LIT Sunday: Author Readings

This year’s author lineup offers a vibrant spectrum of voices—memoirists, poets, novelists, and screenwriters—who will each read an 8-minute segment from their latest writing! Before they draw you into the world’s they’ve created on the written page each writer will share a quick story about their first concert or most memorable concert experience. It’s a new addition, and we think you’re really gonna dig it. Curated and hosted by Frayn Masters, this year’s program invites audiences to sit back and let their minds be filled with the imagery and characters of some of today’s most exciting literary voices.

Lisa Wells is the author, most recently of The Fire Passage, a tragicomic journey through an underworld of mysterious illness, climate catastrophe, fallen empires, and the strange history of Western Medicine. It was selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the Levis Poetry Prize and was published by Four Way Books in 2025. Her book Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021), tells the story of trailblazers from across the globe who have developed radically new ways to live, reconnect to the earth, and repair ecological degradation in the face of species loss and climate change. Believers was a finalist for the 2022 PEN E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and it was featured in the Sunday New York Times Book Review; recommended on “Paperback Row”; and was named Best of 2021 or Recommended Reading in many publications including The Observer, Outside Magazine, Book Riot, and Bookforum. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, N+1, and recent features in Harper’s Magazine were selected by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022, and by Padma Lakshmi for The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024. She lives in Portland.

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