Eleanor Berry
Eleanor Berry’s latest poetry collection, Works of Wildfire, won the 2022 Grayson Books Chapbook Award. Previous publications include Green November (Traprock Books, 2007), No Constant Hues (Turnstone Books of Oregon, 2015), and Only So Far (Main Street Rag, 2019). A past president of the Oregon Poetry Association and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Berry co-founded and chairs the Mid-Valley Poetry Society. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and has taught literature and writing at several Wisconsin colleges and universities, as well as Willamette University, and led poetry workshops for OPA, Sitka, and other literary and arts organizations.
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Barbara Drake (1939–)
Poet, essayist, and educator Barbara Drake makes the places in Oregon where she has lived central to her writing. Her poetry and essays, many of them focused on Coos Bay and rural Yamhill Valley, are significant contributions to the state's literature of place. For twenty-five years, she taught creative writing …
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