POOL PARTY PRESENTS: Teenage Makeout Spots
Genevieve Hudson is the author of the novel Boys of Alabama which was a finalist for the 2021 Oregon Book Award and received praise from Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, The Believer, Apple Books, and other places. They also wrote the story collection Pretend We Live Here, which was a A Lambda Literary Award finalist. Hudson’s work has been selected as Best of the Queer Internet Writing by them and appears in McSweeney’s, Elle, Oprah Magazine, Bomb, Tin House, Bookforum, and other places. They have received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, Caldera Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. They live in Portland, Oregon.
Frayn Masters has been a Producer and Host for The Moth and is currently the Creator, Artistic Director, and Host of the award winning BACKFENCE Storytelling series, she’s been reading and telling stories all over the west coast — recently at AWP — on podcasts and LIVE. She’s been published in Little Engines, McSweeney’s, Hobart, Portland City of Weird, and other situations. She is an avid heavy hooper who is, as a never-nude, super excited to be performing during a pool party.
Margaret Malone is the host of the literary radio show Bust the Canon on xray.fm, and author of the story collection People Like You, a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize, and selected as one of the Northwest’s “25 Books to Read Before You Die.” The recipient of grants, fellowships, and residencies from MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, Sitka Center, Literary Arts and others, Margaret has been working hard lately at being more flinty and unreasonable in her daily life. She mentors both established and emerging writers of all genres on their individual projects in person and online. Reach out sometime to learn more or just to say hello at margaretmalone.com.
Lauren Lavín is a writer and musician with work in Triangle House Review, Rejection Letters, Farewell Transmission, and elsewhere. Her first essay collection, The Third Beat (Autofocus Books) will be published in 2026. She was made in Mexico, born in Oakland, and currently lives in Seattle.
Lauren Mantis is a lesbian southerner living in Portland, Oregon. She writes to learn about nature and human nature. Lauren earned her MFA in creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and her MS in technical communication at NC State. She has work published and forthcoming in Harbor Review and more. Learn more about her work at www.laurenmantis.com.
* This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are producs of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
