Mark Pomeroy lives with his family in Portland, Oregon, where he was born and raised. In 2014, Oregon State University Press published his first novel, The Brightwood Stillness, which The Oregonian called “absorbing and humane.” He has received an Oregon Literary Fellowship for fiction, and his short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Open Spaces, Portland Magazine, The Wordstock 10, NW Book Lovers, The Oregonian, and What Teaching Means: Stories from America’s Classrooms. For the past twenty-nine years he has led creative writing workshops in Portland schools. University of Iowa Press published his second novel, The Tigers of Lents, in 2024.

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