Oregon Book Awards Author Tour Redmond: Halloween Inspired

Zoey Abbott is the author/ illustrator of six books and has illustrated a handful of others. She feels honored to spend her days creating books for children and their grown-ups. Her work has appeared in the Society of Illustrators Original Art Show, been shortlisted for an Oregon Book Award, and received both an Oregon Spirit Book Award and Honor from the Oregon Council of Teachers of English. Her books include The Kite Collector, This Year, A Witch!, Banana, Clementine and the Lion, Pig and Horse and the Something Scary, and I Do Not Like Yolanda. Zoey works in various mediums including pencil, guache, sumi-ink and most recently, risograph printing. Her latest work is How to Draw a Zombie. You can visit her at www.zoeyabbott.com.

Courtney Gould is the author of The Dead and the Dark, Where Echoes Die, and the forthcoming What the Woods Took. She writes books about queer girls, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a degree in Creative Writing and Publishing and now lives in Salem, OR, where she continues to write love letters to small towns and haunted places.

Kevin Maloney is the author of The Red-Headed Pilgrim, Cult of Loretta, and the forthcoming story collection Horse Girl Fever. His writing has appeared in FENCE, HAD, Forever Magazine, and a number of other journals and anthologies. He lives in Portland.

Karen Thompson Walker is the author of The Dreamers, and The Age of Miracles, which was named a best book of the year by People, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Financial Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon. It was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and it was translated into twenty-seven languages. She was born and raised in San Diego and is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. Walker lives in Portland with her family, where she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon.