmeriCorps, VISTA and other community service efforts. Currently, she volunteers at a nonprofit, end-of-life care residence.
BRUCE CAMPBELL
Bruce Campbell is co-author of This Rough Magic: At Home on the Columbia Slough (release date August 14, 2023), with his partner, Nancy Henry. His YA novel, High Noon on Come Along Slough (release date August 30th, 2024) is a companion book to the first book in some respects—also focused on environmental issues on the slough.
He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he gardens, hikes the wilds, and writes short stories, novels, and nonfiction. Published in The Timberline Review, Fabula Press, and The Tishman Review, Bruce has won awards in Willamette Writers’ Kay Snow Fiction Contest, SFO Writing Contest, and the Tucson Festival of Books.
ANNE MCCLARD
Anne McClard is an anthropologist and the author of the novel Butterfly Dreams (release date August 31, 2023). Her second novel, Margaux and the Vicious Circle (September 30, 2024) is the first book in a series called The Margaux Chronicles.
She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she enjoys playing bluegrass music with her friends, playing mandolin and fiddle, and writing songs. She is also a co-founder of Aristata Press. This is her first novel.
SUZANNE LEZOTTE
Suzanne Lezotte, author of Raising Owen: An Extra-ordinary Memoir of Motherhood, tells the story of raising her son who has Down syndrome. An advocate for families dealing with raising children with special needs, she believes in full inclusion in education, and in everyday life for children and people with learning and chromosomal differences.
LIV MJELDE
Liv Mjelde is professor emeritus at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway, and author of a forthcoming book in translation tentatively called The Secret of the Scissors. A sociologist by training and specialist in relations between vocational and general education, her main research fields was the gender divisions of labour in occupational fields. She has published in several languages and has been the keynote speaker in many international conferences.
SCOTT HARKER
Scott Harker is the author of a forthcoming nonfiction book tentatively titled Don’t Shoot the Piano Tuner—The Secret Life of Pianos. In it, he takes the reader on a colorful journey from the Woods to the Concert Stage with anecdotes of artists he has worked for and the peculiarities of pianos. Scott has been tuning and caring for pianos for over forty years. His life has been an inquiry into the inner workings and musical soul of the piano.
