Incite: Queer Writers Read – November

Vinnie’s love for books began in the second grade, when he worked with his fellow students to write and illustrate a story about the adventures of an ice-cream-loving giraffe. Since then he has worked as a writer, editor, book designer, publisher, workshop presenter, and college instructor. He is the editor of Fashionably Late: Gay, Bi, and Trans Men Who Came Out Later in Life and the author of A Little Bit of Advice for Self-Publishers.

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Jennifer (JP) Perrine is the author of five award-winning books of poetry: Beautiful Outlaw, Again, The Body Is No Machine, In the Human Zoo, and No Confession, No Mass. Their other recent work appears in Best Small Fictions, A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Collection, and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry. A two-time winner of Arts and Culture Diversity and Inclusion Awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, Perrine lives in Portland, Oregon, where they cohost the Incite: Queer Writers Read series, perform stand-up comedy, and work as the equity and racial justice program manager for Metro Parks and Nature.

Stephanie Adams-Santos is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, screenwriting, illustration and ritual. Their work draws from the ancestral, mythological, and dream realms of inner life. They are the author of several poetry collections and chapbooks, including Dream of Xibalba (selected by Jericho Brown as winner of the 2021 Orison Poetry Prize; finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Award and Lambda Literary Award) and Swarm Queen’s Crown (2016 Lambda finalist). Stephanie has written for film, radio, and television, and is currently developing Ojo de la Selva—a mythic, animist tarot deck for divining ancestral and ecological memory. Most importantly , Stephanie believes in art as a vital force of transformation and liberation — and stands for a free Palestine, the abolition of ICE, and the undoing of the fascist imagination.

Courtney Gould is the author of The Dead and the Dark, Where Echoes Die, and 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.

Anthony Hudson is a Grand Ronde / Siletz artist and writer. Anthony's theatrical work, from Looking for Tiger Lily to Queer Horror—and performances as Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi—have earned him national fellowships, international engagements, and sainthood from the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Anthony’s writing has appeared in American Theatre, BOMB Magazine, Buckman Journal, Oregon ArtsWatch, and Arts and International Affairs. His first book, Lamp Back: Plays and Other Grievances, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2026.