Bryce Powell Biography: My name is Bryce, and I have been taking pictures since my first photography class in my Junior year at Benson High School in Portland, Oregon. I...

Frau Bach (Anna Magdalena Bach) First night. Sweet Christy, meek and misty, Johann’s eyes, our premier prize. The doctor tries. Her little body, prodded, poked In search of hope, is still and...

Classes I teach I teach a range of graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature courses, including the MFA poetry workshop and Narrative Medicine: a core course for undergraduates...

  Arts & Crafts She sat at her desk and collaged her first date. She worked her scissors through the paper and around printed pictures, careful not to slice the ears of her partner...

  Dementophobia, or the Fear of Insanity I'm afraid I had something to tell you. The words feel jumbled up right now, But I'm sure we can find sense in them.   They call...

  Snowblind After snow falls, it is covered with cinder from cars driving past every day.   From far away, the mountain bleeds.   As we drive past, you say nothing looks...

  Excerpt from an Unpublished Novel   You had to come around to surrender, acceptance of certain fate, near fate—to apathy. You would come around eventually, after years of caring,...

  Sacred Dirt I don't go outside very often anymore. The butterflies don't land on me like they used to. My skin doesn't warm under the sun--it only burns, redder than it should.   My...

The prestigious Stone Award for Literary Achievement, created by Oregon State University alum Patrick Stone and his wife Vicki, is awarded every couple of years to an American author who is not only a...

  Ode to Cats and Autumn Mornings   It’s a long, cold 15 minutes to work on a November morning. You’ll find me with my hands stuffed in my pockets while I take shelter in the...