The NW Author Speakers series will welcome Portland author and editor Marcelle Heath for a talk and book signing at 2:00pm on Saturday, May 17th. This will be a hybrid presentation, with patrons able to enjoy the talk in the library or from home via the library’s website.
Heath’s debut short story collection, Is That All There Is? was a finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Fiction. The stories deal with women’s lives and the dangers and losses they face across time and geography. The collection has been called “brilliant and elegant,” and Heath’s prose has been described as “masterful, electric and brilliantly precise.”
Heath writes short stories and tiny fictions. Her work has been published in Fractured Lit, Joyland, Little Fiction, Nat Brut Magazine and the Kenyon Review. She is currently an editor at Matchbook Magazine.
Marcelle Heath lives in Portland with two dogs, one tortoise and one film professor.
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