Justin Hocking is the former Executive DIrector of the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) in Portland, Oregon, and the author of the memoir The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld (Graywolf Press, 2014), which won the 2015 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. His writing has also appeared in Orion, The Normal School, the Rumpus, Portland Review, Open City, Rattapallax, and elsewhere. He is a co-founder of the the IPRC's yearlong Certificate Program in Writing, and the Wilderness Writing MFA Program at Eastern Oregon University. In 2013, WIllamette Week named him as one of the "Ten Writers Who Made Portland."

Website: www.justinhocking.net

Twitter Username: @justin_hocking

Publications

• "Dragon" (short story) , Open City (April 2003)
• "All I Need Is This Thermos" (essay) , The Normal School (April 2010)
• Beach 90th (chapbook) , Swift Season Press (August 2008)
• The Last Neighborhood I Loved: Rockaway, Queens (memoir excerpt) , The Rumpus (December 2012)
• "Burnside Forever" (short story) , The Portland Noir Anthology (Akashic Press) (2011)
• "The Book of Wisdom" (short story) , The Portland Review (2011)
• The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld (Memoir) , Graywolf Press (February 11, 2014)
• "Peak Whale" (nonfiction) , Orion Magazine (January 1, 2014)

Awards

• Barnes & Nobel Discover Great New Writer's Selection(2014)
• Willamette Writers Association Humanitarian Award(2014)
• Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction(2015)

Employment

• Executive Director at Independent Publishing Resource Center (September 2006 - August 2014)
• Assistant Editor at Citadel Underground (January 2004 - September 2006)
• Co-Founder/Lead Instructor at Eastern Oregon Univeristy Wilderness Writing MFA Program (October 2013 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction/Nonfiction from Colorado State University (June 2002)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction