Portland State Magazine Winter 2019

9 New honor for composer ERIC FUNK ’75, MS ’78 won Best of Show honors from the 2018 Global Music Awards for his “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op 71.” The well-known international music competition celebrates independent musicians. A music faculty member at Montana State University and an Emmy award-winning contemporary classical composer and conductor, Funk has composed nine symphonies, six ballets, four operas, 19 concertos and five string quartets, as well as large and small choral works and chamber works. He returned to his native Montana in 2002 after a long stint teaching at Portland State, where he studied piano and composing under the renowned Tomas Svoboda. Conversations with Kathleen Turner EMMY AWARD-WINNING filmmaker and film faculty member Dustin Morrow idolized actress Kathleen Turner since he was a kid. In a previous teaching post, he moderated a talk Turner gave to his students. The two hit it off, and he pitched the idea of collaborating on a book about acting done in an interview-conversation format. “She liked the idea,” he says. The result is Kathleen Turner on Acting: Conversations about Film, Television, and Theater , recently released by Skyhorse Publishing. Morrow recorded dozens of hours of conversations with Turner in her home in Manhattan, then used the transcripts to sculpt the book’s text.  Formosa Moon By Joshua Brown and Stephanie Huffman ’16, Things Asian Press, 2018 Poetic Stuff By Ralph Bunch (political science emeritus faculty), Odin Ink, 2018 The Best Bad Things: A Novel By Katrina Carrasco MFA ’15, MCD Books, 2018 FortyWays to Square a Circle By Neil Hummasti ’73, Svensen Pioneer Press (published posthumously), 2018 Burnside Field Lizard and Selected Stories By Theresa Griffin Kennedy ’10, MS ’13, Oregon Greystone Press, 2018 Sleeping in My Jeans By Connie King Leonard, PSU Ooligan Press, 2018 A Kiss in Kyoto: A Story of Love in Japan By Kumiko Olson ’99, MA ’02,The Publishing Circle, 2018 Understanding Addiction: Behind the Scenes By Sadie Petersen ’16, Rosedog Books, 2018 Jake and the Quake By Cary Sneider (education faculty),Tumblehome Learning, Inc., 2018 Squat By James T. Speirs ’72, MS ’76, Inkwater Press, 2018 NEW WORKS