Fran Gardner | Oregon ArtsWatch

Mark Pomeroy’s novel, ‘The Tigers of Lents,’ tells the story of a Portland family on the edge of poverty

August 21, 2024

Pomeroy was writer-in-residence at Marshall High School when it closed in 2011. “It was the last thing that community needed,” he says of the Southeast Portland neighborhood.

Eileen Garvin dedicated her new novel, “Crow Talk,” to her sister Margaret, who has profound autism. “All of my books lead back to my sister in one way or another,” she says.

In ‘Crow Talk,’ Hood River author Eileen Garvin twines birds, writer’s block, and autism into a pitch-perfect story about the human heart

July 24, 2024

Nature is as much a character in the novel as the two women who bond over birds and their mutual concern for a 5-year-old boy who has stopped speaking.