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Recipient of a 2011 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology writing residency, Neskowin, Oregon, April 2011
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Recipient of La Playa writing residency, Summer Lake, Oregon, May 2011
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Recipient of the Ann Werner writer in residence as part of Fishtrap, Enterprise, Oregon July 2011
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Where the Crooked River Rises was published by OSU Press, Corvallis in September 2010. In this compelling collection of personal essays, award-winning poet and author Ellen Waterston illuminates the people, places and landscape of Central Oregon's vast high desert. To read reviews and order your copy of the book, click here.
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Recipient of a 2009 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artists Fellowship.
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Awarded the 2009 Island Institute Writing Residency in Sitka, Alaska for the month of April, 2009.
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Awarded a 2009 Individual Artists Fellowship Grant by the Oregon Arts Commission. These grants recognize the achievements of Oregon artists and the contributions they make to the cultural health of the state. Read the news release.
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Featured writers in Citadel of the Spirit, Nestucca Press, an anthology of essays commemorating Oregon's Sesquicentennial.
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Winner of the 2008 Oregon Quarterly Essay Contest.
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Awarded Honorary Degree. Following her address to the Oregon State University/Cascades Campus 2007 graduating class, Ellen Waterston was named an Honorary Distinguished Professor of Humane Letters for her accomplishments as an author and poet and her promotion of the literary arts through The Nature of Words and The Writing Ranch. Read her speech here.
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Awarded the 2007 Obsidian Prize in Poetry. For her poem Painted Shut, Ellen Waterston was selected as the winner of the national 2007 Obsidian Prize in Poetry awarded by High Desert Journal. Read Painted Shut here.
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A sought-after presenter, Waterston was the keynote speaker at Oregon State University-Cascades, Oregon English Teachers Association, Oregon Library Association, Oregon State Poetry Association, Trillium Family Services and CASA (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse).
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