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Friday, October 17th, 7 pm. Maritime Barbey Center. Doors open to the public at 6:30. Tickets $20 at the door or included with Festival Pass. Book Signing to follow. Pre-event reception for Festival Pass holders opens at 6 pm.
2024 was a banner year for poet and author Ellen Waterston who, that year, received Soapstone’s Bread and Roses Award, Literary Arts’ Stewart H Holbrook Award, and was named two a two-year term as the eleventh Poet Laureate of Oregon. She has dedicated herself to writing and advocating for the literary arts in the high desert region of Oregon, all the while continuing to write poetry and nonfiction works that have evolved into essential reading about Oregon and the West. She has published five literary nonfiction titles, including, most recently, We Could Die Doing This (2024) and Walking the High Desert (2020), and four poetry titles. Her fifth poetry title, As Far As I Can Anthem (working title), will be published December 2025. Waterston is the founder of the Writing Ranch and of the annual Waterston Desert Writing Prize. For more information visit www.writingranch.com
Friday, October 17th, 7 pm. Maritime Barbey Center. Doors open to the public at 6:30. Tickets $20 at the door or included with Festival Pass. Book Signing to follow. Pre-event reception for Festival Pass holders opens at 6 pm.
2024 was a banner year for poet and author Ellen Waterston who, that year, received Soapstone’s Bread and Roses Award, Literary Arts’ Stewart H Holbrook Award, and was named two a two-year term as the eleventh Poet Laureate of Oregon. She has dedicated herself to writing and advocating for the literary arts in the high desert region of Oregon, all the while continuing to write poetry and nonfiction works that have evolved into essential reading about Oregon and the West. She has published five literary nonfiction titles, including, most recently, We Could Die Doing This (2024) and Walking the High Desert (2020), and four poetry titles. Her fifth poetry title, As Far As I Can Anthem (working title), will be published December 2025. Waterston is the founder of the Writing Ranch and of the annual Waterston Desert Writing Prize. For more information visit www.writingranch.com