LITERARY
CONTRIBUTORS
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PHYLLIS
AMSBERRY.
Born in Oregon. Lives in a duodecadon home on the
banks of the Columbia River. Writing a novel about
fishing life in the Northwest. "Yogi Berra, traveling
to Cooperstown to be inducted into the Hall of Fame,
found his driver had taken a wrong turn. Said
Yogi,'We're lost, but we're making good time.'"
'A
Character In Her Own
Right'
GAIL BALDEN.
Michigan native. Winning essay in 'Wise Woman Writer'
contest. Published in Oregon Coast Magagine. "I
think good writing is about telling the truth; it is
about making sense of our lives, and at the heart of
it all is our voice. Maybe that's why I write - to be
heard."
STEVEN
BARZA. Associate
Professor of Creative Writing, University of Richmond,
Virginia. Published in Ascent, The Tennessee
Quarterly, The Key West Review, Kinesis, and other
literary journals. "William Butler Yeats is a key
model for rigorous - but also subtle and unobtrusive -
poetic design."
'Told
Too Much'
TRACY BERGERSON. Born
in Astoria, Oregon. "From childhood I've remembered a
quote from Emily Bronte: 'In my life I have dreamt
dreams that have stayed with me ever after, they have
gone through and through me like wine through water,
and altered the colour of my
mind.'"
NANCY K. BERRY. Born
in Tonasket, Washington. Lived two years in Wraysbury,
England. " I savor words...the way in which authors
put them together to bring an image to the mind...the
way they roll around in my mouth when spoken...and the
way they fall pleasingly on the
ear."
LISA BOISJOLIE. Born
and raised in Portland, Oregon. Works as a magazine
distributor. Stays continually in touch with
words.
JOHN BREITENBUCHER.
Attended Orange Coast College and University of
California at Irvine, worked as a long-haul truck
driver and machinist. His writing is directed to his
concern for the common man.
PHYLLIS
BROMS.
Memoirs in A Patchwork History of Nehalem Bay
and poetry in Elixir. Compiling a collection of
poems about birds.
MARY
LEGATO BROWNELL. Grew
up in St. Paul, Minnesota, now living in Philadelphia.
Currently writing Petrarchan sonnet sequenes about her
Italian family.Teaches at Abington Friends School.
Published in Pivot, English Journal, American
Writing: A
Magazine.
'Winter
Solstice'
AVENUE CAMPALA.
Born in Hudson Valley of New York. Graduated in
clinical biology from SUNY/Cortland. Earns her living
as a craftsman. Was last seen on a fishing boat headed
for Alaska.
'Stages'
TOM CRAWFORD. Has
been teaching in South Korea. Books include China
Dancing, Lauds, If It Weren't For These Trees,
and I Want To Say Listen. A new
manuscript, The Temple on Monday, recently
completed.
'The
Soul'
MARY CROW. Poet
Laureate of Colorado. English Department, Colorado
State University. Author of I Have Tasted the
Apple, and Borders. Published in
Ploughshares, NAR, New Letters, Graham House
Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review,
American Poetry
Review.
'All
Evening'
HELEN DICKINSON.
Conducts "small wars against those in this generation
who profit and otherwise destroy everything of any
human or natural value." Former head of English
Department, Portland Community College. Published in
Poetry Northwest, Mississippi Mud, and a
chapbook, A Blanket Pardon.
MARK
CHRISTOPHER EADES. Resides
in San Francisco Bay area. Lived in Europe and Asia.
Poetry and prose published in Lucid Moon, Plain
Jane, Talus & Scree, Tears in the Fence, and Vigil
Literary Review.
'In
Shanghai'
ANITA ENDREZZE. Lives
and teaches ethnic literature in Spokane, Washington.
Publications: H&R's 20th Century of Native
American Poetry Anthology, at the helm of
twilight; 'Looking for Amber' is from The
Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves. Her next book
is a compilation of stories, myths and tribal Yaqui
history, Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the
Moon.
'Looking
For Amber In
Isefjord'
IRENE ERTELL. Born
in Texas, raised in Louisiana. M.A. Librarianship,
University of Denver. Army officer, public library
director. Admires short story writers Alice Munro,
Flannery O'Connor, Eudora
Welty.
ELLIZABETH FARRELL. Resides
in the Missouri Ozarks. Published in Rolling Stone.
