NW Authors Series Presents Marcelle Heath

The NW Author Speakers series will welcome Portland author and editor Marcelle Heath for a talk and book signing at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 17. This will be an in-person only presentation.

Heath’s debut short story collection, Is That All There Is? was a finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Fiction. The stories deal with women’s lives and the dangers and losses they face across time and geography. The collection has been called “brilliant and elegant,” and Heath’s prose has been described as “masterful, electric and brilliantly precise.”

Heath writes short stories and tiny fictions. Her work has been published in Fractured Lit, Joyland, Little Fiction, Nat Brut Magazine and the Kenyon Review. She is currently an editor at Matchbook Magazine.

Marcelle Heath lives in Portland with two dogs, one tortoise and one film professor.

“Borrowing from Peggy Lee, Is That All There Is? transforms the famed song’s fatalistic exuberance into a slim volume of minimalist and genre-blending narratives. From a vacation with friends to a retreat with strangers, danger lurks around every corner. Spanning generations and continents, interweaving cursed travelers with prophetic artists, this book is a showcase of the luckless and lovelorn, the criminal and damned.”