Gertrude Press is proud to support the authors we have published through our annual Fiction and Poetry Chapbook Contests.
| Henry Alley | Fiction Chapbook Winner, 2006 |
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Henry Alley is a Professor Emeritus of Literature in the Honors College at the University of Oregon.
He has three published novels: Through Glass, The Lattice and Umbrella of Glass.
A three-time Pushcart nominee, Henry is also author of the scholarly study,
The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot (University of Delaware Press). Recent work has appeared in Harrington Gay Men's Quarterly Fiction, Herstory, HIMS and in Reading Brokeback Mountain.
Over the past thirty years, Henry's stories have appeared in such journals as Seattle Review, Cimarron Review,
Clackamas Literary Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
He has finished a novel on the Measure
Nine crisis in Oregon, Precincts of Light, a collection of short fiction, The Sojourners,
and an extensive novel, At Large, set in 1968 and 2001, on both the East and West coasts.
Read some recent stories by Henry Alley:
“Would You Mind Holding Down My Body?”, Stonetable Review
“The Facts of Life”, Virginia Quarterly Review
Read more about Henry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Alley.
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| Kate Gray | Poetry Chapbook Winner, 2006
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Her sunrises are full of golden retrievers and writing. Kate Gray's poems and stories chronicle her path on many rivers,
some through Portland, Oregon where she's lived for 20 years. Cedar House Books released Kate's first full-length book, Another Sunset We Survive, in September 2007.
Her poems and stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Seattle Review, Mid American Review, Calyx, and more. She teaches at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City and is an editor of Clackamas Literary Review.
Read more about Kate at http://kategraywriter.com/. |
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| Ellen Orleans | Fiction Chapbook Winner, 2007
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Ellen Orleans is the author of five books of queer humor and social satire,
including The Butches of Madison County (1996 Lambda Literary Award Winner).
Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Girl Jock Magazine, Wilma Loves Betty, and other publications.
Her play, "God, Guilt, and Gefilte Fish," was produced by Goddess Theatre in 1997. Last year, Ellen
was awarded a grant for her performance piece "O-8: My Visit with a Nuclear Missile". She runs the
Yellow Pine Writing Series in Boulder, Colorado. Ellen recently completed a young adult novel, vThe
Replacement Daughter, and is working on a series of essays and poems entitled Golden: My Pocket-Sized
Obsession with the Great Outdoors. |
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| Michael Montlack | Poetry Chapbook Winner, 2007
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Michael Montlack's work has appeared in Cimarron Review, New York Quarterly, Poet Lore, Mipoesias, Bloom, Cream City Review, Court Green, and other journals. In 2006, he was a Pushcart Prize Nominee, a Frank O'Hara Award Finalist, and the recipient of two residencies: Soul Mountain Retreat (Connecticut) and Ucross (Wyoming). Currently he is editing an anthology: Diva Complex (Gay Men on Their Divas).
He lives in New York City, where he teaches at Berkeley College and acts as Associate Editor for Mudfish.
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