"Reciting multiplication tables as a schoolgirl
gave me a taste for the harmony of numbers. Years
later the sestina with its pattern of sixes became a
fascination." Collage artist, ecologist,
secretary.
SANDRA CLAIRE FOUSHEE.
Grew
up in Illinois. Published in Ploughshares, Prairie
Schooner, West Wind Review, Seattle Review, and a
chapbook, Back to Essentials. A ms.The Light
That Moves Us recently completed. Poet and
musician. 'Letter
From America'
SCOTT FRANCIS. Resident
of Kyoto, Japan, for nine years, earlier in
Northeastern China. Poems and translations in many
publications.
JEANNE FRESHWATER.
Native
of Los Angeles, California. Columnist, North Coast
Citizen. Published in Fine Cooking and
Oregon Coast Magazine. "I start with facts but
to enhance the story I add a bit of fiction. As
Wallace Stevens commented: 'In the world of words,
imagination is a force of nature.'"
'For
the 'L' of It'
VALERIE
GENUNG.
Born in Oregon, went to school in California, and
recently returned to the Northwest to write.
DIANE
GIBSON. 'Homeless'
is the story of her brother. "It doesn't interest me
who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know
if you will stand in the center of the fire with me
and not shrink back," from a poem by Oriah Mountain
Dreamer, Native American
elder.
PAT GUERIN.
Born in Paso Robles, California."I have a moose who
stomps around on my front porch. When I open the door,
he snorts, 'Where have you been - I've been waiting
for you!' and charges in. Why do I write? I can't
avoid that moose."
BARBARA
HARRAH.
Born in New York City. Raised in Virginia. For the
Custody of Penny Bahr, a novella, received Bennet
Cerf and Doubleday Awards. Published illustrated book,
Whispers From the Second Dune. "I always
remember Dick Humphrey's advice to write 'what is
interesting, moving, and true.'"
'From Here To You'
GEORGANA
HARRISON.
Published in The Oregonian. Quoting
William Stafford: "A writer is not so much someone who
has something to say as he is someone who has found a
process that will bring about new things he would not
have thought of if he had not started to say
them."
JIM
HEFFERNAN.
Attended Catholic school in Denver for eleven years,
picked up a passion for words and an aversion to
authority. Lived in England for awhile, works as a
milk factory mechanic.
ROSEMARY
HIRSCH.
Born in West LA. Afficionado reader of mysteries. "The
war years in LA became one source for my stories."
TIMOTHY
HODOR. Resident
of Vienna, Austria. Published in Hours in
Orchestration, Blue Unicorn, Pudding Magazine, The And
Review.
MARK JOHNSON. Native
of Cloquet, Minnesota. "As a child, Where The Red
Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls was my favorite story."
JOHN KELLY. Raised
in upstate New York. Lived in Ohio, Kentucky, and San
Francisco. "I compare writing to painting." He lives
on the Oregon coast, does wood carving, and paints
watercolors.
KAY KINNEAR. Born
in Kearney, Nebraska. Lives in London. Former
advertising writer for Saatchi & Saatchi. Third
children's book, Deedee's Easter Surprise
forthcoming in USA and Britain. "Best writing
advice: 'Murder your darlings,' i.e. cut out the fine
phrases you're so proud
of."
ANNE KLINGER.
Born in Detroit. Fulbright exchange to England.
World-class fencer, competitive runner. Traveled
around the world on a freighter. Preparing a series of
articles about inhuman conditions in Africa.
NANCY
McCLEERY. Lives
in Lincoln, Nebraska. Poetry collections, Polar
Lights, Staying the Winter. Girl Talk forthcoming
from Backwater Press. Published in Many Mountains
Moving. Fellowship grants from Alaska State
Council on the Arts and Nebraska Arts
Council.
'Girl
Talk. Piano.'
SUE MEISLAHN. Raised
in San Francisco Bay area. Published in Marylhurst
Anthology. Quotes Percy Blythe Shelley: "The
trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can
Spring be far
behind?"
MARGIE CRAINE NEILSON.
Co-owner
of an Oregon Coast marina. "As it often happens, my
early embrace of writing became buried under layers of
life and I feel, as in the words of Maxine Kumin,
'When sleeping beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty
years old.'"
MARY LOU NEWELL. Lives
in Ocean Park, Washington. "Although I may be related
to James Joyce, I very much enjoy the work of Ernest
Hemingway." Quote: "May the road rise to meet you. May
the wind be always at your
back."
