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Christophor S. Wilson is a Pacific Northwest novelist and debut author of Mill City, a coming-of-age story set in the forests and river towns of the Oregon Cascades in 1990. The novel is the first in a planned eight-part series.

Christophor S. Wilson is a Pacific Northwest storyteller writing at the intersection of memory, place, and working-class life. Mill City draws from the dense forests, fast rivers, and close-knit communities of the Oregon Cascades — a world shaped by flannel shirts, log trucks, and kids who find their freedom in the woods beyond town limits.

The novel is the first in a planned eight-part series following Chris Wilson and his circle of friends through the short summers and long wet winters of growing up in a small Oregon mountain town at the tail end of the 1980s. It is a story told with deep love for specific places — the creak of an old dock over a clear-water pond, the ring of a bell above a café door, the sound of the river running through town — and the people who inhabit it.

Mill City is his first novel.

Mill City follows Chris Wilson and his circle of friends through a summer in a small Oregon mountain town — a place of dense forests, fast rivers, and working families. It is a story about the particular freedom of being young somewhere that feels like the whole world, and the weight that comes with it.