Writers

Tim Josephs
Tim Josephs was born and raised in New Jersey and ventured out to Oregon several years ago seeking his fame and fortune (that and to flee the NJ mob boss who wanted his thumbs). After a series of unsatisfying jobs (yo-yo inspector and table tennis ball boy, to name a couple), Tim took up writing and soon realized he had a real knack for it, at least his Mom thought so. He is the author of several books, most notably The Wizarding Adventures of Larry Kotter [lawsuit pending] and Stalk this Way: Getting Your Ex to Fall Back in Love with You By Any Means Necessary. He currently lives with his fiancé and a tubby cat.

Jason Moore

If you haven’t heard of Jason Moore, and you didn’t know that he has single-handedly resurrected the publishing industry with his stratospheric sales, I envy your naiveté. Remember the first time you injected heroin? Better. The first time you sang show tunes in the shower with both your lovers? Double better. Expect pleasures more visceral and numbing than sampling plates of strawberry cupcakes on a Sunday morning, or galloping after butterflies in fresh snow.

His second novel, I Ain’t What I Ain’t, never rose to the heights of his first, I Love You Canadian Free Healthcare Scum! It was perhaps a mistake to write solely in pig latin, but you can’t fault him for trying. I Love You Canadian Free Healthcare Scum! oozed onto the literary scene like a pleasant foot jell packaged in a hand-thrown porcelain urn painted with small birds, and no school child has ever been the same. As with most first novels, it was juvenile, nearly unreadable and undeveloped, but we found sticky globs of beauty occasionally splattered on the page, and we knew we were in the presence of a flowering savant.

Matthew Corum

Matthew Corum is the author of an unpublished/potentially un-publishable novel,j.. New to town, he is looking for a better job and will do nearly anything for $20/hr...

Jeremy Benjamin

Jeremy Benjamin – if you want to get his attention and can't remember his name, he will respond to “Red,” and if that nickname escapes you, you can address him with an exclamation of “Hey, jerk-off!” - is a mutant reptile raised by an anthropomorphic rat in a New York City sewer, a vigilante trained in the exquisite art of bullshitting and making a mockery of the format of a web bio. A chivalrous, conscientious – and titillating – escapee from New England, his BCCC (blood-clam-chowder content) is still at 3.4, meaning he is now legal to operate a motor vehicle, and has been issued the special privilege of yelling curses at traffic lights – in his best Jack Nicholson impression, which is quite terrible – and dancing to bad remixes of 90's Hip-Hop standards while operating said motor vehicle. Born September of 1981 on a stormy night, infant Jeremy was observed to stand up in his crib and voice satanic litanies in an arcane language (that has yet to be identified by the team of linguists at the Vatican Research Center assigned to his case), and being raised in captivity as a messiah of evil, he vowed to make Portland Oregon his stalking ground as a twenty-something. The Portland Fiction Project is Jeremy's first strike at unraveling the collective sanity of bohemian audiences.

Jacob Aiello

Jacob Aiello recently graduated with highest honors from Portland State University, where he managed to pick up a degree in English Literature while spending all his spare time writing fiction. His stories have been published in Ooligan Press and The Wordstock Festival's "Wordstock Ten." He is now hard at work amassing a collection of short fiction about the transformative power of the written word, which is more exciting than it sounds. He grew up in a small town in Northern California and experimented with Texas, but now happily resides in Portland, where he plans to stay.

Heather Nordeen
Heather Nordeen grew up in Vancouver, WA though she is currently in denial of once residing in this suburban hell hole. She eventually moved to Portland and attended Portland State University where she received her Miss America degree in Communications, however she was able to keep her sanity by writing and occasionally leaving the country.

Kate Nordbye
Kate Nordbye currently exists only as a figment of her own imagination.  Prior to this, Kate, being the most intimidating person she knows, hired herself out to serve as a bodyguard (not stalker, as some have insinuated) for the Portland Fiction Project.  Faulty morality led her to steal some of their greatest work and to submit it as her own to The Oregonian Editorial Page.  In an attempt to curtail this behavior, Kate was allowed to join the Project and since then has been happily stealing her stories from small children and the medically uninsured.  In an alternative reality, Kate is a writer, teacher, social worker, traveler, calligrapher, and has her orange belt in Kung Fu.

Thea Stayton
Thea was born in Eugene, OR and successfully infiltrated ‘normal society’ sometime in 1994. Ever since, she has been working secretly to further the influence of the Moderate Agenda. Those damned Moderates, they’re everywhere! Don’t listen to her so-called rationalism, her disgusting live-and-let-live rhetoric. It’s a trap to lure good, hard working extremists down the road to hell! Soon you’ll be talking to that nut across the street with his out there, wacko ideas at the other end of the spectrum—and then it’s only a matter of time before they convert you. Be warned: she seems harmless, even innocent with her self-deprecating humor and laid back presentation. Make no mistake; she is out to get you. All of you. She’s probably already in your head. Don’t worry, there are trained teams who can help you shake of the independent mindse—I mean brainwashing and bring you back into the fold of what this country is all about: Sit-coms, fast food, all-day 30%-off sales. Oh no, she’s here! Stay away from me! Aaaaaaggggghhhhhhh.

Doug Dean - Editor
Doug divides his time between writing, occasionally performing improvised theater around town, working with the writers of The Portland Fiction Project, singing at Chopsticks II and elaborate delusions of grandeur. For eight years, he hosted the earliest Christmas party on Long Island (until a broken window in his mother's house created the need for a new venue).

Some early short pieces writing can be found online at Yankee Pot Roast.

A mysterious yet self-effusing type, he can be found as well as lost, present in any given moment.