Name: Author Presentation: Mark Pomeroy
Start: 2025-09-23T18:30:00-07:00
Location: Lake Theatre & Cafe

Mark Pomeroy lives with his family in Northeast Portland, where he was born and raised. In 2014, Oregon State University Press published his first novel, The Brightwood Stillness, which The Oregonian called “absorbing and humane.” He has received an Oregon Literary Fellowship for fiction, and for the past thirty years has led creative writing workshops in Portland schools. In 2024, University of Iowa Press published his second novel, The Tigers of Lents, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award in Literary Fiction.
A Q&A session will follow his reading from The Tigers of Lents.
This program is supported by the Friends of the Lake Oswego Public Library and offered by Lake Oswego Public Library in cooperation with the Lake Theater & Café. Admission is free and no ticket is required (though food and drink purchase are encouraged to offset the cost to the Lake Theater). Doors open at 6:30pm, the presentation begins at 7:00pm.