Join us for an evening of readings and conversation with memoirist Wayne Scott, and poets Matthew Dickman, and Matthew Nienow. They will share new work, reflect on their personal journeys, and discuss how parenthood, partnership, and art intersect

Wayne Scott is the author of the memoir The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage Reimagined. His writing has appeared in The Sun, Poets & Writers, The Psychotherapy Networker, Huffington Post, and The Oregonian, among others. His New York Times essay, “Two Open Marriages in One Small Room” (January 2020), was adapted for the Modern Love podcast and read by Edoardo Ballerini (summer 2021), then “dutchified” for Modern Love (Amsterdam), the television series, in 2022. Some of his more notable tweets are included in Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace (A Public Space Books, 2021). He was a Tin House Fellow in 2019. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner and three young adult children. He works as a writer, psychotherapist, and teacher

Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, and All-American Poem, which won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his two sons

Matthew Nienow is the author of two poetry collections from Alice James Books: House of Water (2016) and If Nothing (2025), as well as three earlier chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Georgia Review, New England Review, 32 Poems, and other journals. A former Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellow, he has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Elizabeth George Foundation, Artist Trust, and 4Culture. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with his wife and two sons