ZACK BARNETT (2007) writes news releases, op-eds and speeches and also produces multimedia features for the University of Oregon's Office of Public and Media Relations. He's at work on a book, blending research from his LNF project -- about a journalist who searched for truth in the countryside of Stalin's Russia -- with his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine.

CELENE CARILLO (2007) is living in Corvallis, Oregon and working at Oregon State University, where she writes about everything from tree genetics to theater arts. In her spare time, she has chosen to join the dark side and is working on a novel for adolescents.

PEG HERRING (2007) is the (newly tenured!) Assistant Department Head of Extension and Station Communications at OSU. She works with research and extension scientists at OSU and throughout Oregon to report news of their scientific work and discoveries. She edits the award-winning research magazine, Oregon's Progress, and serves as chief information officer for OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences. Peg’s recent book, "Forest of Time," is a story about forest research in the Pacific Northwest and how it has proceeded in vision and blindness since 1908.

DARRICK MENEKIN (2007) is an Associate Editor at Scotsman Guide, a national trade magazine based in Seattle.

AMY DUNCAN (2006) teaches writing and literature at Eugene's International High School.

LIDONA WAGNER (2006) a University of Oregon administrator, is the winner of the 2007 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest. She is currently at work on two books. The proposal for her women’s empowerment book is making the round of agents and publishers. Another on transpersonal art is in the research phase. Also a professional artist, she is in the middle of a series of works, “Lessons from the Village,” abstract paintings of non-Western villages where she worked for many years.

FREDERICK REIMERS (2006) is the Editor-in-chief of Canoe and Kayak magazine in San Clemente, California. His feature story on climbing El Capitan in Yosemite appeared in Men's Journal.

JESS BURNS (2005) is a news reporter for KLC C-FM in Eugene, Oregon.

CAROLINE CUMMINS (2005) lives in Portland, Oregon, where she's the managing editor of Culinate, a national website about food awareness.

SARAH GIANELLI (2005) lives and works in Portland, Oregon.  She was awarded a 2006 Oregon Literary Arts fellowship for literary nonfiction.

SETH WALKER (2005) is coordinator of the School of Journalism and Communication's Portland Turnbull Center. He was awarded a 2006 Oregon Literary Arts fellowship for literary nonfiction.

RITA RADOSTITZ (2005) is the Director of Philanthropy at the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) and is working with the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field, providing content for the website and serving as the media relations liaison. Radostitz, who also earned a Master's Certificate in Nonprofit Management, is a regular contributor to the Austin (TX)Chronicle

ANNA BRINKMANN (2004) left her job as a reporter for a newspaper on Vashon Island (where her stories won three Washington Newspaper Publishers Awards) to work in community relations for the Seattle Department of Planning and Development.

TARA LOHAN (2004) is an environmental journalist and senior editor at AlterNet. She is also the editor of the forthcoming book, "Water Consciousness: How We All Need to Change to Protect Our Most Critical Resource," a comprehensive look at the global water crisis and solutions. She lives in San Francisco.

SUZI STEFFEN (2004) does double duty as the performing and visual arts editor and the copy editor for the Eugene Weekly. She's happy to be back in touch with the young people who were the subjects of her LNF project and hopes to write more about them soon.

KELLY STEWART (2004) lives in New York City, where she searches for quirky stories and freelances for the Christian Science Monitor.

TABITHA THOMPSON (2004) is managing editor at Utah Business magazine and contributing editor for Digital IQ magazine.

CHRIS AMMON (2003) Christina Ammon is a freelance writer perpetually on-the-road. Her latest inspiration is the "With This Ring Project," www.withthisringproject.org which is her effort to do something useful for the wider world, while exploring her own attitudes about commitment.

ALAN CHOATE (2003) covers the city of Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

TRICIA BRICK (2003) is an editor at New York magazine.

NICKI LASKOWSKI (2003) is a writer for a daily online publication with Boston University.

DANIEL RANDOLPH (2002) lives in Norway, where he teaches high school English and writes freelance.

DAVID WEISS (2002) is an assistant professor in the journalism department at Montana State University in Billings.

