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allisongreenwriter
Author of The Ghosts Who Travel with Me, a memoir, and Half-Moon Scar, a novel.
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Author Archives: allisongreenwriter
100 Notable Small Press Books, 2025
Today LitHub has published a list of 100 notable small press books of 2025, and I had the great honor of choosing two of them: The River People, by Liz Kellebrew, and Sixty Seconds, by Steven Mayfield. When the call came about a year … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, Literature, Uncategorized, Writers
Tagged book-review, book-reviews, books, Literature, reading, writing
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The Four Stages of Moving to Portland
Note: Non-Portlanders might want to listen to the theme from “Portlandia” while you read this post. Portlanders: This is your cringe warning. Stage 1: Disbelief After spending most of our lives in Seattle, Arline and I moved to Portland in … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Portland, Uncategorized
Tagged aging, Pearl District, Portland, Seattle
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Leaving Seattle
In the late 1970s, I used to peruse the bootlegs in a record store in Seattle’s University District. They had plain white sleeves with xeroxed images of the artists tucked in the plastic wrap. I still have my bootleg of … Continue reading
One Writer’s Life: November 2024
A few weeks ago I was in my campus office teaching when my computer suddenly rebooted, kicking me out. It took several minutes to get back into Zoom, but when I did, my students were still there, kindly waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Faith/belief, Literature, Writers, writing
Tagged books, education, faith/belief, Literature, writing
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One Writer’s Life: August 2024
The last week of August, I spent a few days in Westport, Washington, with my writer friend Jennifer D. Munro. I had intended to work on my book about the Mount St. Helen’s eruption, but there wasn’t enough time to … Continue reading
Posted in Faith/belief, Literature, Travel, Uncategorized, Writers, writing
Tagged books, faith/belief, Literature, travel, writing
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One Writer’s Life: July 2024
In Medellín and Bogotá, Arline and I attended a wedding, strolled the botanical gardens, drank great coffee, and enjoyed the enthusiasm of Colombian fans as they rooted for their team in the Copa América. We never felt unsafe, but had … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Literature, Racism, Travel, Uncategorized, Writers, writing
Tagged books, Literature, travel, writing
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Thirty Days Thirty Poems
Over twenty years ago I fell in love and wrote a flurry of poems because that’s what new lovers often do. But when new love settled into daily love, I returned to prose. Now I’m writing poems again, this time … Continue reading
The Books that Traveled with Me
Maybe it’s the pandemic; maybe it’s social media rotting my brain; maybe it’s the grief and stress of handling my father’s estate and taking care of my mother, who has Alzheimer’s, but I have found it difficult lately to read … Continue reading
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