Oregon Book Awards Author Tour Baker City: Becky Ellis, Rachel King, Steven Moore, Charlie J. Stephens

Becky Ellis, daughter of a World War II combat sergeant and veteran of a war fought at home, is the author of Little Avalanches. She believes in the transformational power of storytelling and facilitates writing workshops in underheard communities with Write Around Portland. A longtime Oregonian, she has raised three daughters in Portland.

Rachel King is the author of Bratwurst Haven: Stories, the novel People along the Sand and two poetry chapbooks. Her short stories have appeared in One Story, North American Review, Northwest Review, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere.

Steven Moore is a 2024 Oregon Book Award finalist in creative nonfiction for The Distance From Slaughter County: Lessons From Flyover Country. He is also the author of The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier, which received the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction. He is originally from southeast Iowa.

Charlie J. Stephens is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race writer from the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Salem, Oregon, Charlie has lived all over the U.S. as a bike messenger, wilderness guide, high school English teacher, and seasonal shark diver (for educational purposes only). Resident of Port Orford on the southern Oregon coast, they are the owner of Sea Wolf Books & Community Writing Center. Charlie’s short fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Best Small Fictions Anthology, New World Writing, Original Plumbing/Feminist Press, and elsewhere. They are the author of the novel A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest. More at www.charliejstephenswriting.com.