Subtext continues its monthly series of experimental writing with readings by Lidia Yuknavitch & James Tierney at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday, December 6, 2006. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm.

Lidia Yuknavitch (Portland) is the author of three collections of short fictions-- Real to Reel (FC2, 2002), Her Other Mouths, and Liberty's Excess (FC2, 2000)-- and a book of criticism, Allegories of Violence (Routledge, 2000). She has been the co-editor of Northwest Edge: Deviant Fictions and the editor of two girls review. She teaches fiction writing and literature in Oregon.

James Tierney grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana. He graduated from Duke University in 1994 where he began writing fiction while studying under Joe Ashby Porter. He has an MFA from Brown University. Winner of the John Hawkes Memorial Prize in Fiction, over the last three years he has published fictions, critical essays, and a play in the Golden Handcuffs Review and in the annual journal P-Queue. A short play was translated into Polish and published in Lampa, the influential Warsaw-based magazine for contemporary art, music, and literature. He recently wrote the catalog essay on Wilhelm Sasnal for the Stedelijk Museum's 2006 Vincent Prize exhibition in Amsterdam, and another essay previewing the Chinati Foundation's 2006 Open House weekend in Marfa, Texas. Last year he collaborated with Sasnal on his film The River, in which he performed with the rock bands Helsinki and ANDY. He has worked as a print journalist in the west Texas border region and also had a small career as a Natural Language Processing encoder for artificially intelligent agents. In February he will be participating in the OPENPORT Real-Time Performance, Sound and Language Festival and Symposium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A former Seattle resident, he is currently based in Portland, Oregon.