Literary Arts
Joliene Carolina is currently working as a Hub Director for the Women's Travel Community at Wanderful, a Teaching Artist for Creative Writing at Literary Arts, and a Conference Coordinator for Indigenous Revitalization Language Workshop at the Northwest Indian Language Institute at the University of Oregon. Joliene is also a Freelance Writer, Editor, and Translator. Joliene has a background in academia, with experience teaching English and developing curriculum at various educational institutions. Joliene holds a Master of Arts in Linguistics with a Language Teaching Specialization from the University of Oregon, among other degrees in Comparative Literature, Spanish, and History.
Literary Arts
Founded in 1984, Literary Arts is a community-based nonprofit literary organization located in Portland, Oregon, dedicated to serving readers and writers. Our programs include Portland Arts & Lectures, one of the country's largest lecture series; Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships, which celebrates Oregon's writers and independent publishers; our Youth Programs, which inspires students to write, revise, edit, publish, and perform their own creative writing; and Portland Book Festival, which builds community around literature through author events, workshops, a book fair, and more. We also host guided discussion groups around great works of literature through a program called Delve. Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation of readers with great literature.