Come join the Orion Magazine's Summer Issue Launch Party hosted at Portland Literary Arts. I am thrilled to join Orion's deputy editor Tara Rae Miner with Erica Berry, Oregon Book Award-winning author of Wolfish, and Elan Hagens, mushroom forager, educator, and owner of Temptress Truffles. We’ll host a short panel about Orion‘s summer issue featuring writing on all things fungi, paint with mushroom pigment, needle felt using mushroom-dyed wool, and leave time for questions and audience participation.
About Orion's Summer 2025 issue. When humans look at mushrooms, we’re apt to see solutions—a cure, a trip, a metaphor, an answer to a problem that we probably created in the first place. In this issue of Orion, we seek to let the mushroom be, simply, itself; a marvel of mystery and interconnectedness that structures our world in ways we still don’t fully understand. This celebration of the fungal kingdom asks not what we should do with mushrooms, but how we can live alongside them.