Pop-up: Alex Behr

Alex Behr reads from her new short story collection Animal Kingdom at Portland Art Museum in the Prints & Drawings gallery (Level 0, Room 007), paired with Eileen “ikie” Nolan Kressel, Sunrise.

About Animal Kingdom:

In late 2019, award-winning Portland author Alex Behr reunited with Chris Hartman, a lost love, after thirty years. Tragically and suddenly, he was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive prion illness, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and died just months after the move. Tender, erotic, and damned, the nineteen stories in Animal Kingdom are inspired by Behr’s grief and searches for meaning from chaos and loss.

“There are antecedents—PJ Harvey, Molly Shannon, Nan Goldin, Jane Bowles…Behr’s writing, fact or fiction, is sui generis.” —Mary Rechner