Unlikely Stories and Rigorous in Portland
Wendy Taylor Carlisle at Ford Food and Drink in Portland, Oregon, on March 27, 2019. This reading, a partnership between Unlikely Stories and Rigorous, was an off-site event of the 2019 Conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the 2020 winner of the Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Award for The Mercy of Traffic and this spring, Doubleback Books reprinted her 2008 book, Discount Fireworks, available free at: Doubleback Books. Her website is www.wendytaylorcarlisle.com. Photo by Greg Comnes.