Amanda Hawkins and Melissa Matthewson read their Poetry

Wednesday April 23rd  7:00 to 8:00 pm

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.

Melissa Matthewson is the author of Tracing the Desire Line from Split Lip Press, a finalist for the 2021 Oregon Book Award. Her next book of hybrid nonfiction, The Fire Trees, is forthcoming from punctum books in 2026. Her essays have been published in numerous places including Literary Hub, AEON, Oregon Humanities, Longreads, DIAGRAM, Terrain.org, Mid-American Review, Guernica, River Teeth, The Rumpus, and Bellingham Review among other publications. She teaches nonfiction in the MFA Creative Writing program at Eastern Oregon University and works and teaches at Southern Oregon University.