Stevan Allred

Stevan Allred is a Portland, Oregon writer, teacher, and editor. He co-teaches creative writing at the Pinewood Table and edits the zine Dixon Ticonderoga. His debut, A Simplified Map of the Real World (Forest Avenue Press, 2013), is a collection of fifteen linked stories set in the fictional town of Renata, Oregon. It was the first title in the press's fiction catalog. His novel The Alehouse at the End of the World (Forest Avenue Press, 2018) draws on the story of James Bartley, a man who claimed to have been swallowed by a whale in 1891. Publishers Weekly reviewed his novel, calling it sparked with risqué humor and underscored by a strong theme of hope.