Jennifer Robin, Portland, Oregon-based writer & performance diva whose Little Beirut slices of public transit are gathered at Feral House in the coll., Death Confetti. Reading her brutally compassionate work is akin to watching a brawl betwixt Chas Bukowski, John Steinbeck, with Kathy Acker as referee, but better choreographed. Her subjects can include the Zonked Checker and The Crack Whore Morton Salt Girl, but what at first seems grotesque is an empathetic attentiveness. Her novel, Bouzi, was published by Creative Arts in 1999. A frequent GobQ contrib., Robin returns w/a parallel essay (in English/Icelandic/Croatian/Spanish) about the City That Works It: Safe Travels/Örugg ferðalög /Sigurno putovanje/Viajes Seguros.