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JON MOOALLEM
Master storyteller and journalist Jon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to This American Life. He is the author of This Is Chance!, which was chosen as a best book of the year by BuzzFeed, and Wild Ones, named a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and Canada’s National Post. His new essay collection, Serious Face, due out this May from Random House, is one of Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022. He lives on Bainbridge Island, outside Seattle, with his family. Website • Twitter • Spotify
KEANON LOWE
Keanon Lowe was a wide receiver for the Oregon Ducks and an NFL offensive analyst before he returned home to coach the football and track teams at Parkrose High School in Portland. Within two years, he led a football team with a 23-game losing streak to their first conference title in 53 years. But that’s not his best-known legacy at the school. On May 17, 2019, while working as a security guard, Lowe disarmed a student who’d come to school with a shotgun and a suicide note. A movie version of his heroic story is now in pre-production and will stream on Disney Plus. Lowe is also now the author, with Justin Spizman, of Hometown Victory: A Coach’s Story of Football, Fate, and Coming Home, due out in May 2022. Twitter
JOHN CRAIGIE
John Craigie has been called “the lovechild of John Prine and Mitch Hedberg” (The Stranger), and it’s true that he is as much a storyteller and a humorist as he is a singer-songwriter. Known for his easy Americana style and his clever, life-affirming wit, Craigie carries on the legacy of such clear-eyed troubadours as Woody Guthrie and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. A Portlander when he isn’t on the road, Craigie has toured with Jack Johnson and received fan mail from Chuck Norris. His most recent studio album, Asterisk The Universe, came out in 2020. Website • Spotify
JENNY NGUYEN
Jenny Nguyen is the chef, founder, and owner of The Sports Bra, the world’s first sports bar showing only women’s sports. A basketball player from an early age, Jenny turned to the culinary arts after an injury ended her sports career in college and worked her way up in kitchens for the next 15 years. The Sports Bra, which opened in Portland in April 2022, raised over $100K on Kickstarter, received press coverage from around the world, and continues to draw attention to gender inequality in sports. Website