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Pop-Up: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
PBF PassNovember 4, 2023 @ 12:45 pm - 1:05 pm
Portland Art Museum
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya pops-up for a reading in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her novelette Helen House.
Upadhyaya is paired with the artwork We Await Thee by Robert Colescott; found in the Black Artists of Oregon exhibit, on the 2nd floor of the Portland Art Museum.
When a woman travels to her girlfriend’s house to meet her parents for the first time, the vibes are very off. A queer ghost story about grief and families, Helen House is a gay, sexy story to tell in the dark.
Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info here.
Bios
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of short fiction, essays, and pop culture criticism living in Florida. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle and the assistant managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her work appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, Joyland, Vice, Vulture, and others. She was a 2021 nonfiction fellow for Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Helen House is her first book.
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