Kevin Sampsell

I am the publisher of Future Tense Books in Portland, Oregon. I work at Powell's Books and also make collage art. I have written reviews and articles for various papers and mags. I have a few books out. My memoir, A Common Pornography, was published by Harper Perennial and my novel, This Is Between Us, was published by Tin House Books. I also edited Portland Noir, a book of crime fiction published by Akashic Books. My book of collage art and poetry, I Made an Accident, came out in 2022 from Clash Books.

Here's a few links to some stuff:

My essay on the loss of a friend, the loss of a book, and depression

My Tumblr of collage!

Flash Fiction on X-R-A-Y

My essay on Prince nostalgia and going to see The Revolution

My essay about coronavirus closing down Powell's

Short story at Hobart

The sad history of my football fandom

Flash Fiction on Wigleaf

My Paper Trumpets collage column at The Rumpus

Excerpts from This Is Between Us

My Longreads essay about my mom's Alzheimer's.

My Salon essay about suicide.

Short story on Joyland

Short fiction at The Rupture

Memoir excerpt on Smith Magazine.

I Know Who You Raped Last Summer.

My essay on bookselling and winning a Patterson bonus

On my first three kisses

Poems on Ink Node

Flash memoirs at 3am Magazine

Bookslut Interview

Flash Memoir pieces on McSweeney's

Fiction piece ("Options") on Identity Theory

Interview on The Rumpus