Join us at BOLD as we celebrate Portland Book Week with a night of readings featuring writers Henry Latourette Miller, Nicole Rosevear, and Jeff Stookey.

The event is the third in a series spotlighting the stellar writing of members of the Indigo community. Each featured author will read a selection from their body of work.

Henry Latourette Miller is a city planner and writer with a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University. He spent nearly three years winning grants and innovating game-changing programs at the Portland metro’s largest street user advocate, The Street Trust. In his last role at the City of Tigard, he worked on improving streetscapes, exploring e-mobility solutions, and connecting communities as their transportation planner.

In his spare time, Henry freelances articles on travel, history, technology, planning, and the city life. His writing has been featured in The Oregonian, Street Roots, The Corvallis Advocate, PDX Monthly, Willamette Week, Portland Tribune, BikePortland, and more. He also produced a history podcast called Small Town America and provided research for the documentary Cheers! Portland, The Strip Club Capital of America.

Ooligan Press published his first book, The Pacific Northwest Disaster Guide, in 2024.

Nicole Rosevear’s work has appeared in North American Review, Bennington Review, The Lemonwood Quarterly, and VoiceCatcher as well as the anthologies City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales and Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. When she’s not writing or teaching fiction, composition, and literature at Clackamas Community College, she can often be found in her garden spending more time identifying bugs than looking after the plants.

Exploring the lives of two gay men in the 1920s, Jeff Stookey had to learn to see through eyes that were not familiar with a post-Stonewall world. These characters were figuring out homosexuality, just as he had, growing up in a small town in rural Washington State. He studied literature, history, and cinema at Occidental College, and then got a BFA in Theater from Fort Wright College. In 1992 he retrained in the medical field and worked for many years with pathologists, trauma surgeons, and emergency room reports. This background led to the creation of the character Carl Holman MD, while a deep dive into gay history and Oregon’s past shaped much of the rest of the trilogy. A novel writing class at The Attic Institute and more than a year with two different creative writing groups helped him bring this story out of the closet. Stookey has lived in Portland, Oregon, for many years with his longtime partner and their unruly garden.

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BOLD Coffee & Books is honored to be a participant of Portland Book Week 2025. PBW is an annual city-wide event celebrating independent bookstores and book lovers all across the Cascade region in Portland, Vancouver, and more. Learn more about the celebration, participating shops, and events here.

Arrive at 5:00 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 5:30 p.m.

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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

https://boldcoffeeandbooks.com/event/a-portland-book-week-reading-with-the-indigo-community/