Casey Parks

Oregon Book Award winner Casey Parks  author of  Diary of a Misfit and a reporter for the Washington Post, will speak in Astoria Sept. 8 at a reading and reception hosted by the Writer’s Guild of Astoria and Peace First Lutheran Church as part of the Oregon Book Awards Author Tour

The free event will open with an introductory reading by Astoria writer Alyssa Graybeal, and begins at 7 p.m. at Peace First Lutheran Church, 565 12th St. in downtown Astoria.

Parks, who spent a decade as a reporter at The Oregonian and previously was a reporter at the Jackson Free Press, now covers gender and family issues for the Post. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Oxford American, ESPN, USA TODAY, and The Nation. A former Spencer fellow at Columbia University, Parks is the 2023 winner of the Sarah Winnemucca Award in Creative Nonfiction, part of the Oregon Book Awards.