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Jubilee Award; OGALLA Award of Merit; and the Basic
Rights Oregon Superhero Award. Selected as a 2010
Oregon Super Lawyer. Founding member of the
BRO Legal Group; author of Same-Sex Marriage: a
Conflicts of Law Analysis for Oregon; frequent local,
state and national speaker on marriage equality.
Raining Accolades
Author W ood w ins aw ard s for portrayal of qu eer
boys in love and danger
Like her namesake, the warrior princess
in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Eowyn
Wood doesn’t shy away from a challenge.
Her two-part authorial debut, novels Na
ked in the Rain and Afterglow, tackles sen
sitive and provocative subject matter.
“I was concerned [about how readers
would respond] because there’s some pretty
controversial issues. The main character is
young and ends up having sex with older
men,” Wood explains. The novels tell the
story of two boys who flee their troubled
lives to find themselves, and their love for
one another, in a world filled with drugs
and child prostitution—heavy material for
a debut novel.
For Wood, the first taste of published
life turned out to be the sweetest. Naked in
the Rain (2007) won numerous awards—it
was named the winner in both the Next
Generation Indie Awards (2008) and the
National Best Books 2007 Awards from
USA Book News in the GI.BT category. It
also took home silver in ForeWord Maga
zine's 2007 Book of the Year Awards’
GI.BT category.
Former Curve editor Diane Anderson-
Minshall compared the novel to My Own
Private Idaho, saying that it asked “read
ers to determine whether it’s a modern
subversive fairytale or a gritty post-gay
drama.”
So where did the 41-year-old bisexual
Portlander find inspiration for a set of
novels about Brian, an 11 -year-old bisexual
piano prodigy, and River, a 14-year-old gay
tough guy?
“The main character, Brian, I started
inventing him because of the band Placebo.
I had seen some interviews and videos of
them—the singer [Brian Molko] is bisex
ual and the lyrics are very open about that,”
Wood explains.
Beyond providing inspiration for Brian’s
character, music plays a key role in prefac
ing the novels’ chapters, particularly in
N a ke d in the R a in .
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“ I was concerned [about how
readers would respond] because
there’s some pretty controver
sial issues. The main character
is young and ends up having sex
with older men.”
-EOWYN WOOD
“I have always had a great love of music.
I just decided, wouldn’t it be fun to start
each chapter with lyrics?” Wood explains.
Now that Afterglow is out—and racking
up awards of its own—Wood is taking a
break from the decade-long project. She
admits she has other ideas percolating, but
plans to focus on her work at Cascade
AIDS Project, her side job editing for
Crooked Hills Publishing and spending
time with her partner and pets.
Still, she foreshadows, “I’ve considered
continuing this series.”
For more inform ation , v is it eowynwood.com.
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