Ellen Waterston, award-winning author and poet, is the
special speaker at Central Oregon Writers Guild’s Thursday July 25 meeting.
Ms. Waterston’s third collection of poetry, Via Lactea, published by Atelier 6000, will be released Fall of
2013. The book-length collection is based on her walking the Camino de
Santiago April 2012. Other titles include: Cold Snap, Fishtrap, Inc.,
2011 featuring assorted writings; Where The Crooked River Rises,
a collection of personal and nature essays located in central Oregon’s high
desert, OSU Press, 2010. Poetry awards include the 2009 and 2005 WILLA Award
for her collections Between Desert Seasons and I Am Madagascar,
respectively. Her memoir, Then There Was No Mountain, was rated one of
the top ten books by the Oregonian in 2003 and earned her an appearance on
Good Morning America. She served on the faculty of Summer Fishtrap 2012, and
in 2013 was the keynoter at the Northwest Poets Concord and judged the
Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest. After eleven
years as founder/director of The Nature of Words, a Bend-based literary arts
non-profit, she passed the baton in 2012 to focus on her own writing and the
Writing Ranch, which she founded in 2000, and which offers workshops and
retreats for emerging writers in central Oregon, Europe and Mexico. She
is currently working on a novel and a second memoir. She lives in Bend,
Oregon. Her website is: www.ellenwaterston.com.
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Central Oregon Writers Guild’s Thursday July 25 meeting takes place at COCC Redmond Campus, Building
3 Room 306, 6:30 p.m. Meetings are free and everyone is welcome to
attend..
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Ellen Waterston
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