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Fall/Winter 2006 Contributors

Alexandra Bradspies was the OCH public program intern. She lives in southeast Portland, where she is searching for the perfect bowl of noodle soup.

Cheryl A. Brooks is a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law. She formerly worked as a writer and editor at various publications throughout the state. After living in Oregon for nineteen years and raising a daughter, she moved to Philadelphia, where she is now a public defender.

Lucy Burningham is a Portland writer whose work has appeared in Oregon Humanities, Portland Monthly, Oregon Business, Sunset, and Men's Journal. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in nonfiction writing from Portland State University.

Caroline Cummins is a freelance writer in Portland. She's been following the ups and downs of innocence projects in Oregon for nearly two years, and hopes to see one succeed here someday.

Asha Dornfest is the founder and editor of Parent Hacks (www.parenthacks.com), a collaborative weblog of practical parenting wisdom. She lives in Northeast Portland with her husband, seven-year-old son, and three-year-old daughter.

Carol E. Hickman is the public program director for the Oregon Council for the Humanities.

Anthony A. Iaccarino is an assistant professor of history and humanities at Reed College who specializes in the political history of the early United States. He is also an instructor for OCH's Humanity in Perspective, which introduces economically and educationally disadvantaged adults to the transformative power of a humanitistic education.

Steve Johnson is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. His Ph.D. dissertation, a history and analysis of Portland's civic life since World War II, was named the best dissertation of the year in urban politics from the American Political Science Association and will soon be published as a book, Civic Portland: Community Action and Innovation, 1950-2000. He has lectured in this country and overseas on civic engagement, social capital, and community-based watershed restoration.

Janine Oshiro completed a master's in writing at Portland State University and currently attends the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She received a 2004 poetry fellowship from Literary Arts.

Mary Rechner teaches fiction writing at Portland State University and is a "writer-in-the-schools" for Literary Arts and Community of Writers. Recent stories appear in the Kenyon Review and the Oregon Literary Review. Her short story "Hot Springs" was published by Cloverfield Press.

Jennifer Ruth is an associate professor of English at Portland State University. She is the author of Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Ohio State, 2006).

Donald Snow teaches environmental studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla. For twenty-five years, he worked as an environmental activist, writer, and editor in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. Most of those years were spent with the Northern Lights Research & Education Institute in Missoula, where he founded and coedited Northern Lights Magazine.

Erika Weisensee is an adjunct instructor of journalism and communication at the University of Portland. In 2003, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship in the creative nonfiction category. Her writing has appeared in several regional publications, including Portland Monthly and PDX Magazine.