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Oregon Legacy Series brings authors to Lincoln City
Lincoln City’s longstanding literary series, Oregon Legacy, will bring authors live and in person to Driftwood Public Library on four Sunday afternoons in February.
The series opens on Sunday, Feb. 5, with a visit from Callum Angus, a trans writer and editor living in Portland. He is the author of the story collection “A Natural History of Transition,” published in 2021 and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and an Oregon Book Award/Ken Kesey Award in Fiction. He has received fellowships from Lambda Literary and Signal Fire Foundation for the Arts, has presented research at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers and was a 2018 Writer-in-Residence at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest.
Angus holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a BA in geography from Mount Holyoke College and has taught writing at Smith College, UMass Amherst and Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. He has also worked in publicity for Catapult Books, Counterpoint Press, and Soft Skull Press, and edits the literary journal smoke and mold.
Angus has worked as an advocate with the Trans Youth Equality Foundation, where he helped transgender youth and their families navigate the world.
On Feb. 12, Connie Soper and Carey Taylor will visit Lincoln City. Soper is a poet and hiker who finds inspiration by walking along the beach and composing poems in her head. She is the author of the poetry collection “A Story Interrupted,” published last September, as well as a non-fiction book, “Exploring the Oregon Coast Trail.” She is hard at work on her second collection of poetry. She divides her time between Portland and Manzanita.
Taylor is the author of “The Lure of Impermanence,” published in 2018. Her poetry has appeared in regional, national and international publications and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Born in Bandon, she has lived her entire life at the western edges of Oregon and Washington. She has a Master of Arts degree in School Counseling and currently resides in Portland.
Oregon Legacy continues on Feb. 19 with a visit from writer Rachel King, the author of “People Along the Sand,” a novel set in a small town on the Oregon Coast at the time of the Oregon Beach Bill. More recently, she published a collection of linked short stories, “Bratwurst Haven.” Her short stories have appeared in One Story, North American Review, Green Mountains Review, Northwest Review and elsewhere and have been favorably compared to Alice Munro and Tobias Wolf. A graduate of the University of Oregon and West Virginia University, she lives in her hometown of Portland.
The series wraps up on Feb. 26 with a visit from Mark Yaconelli, a writer, retreat leader, community builder, spiritual director and “storycatcher.” He is the founder and executive director of The Hearth. Previously, he co-founded and served as program director for the Center for Engaged Compassion where he helped develop a unique set of practices and training programs for assisting individuals, organizations and communities in cultivating compassion.
Yaconelli is the author of six books, most recently “Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us,” for which Annie Lamott wrote the foreword. His other books include “The Gift of Hard Things” and “Wonder, Fear, and Longing.”
Profiles of Yaconelli’s work have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, BBC News, ABC World News Tonight and the Washington Post Online. He has an MA from the Graduate Theological Union and a graduate diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction from San Francisco Theological Seminary. He lives in Southern Oregon.
Each presentation begins at 3 pm. Driftwood Public Library is located at 801 SW Hwy. 101 in Lincoln City. For more information, go to driftwoodlib.org or call 541-996-1242.