Ellen Waterston

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Winner Oregon Quarterly 2008 Essay Competition
Read Waterston's first place essay "The Old Hackleman Place: An Obituary," here.

BrainstormNW Magazine Features Interview with Waterston
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Waterston 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.

Waterston 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.

Deer Drink the Moon - Poems of Oregon
Ellen Waterston is one of the poets featured in Deer Drink the Moon, Poems of Oregon. Deer Drink the Moon is a masterpiece of poetry about the state of Oregon, published in 2007 by Ooligan Press in Portland, Oregon. To order, contact your local bookstore or Ooligan Press, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751.

AVAILABLE 2008/2009
A Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration Of Horses, Yarroway Mountain Press, Igo, California
Mothers and Sons: An Anthology
Sack of Birds, Ice River Press, LaGrande, Oregon
Where the Crooked River Rises, A Collection of Essays on the High Desert

Ellen Waterston
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