Incite: Queer Writers Read – May

Denise Chanterelle DuBois is an author, movie actress, active in live theatre and a business woman. She lives in Brookings, Oregon, having moved there from Portland 4 years ago. Upon arrival, Denise resurrected her acting career (from the early 1980’s in San Diego), at the Chetco Pelican Playhouse, (CPP) in Brookings, appearing in: Romeo & Juliet, and performing lead roles in: "Gladys in Wonderland" & "Nunsense the Musical” and has been cast in “Clue" which opens in early summer at CPP. In addition her memoir; “Self-Made Woman,” is the setting for a full length feature film titled: OH, DENISE! with over a year of filming nationwide now complete. The movie is currently being edited with release date TBA. Denise enjoys hiking the dramatic SW Oregon coast from her front door, hiking in Redwoods National Park, located minutes away in California, as well as enjoying the bountiful fresh seafood & river salmon the region has to offer, in what’s known as the “banana belt” of Oregon due to the mild-Mediterranean year round marine climate. Insta: @denisecdubois   Twitter: @DeniseDuBois3

Emme Lund is an author living and writing in Portland. She has an MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, TIME Magazine, The Rumpus, Romper, the Portland Mercury, and Autostraddle, among many other venues. In 2019, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction. Her debut novel, The Boy with a Bird in His Chest(Atria Books, 2022) was longlisted for the First Novel Prize from the Center For Fiction, was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award,  named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed and The Portland Mercury, and was included on lists in The Washington Post, USA Today, People Magazine, The Advocate, Cosmopolitan, and Shondaland.

Andrea Deeken was born in rural Missouri. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer Words, The Blue Mountain Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valley Voices, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize Contest and second place in the 2020 Blue Mountain Review LGBTQ Chapbook Contest, among others. Her debut chapbook, Mother Kingdom, won the 2021 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest and was published in March 2022. A former book editor, she has worked for the Multnomah County Library for fifteen years. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her wife and daughter. Instagram: @andrea.deeken  Twitter: @drelo