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Flashback: Ellen Hagan & Sabina Khan

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 from 11:45 am - 12:45 pm PDT
1422 SW 11th Ave Portland, Oregon 97201

General Admission Pass required for entry

Two stories about how the past is always present, the secrets we keep, and the meaning of home.

Ellen Hagan‘s Don’t Call Me a Hurricane is an affecting and resonant novel in verse that explores family, community, the changing ocean tides, and what it means to fall in love with someone who sees the world in a different way. Sabina Khan‘s Meet Me in Mumbai is the extraordinary story of two teenage girls forced to understand the power and the consequences of their choices, and how family can be both formed and found over time. Moderated by Megan Savage.


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Ellen Hagan

Ellen Hagan is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the author of Reckless, Glorious, Girl and the co-author with Renée Watson of Watch Us Rise. Her poetry collections include Blooming Fiascoes, Hemisphere, and Crowned. Her work can be found in ESPN MagazineShe Walks in Beauty, and Southern Sin. Ellen is the Director of the Poetry & Theatre Departments at the DreamYard Project and directs their International Poetry Exchange Program with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. She co-leads the Alice Hoffman Young Writer's Retreat at Adelphi University. Raised in Kentucky, she now lives in New York City with her family. Her most recent book is Don't Call Me a Hurricane
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Sabina Khan

Sabina Khan is the author of the upcoming YA novel Meet Me in Mumbai as well as Zara Hossain is Here and The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali. She is an educational consultant and a karaoke enthusiast. After living in Germany, Bangladesh, Macao, Illinois and Texas, she has finally settled down in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, two daughters and the best puppy in the world.
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Megan Savage

Megan Savage is a multi-genre writer who has taught courses including Creative Writing, Editing & Publishing, and Children’s Literature at Portland Community College since 2008. At PCC, she serves on the Steering Committee for the new Carolyn Moore Writing Residency. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing and an M.A. in English from Indiana University where she was Fiction Editor of Indiana Review. Her own writing is influenced by themes and images from children’s literature, fairy tales, and folklore, and can be found in such places as Boyfriend Village by Black Warrior Review, Sixth Finch, the Routledge anthology, Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-Imagining, and the More Devotedly podcast.
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