Pop-Up: Mary Rechner
Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, ORMary Rechner pops-up for a reading in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her short story collection Marrying Friends.
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Mary Rechner
Mary Rechner is the author of the story collection Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women named to the long list for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the novella The Opposite of Wow published in the Hong Kong Review. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as New Letters, Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, and Washington Square. Her criticism and essays have appeared in Litro, The Believer, Oregon Humanities, and the Oregonian. Treat is a word and music collaboration curated by Rechner and produced by Core Productions. A recipient of fellowships from Literary Arts and the Regional Arts and Culture Council, as well as residencies from Caldera and the Vermont Studio Center, Rechner has taught fiction writing at Portland State University and the University of Portland, and now teaches media arts to high school students. Her novel-in-stories, Marrying Friends, is forthcoming from Propeller Books in October 2023.
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