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          Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
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          One Page Wednesday: APRIL
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          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
          April 8, 2024
          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Ashley Toliver Oregon

Ashley Toliver is the author of Ideal Machine (Poor Claudia, 2014) and Spectra (Coffee House Press, 2018). A poetry editor at Moss., her work has been supported by fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts, the Cave Canem Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. She received her MFA from Brown University in 2013.


Purchase Spectra from BROADWAY BOOKS or ANNIE BLOOM’S BOOKS, two of our Portland-based, independent bookstore partners.

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