Join us for a reading with Adrienne Chung, Alisha Dietzman and Amanda Hawkins.

Amanda Hawkins by Beowulf Sheehan

Amanda Hawkins’ first book of poetry, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones, was published by Wandering Aengus Press in January 2025. Their work has been nominated for three Pushcart prizes, listed as honorable mention, semi-finalist, and finalist for various contests and awards, and won the Scotti Merrill Award from Key West Literary Seminar, the Editors’ Prize for Poetry at The Florida Review, and the Wandering Aengus Book Prize. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, Honey Literary, Massachusetts Review, The Orison Anthology, Orion, The Rumpus, The Southampton Review, Terrain, Tin House, Tin House Online, and Image, among others.

Alisha Dietzman

Alisha Dietzman is the author of Sweet Movie (Beacon Press, 2023), selected by Victoria Chang for the National Poetry Series. A finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Oregon Book Awards, Sweet Movie was also shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Her creative and critical work has received support from the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission.

Adrienne Chung

Adrienne Chung's debut poetry collection, Organs of Little Importance (Penguin, 2023), won the National Poetry Series. Her work appears in The Yale Review, The Chicago Review, Diagram, and elsewhere. A graduate of Stanford University and the UW-Madison MFA program, she has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She lives in Portland, Oregon and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Willamette University.