The Mouths of Others

03/01/2023

11/11/2022

Join students, staff, faculty, and members of the community for an engaging time with author Tina Ontiveros.

The event will be held in AC 2653 on December 1, 2022 from 1:00 - 2:00 PM and via Zoom (LINK BELOW).

Tina Ontiveros is a writer, teacher, and bookseller based in the Pacific Northwest. She teaches writing and literature at Columbia Gorge Community College. Tina is the first person in her family to go to college and she completed her college education while raising her children.

After community college she earned her BA in Literature at Marylhurst University, then her MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Goddard College.

As a writer and a teacher, Tina’s work explores class, generational hardship, and the social constructs that marginalize the poor. Her essay, The Life We Pay For, was a top ten most read of 2019 Oregon Humanities Magazine feature. her memoir, rough house, was released from OSU Press in Fall 2020.

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://mhcc.zoom.us/j/95326731294?pwd=dVpub2VRSzg1Y293N0hTWE9XT3JnQT09
Meeting ID: 953 2673 1294
Passcode: 983088

04/08/2022

For our spring Mouths of Others literary event, we are pleased to welcome indigenous Canadian author Cherie Dimaline to our (virtual) campus on Tuesday, May 3rd from 1:00 - 2:00 PM (PST).

Cherie Dimaline will read from and discuss her work (novels include The Marrow Thieves, Empire of Wild, and Hunting by Stars) as well as participate in a Q&A. Please mark your calendars and promote this event to your students, friends, and community members!

A little about The Marrow Thieves:
"Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden - but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves." -- Amazon Books

A little about the author:
"[Cherie Dimaline] is an author and editor from the Georgian Bay Métis community whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally. In 2014, she was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts and became the first Aboriginal Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Cherie Dimaline currently lives in Toronto where she coordinates the annual Indigenous Writers' Gathering." -- Goodreads

01/08/2022

The Mouths of Others is proud to welcome Kesha Ajose Fisher.

Kesha’s first book, NO GOD LIKE THE MOTHER, recently won the Ken Kesey Award For Fiction at the 2020 Oregon Book Awards.

Kesha Ajose-Fisher is dedicated to amplifying the voices of some of the most vulnerable members of our society. She knows that many of life’s burdens fall heaviest on the shoulders of women, and she seeks to expose this reality in her writing.

Her debut collection of fictional short stories, No God Like the Mother, delves deep into the lives of women who are expected to keep the world turning, all while bearing the brunt of its hardships. No God Like The Mother is a tribute to those who have experienced the brutality of breathing through the agony of losing a child. Set around the world, the stories in No God Like the Mother offer an insight into the extraordinary everyday lives of women, and follow the characters through times of transition,
tribulation, hope and uncertainty.

When: Feb 15th, 2022 (1:00 - 2:00 PM PST)

Where: Zoom (Link in Comments)

For more information, please email:
[email protected] or [email protected]

11/10/2021

MHCC’s very own Sean McGinty is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two YA novels, The End of Fun and his newest, Rainbow in the Dark.

Of Rainbow in the Dark, Kirkus Reviews writes, “McGinty deftly updates L. Frank Baum’s classic tale with modern-day existential angst, creating a unique world that’s terrifying in both its foreignness and its familiarity.”

In past lives, Sean has worked as a reporter, a cartoonist, an AmeriCorps volunteer, and a farmer. He currently teaches composition and creative writing in the English Department at Mt. Hood Community College.

(Link in comments)

Reading and Q&A
Wednesday, Nov. 17
1:00 - 2:00 pm
AUTHOR Sean McGinty

For more info:
[email protected]

04/01/2021

The Mouths of Others is proud to feature award-winning comic book writer, author, filmmaker, and MHCC alumnus David Walker on Wednesday, May 19th, 2021.

The event will be held on Zoom: 1:00 - 2:00 PM for the reading/
Q&A, followed by a workshop from 2:30-4:00 PM, open to twenty participants.

Zoom links will be shared as we get closer to the event.

More on David here:
https://davidfwalker.com/bio/

For more information, please email
[email protected]

People requiring accommodations due to disability should contact the Accessible Education Services Office at 503-491-6923 or [email protected].

Please call or email at least two weeks prior to event. MHCC is an AA, EEO, Title IX, Title VI, Title VII, Title II, Section 504, ADA, ORS 659A Institution.