LRCW Reading: Stephanie Adams-Santos, Megan Milks, Diana Oropeza

About The Readers

Influenced by a childhood spent between Oregon and Guatemala, the art and writing of Stephanie Adams-Santos explores the ancestral, primal, and mythological forces that shape inner life. They are the author of several full-length poetry collections and chapbooks, including DREAM OF XIBALBA (selected by Jericho Brown as winner of the 2021 Orison Poetry Prize; finalist for a 2024 Oregon Book Award and Lambda Literary Award) and SWARM QUEEN'S CROWN (finalist for a 2016 Lambda Literary Award). In addition to their literary work, Stephanie has written for television, radio, film, and is creating an original tarot deck that blends poetry, animism, and ancestral magic.

Work By Stephanie Adams-Santos

Dream of Xibalba (poetry)

Swarm Queen’s Crown (poetry)

Total Memory (poetry)

Website

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Megan Milks is the author of Mega Milk: Essays, forthcoming from Feminist Press in early 2026. Their other books include Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body (Feminist Press, 2021), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, and Slug and Other Stories (Feminist Press, 2021), a revised second edition of their award-winning collection Kill Marguerite. With Marisa Crawford, they co-edited the anthology We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers (Chicago Review Press, 2021); with KJ Cerankowski, they co-edited the academic volume Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Routledge, 2014; second edition forthcoming 2024). Their essays and criticism have been published in The New York Times, 4Columns, Bookforum, and many other venues. They live in Brooklyn and teach writing at The New School and at Pratt.

Work By Megan Milks

Mega Milk: Essays (nonfiction, Feminist Press)

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body (novel, Feminist Press)

Slug and Other Stories (story collection, Feminist Press)

Tori Amos Bootleg Webring (memoir/cultural criticism, Instar Books)

“Patrick Gets Inspired” (sample story)

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Diana Oropeza is a Portland-based writer working across poetry, nonfiction, and spoken word, and the recipient of a 2026 Oregon Literary Career Fellowship. Born in Lake Tahoe to Mexican immigrant parents, her work explores migration, translation, and layered narrative voice. She holds an MFA from PNCA at Willamette University, where her debut hybrid collection An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance (Future Tense Books, 2024) won the Thesis Award, and a BA in Media Studies from UC Berkeley. She co-founded The Social Stomach, a spoken word and drums project that reimagines traditional poetry readings. Her writing appears in Willamette Magazine, River Styx, and Not My Style. She is currently researching lab rats and mazes for a new hybrid collection examining systems of control and observation.Work By Diana Oropeza

An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance

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Event Details

Saturday, June 20 -  Reading at 6:00PM

Off Campus at Word Virus (203 SW 9th Ave) .3 miles away from PNCA Campus, 8 Min walk. 

In person only. This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!