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Martha Gies is an Oregon
author whose work, both fiction
and nonfiction, has been published
widely over the last three
decades in newspapers, magazines
and literary quarterlies,
including Orion, The
Sun, and Zyzzyva.
Her book Up All Night,
a portrait of Portland, Oregon,
told through the stories of
23 people who work graveyard
shift, was selected by both
the Oregonian and the
Statesman-Journal as
one of the Ten Best Regional
Books of 2004. Gies is a winner
of the PEN Syndicated Fiction
Project and has had a screenplay
in development at Sundance
Institute. She has also received
grants from the Regional Arts
& Culture Council and a fellowship
in creative nonfiction from
Oregon Literary Arts. She
studied writing with Raymond
Carver and Maria Irene Fornes.
Following a long involvement
with migrant farmworkers,
Gies scripted the film !Aumento
Ya!, a documentary about
successful labor organizing
on Oregon farms. She has traveled
in Central Europe, Chile,
Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras,
and makes frequent trips to
Mexico, where she was a foreign
observer of the 1994 federal
elections. She has also taught
English in a Oaxaca barrio
and conducted interviews in
Chiapas.
Gies teaches creative writing
at Marylhurst University in
Portland, Oregon, and led
the first Traveler's Mind
workshop to Mexico in 2000.
For a list of her Portland
classes or links to her work
online, visit her blog at
www.marthagies.blogspot.com.
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