Adjunct Fellow at the Attic Institute
Martha Gies is the author of Up All Night (Oregon State University Press, 2004), a portrait of Portland told through the stories of 23 people who work graveyard shift. Her short stories and literary essays appear widely in literary quarterlies, including Orion, The Sun, and Zyzzyva, and in various anthologies, and her journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers for the last 35 years. Martha has received support for her work from Literary Arts and the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and has won prizes for her short fiction from PEN and the Seattle Weekly. She taught as an adjunct instructor in both the Lewis & Clark graduate writing program and, for 20 years, at Marylhurst University. Since 2000, she has taught her annual Traveler’s Mind (www.veracruzworkshops.com) workshop abroad in Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, India and Spain. Martha is also a long-time activist for low-income housing and human rights.
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