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          Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
          April 3, 2024
          One Page Wednesday: APRIL
          April 4, 2024
          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
          April 8, 2024
          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Maria Scrivan

Maria Scrivan is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning syndicated cartoonist. Her debut graphic novel, Nat Enough, was released in April 2020, and the follow-up, Forget Me Nat, in the following September. Maria’s laugh-out-loud comic, Half Full, appears daily in newspapers nationwide and on gocomics.com. Her cartoons have appeared in MAD Magazine, Parade, Highlights, Wired and many other publications. She also licenses her work for hundreds of greeting cards.


Purchase Forget Me Nat from Green Bean Books, one of our Portland-based, independent bookstore partners HERE.

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