JAYE O'NEIL. Born
in San Diego. Escapee from the Mojave Desert. Lived
twenty years on Puget Sound. Reiki Master. Published
in The Higher Source. As Daimin Katagiri Roshi
said, "If you go deep enough, writing will take you
everyplace."
'The
Comb.'
REBA OWEN.
Published in Ear to the Ground, and
Christian Science Monitor. Watercolor artist.
Quoting Dud Nelson on 55 years of happy Halloweens,
'Mom always got to choose whether the pumpkin would
have a good or bad face,' I believe every person's
real experience is the best form of literature."
ANNE
SPLANE PHILLIPS.
Native of Michigan. Book of haiku: Seasons and
Salads. Two chapbooks, A Toe in the Water
and Wading In. Associate editor of Windblown
Sheets. "As Kim Stafford said, 'Have a prepared
mind, then inspiration can happen,' and, 'Go for the
big cookie!'"
'Getting
There'
EARL PHILLIPS.
From Michigan and Arizona. "As Julian Barnes says in
Flaubert's Parrot, 'Why does the writing make
us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough
alone? Why aren't the books enough?"
JACQUIE
QUINT. Watercolor
artist. Elementary schoolteacher in special education.
Narrator of "mostly true tall
tales."
ROBIN REID. Born
in Spokane, Washington. Raised in Texas. Retired from
three letter federal agency. "If I tell which one,
I'll have to kill you." Quotes song, Rock and Roll
Dreams Come Through: "You can't run away forever,
but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head
start."
'The
Mint Condition
Pontiac'
CARLOS REYES.
Poet and translator. Poetry collection, A Suitcase
Full of Crows. Forthcoming: Oilean Agus Oilean
Eile. Translated Josefina de la Torre's Poemas
de la Isla. Fundation Valparaiso
Fellowship.
'Clabber'
JIM RICKETTS. Born
in Oregon. Resides with wife in a household of five
children, two grandchildren, a grandfather,
semi-resident friends, a cat, and a neurotic springer
spaniel. Writes in self-defense. From J. Paul Palmer:
Poetry is "a language for feeling...to express the
inexpressible."
JACK
ROSENLUND.
"Veteran of WW2. X-paratrooper. X-skydiver. X-jewelry
maker. X-working stiff. X-cellent cook."
EDITH
SCHWARTZ. Born
in Idaho. "Spent my first night in an oven-the
doctor's substitute for an incubator." Traveled in
Italy and France. Working on a mystery novella.
'Crab
Heist Advice.'
RICH
SEWARD. "Have
bounced back and forth...trying to decide what to do
with my life, 'When skating on thin ice, skate
fast!'"
'Punk
Theater At The
Paris.'
JUNE
STROMBERG.
Born in Jamestown, North Dakota. Author of When We
Lived on Washington Street. Published in Good
Old Days and Windblown Sheets. As Mark
Twain said, "Imagination is like a powder keg that
needs a spark from the outside."
'The
Entity.'
ALWYN
SCOTT TURNER.
Born in Leonard, Texas. Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships
for Documentary Photography: The American
People 1969-01. Quotes the Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam, "A book of verses beneath the Bough...and you
beside me, singing in the wilderness - Paradise now!"
Poet, artist, musician.
'In
The Light of Liquid
Dreams'
MARY ELLA TURNER.
Born in Texas. Lives in Detroit, Michigan. Graduated
from Macomb Community College at age 65. Writes
memoirs and song lyrics at 89. Song: 'Take Me Back To
Texas'
MARJAN
WAZEKA.
Resided in Italy for several years. Writing about
Peace Corps experiences in Pakistan. University of
Utah. University of Washington.
JEAN
WOLLENWEBER.
Born in Aurora, Illinois. Vegetarian. Humorist.
Quoting Carolyn Forché, "Poetry is the voice of
the soul, whispering..."
RENATE
WOOD. Lives
in Boulder, Colorado. Poetry collection, Raised
Underground. Published in American Poetry
Review, Virginia Quarterly Review. Teaches in MFA
Program for Writers, Warren Wilson College.
DONNA
K. WRIGHT. Born
inWichita, Kansas. Teachers as Writers Award for
Poetry l996 from the Oregon Council for Teachers of
English. Editorial board of Oregon English
Journal.
'Reading
The Cherokee'
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