Constellation is a celebration of local and visiting writers of all genres and a regular gathering place for Portland's reading and writing communities. We want to build a long-running Portland institution that centers unrepresented writers and gives our local community a regular opportunity to connect with each other around literature.

Constellation Reading #26 is on Thurs, June 26th from 7-9 at Bishop & Wilde, presenting:

WAYNE BUND

Wayne Bund is a writer, visual artist, and performer whose place-based work explores the intersection of fantasy and identity. His work centers on how a queer body moves through and reshapes real and fictional landscapes. Born in Portland and raised on a farm in Boring, he is a Pisces with a Scorpio Rising. He has participated at residences at Lambda Literary, PLAYA Summer Lake, Caldera, and the Sou’wester Lodge. He holds an MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). He lives in Portland, where he co-produces the queer party Lumbertwink, and is working on a novel.

ANTHONY HUDSON

Anthony Hudson is a Grand Ronde / Siletz artist and writer. Anthony's theatrical work, from Looking for Tiger Lily to Queer Horror—and performances as Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi—have earned him national fellowships, international engagements, and sainthood from the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Anthony’s writing has appeared in American Theatre, BOMB Magazine, Buckman Journal, Oregon ArtsWatch, and Arts and International Affairs. His first book, Lamp Back: Plays and Other Grievances, will be published by Northwestern University Press in 2026.

JANE MARCHANT

Jane Marchant (she/her) is an interdisciplinary storyteller working with prose, self-portraiture, inherited materials, and plants to dissect rationalities of racial passing and the implications of white men's exotification of light-skinned women of color. Her identity as a multi-racial daughter drives her art, and she uses form as evidence of existence, to create narrative, and to place her experiences in conversation with the women in her lineage. She’s the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, a Lucas Artist Fellowship at Montalvo Center for the Arts, and a Tin House First Book Residency. Her work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Guernica, Apogee, Kweli, Catapult, and elsewhere. Her favorite flower is jasmine.