JAMIE PASSARO (2001) is a freelance writer and executive assistant at Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.

JESSICA MACMURRAY BLAINE (2001) is the marketing, catering & communications director for Marche, a restaurant group in Eugene focused on seasonal, sustainable, regional cooking. She continues to freelance as a food writer, and occasionally teaches magazine writing at the University of Oregon.

SONA PAI (2001) is a writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. Her essay "Under the Mandap" was recently published in the anthology Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally, published by Seal Press.

JENNIFER SAVAGE (2001) lives in Missoula, MT where she is a half-time editor and writer working for a feminist women's clinic.  She is also an active freelance wrier for local and regional publications and websites.  Her (usually) weekly column on NewWest.net,  Savagemama, featured her essays on motherhood.

JENNY WIERSCHEM (2001) is a reporter for a community newspaper and a freelance writer in Baltimore, Maryland.

BOBBIE WILLIS (2001) is a freelance writer and high school journalism teacher in Eugene, Oregon.

SARAH ALLEN (2000), after falling in love with subculture writing as an LNF student, found her favorite one of all: the international community of professional baristas. Sarah and her husband, Ken, founded Barista Magazine, a bi-monthly journal with now more than 8000 subscribers around the world, in 2005. As editor, Sarah travels extensively in South and Central America, Europe and Africa covering the diverse cultures within specialty coffee. Sarah is a regular contributor on the topic of coffee to The Slate, New York Newsday and The Wall Street Journal.

MARK BLAINE (2000) is a fulltime instructor at the University of Oregon’s School of journalism and communication.

IAN MCCLUSKY (2000) is an independent documentary producer whose work is featured in festivals and broadcast on PBS stations.

HARLEY PATRICK (2000) is an editor for PSI RESEARCH, a mid-size, independent publisher of military history, travel adventure and business books. He teaches public relations at Southern Oregon University.

WHIT SHEPPARD (2000) lives in Paris and writes about tennis for a variety of publications including ESPN.com, Tennis Magazine, and Tennis Week. He is also a lecturer in the English department at the Ecole Polytechnique, near Paris.

JULE WIND (1999) lives in Maui where she writes monthly columns for four visitor magazines, edits a newsletter for a nonprofit, teaches writing at Maui Community College and – let’s face it – has fun.

MICHAEL HUFFMAN (1998) is on the English/Humanities faculty at Tacoma Community College. He continues to write nonfiction and fiction.

SUZANNE HURT (1998) covers immigration and the homeless for the Modestro Bee in California.

JOHN MONAHAN (1998) is the editor of Better Nutrition magazine (circ of 454,000) in Glen Allen, VA

GARY THILL (1998) is a freelance writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon.

NANCY WEBBER (1998) has been on the road for Barack Obama since January, 2008.  Recent productions include "Ducks to the Bayou" - a documentary about 25 Oregon college and high school students and their work for U.S. Fish and Wildlife and Habitat for Humanity in Houma, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina.

ZANNE MILLER (1997) is director of communications at the School of Journalism and Communication, where she writes, edits, designs and oversees a wide variety of outreach communication.  A freelance writer, she has been published in Oregon Quarterly, Etude, and Culinate.  She is at work on both a memoir and TV pilot.

KELLEE WEINHOLD (1997) left her position as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (where she completed her nonfiction narrative/memoir "Not by Her Own Hand") to establish Trillium Creek Studios, a writing retreat in the mountains of Southern Oregon. She looks forward to working with writers who are as inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape as she is.

BRETT CAMPBELL (1996) is the classical music editor at Willamette Week.  His stories have appeared in Oregon Quarterly, Oregon Humanities, Portland Monthly and Stanford.  He is at work on a biography of the composer Lou Harrison, a project he first conceived as an LNF student.

MARK MASSE (1995), a professor at Ball State who teaches writing and literary journalism courses., just completed his second novel, "Whatever Comes," which received funding from the Indiana Arts Commission.  He is at work on a new literary nonfiction book project, “On Deadline in Harm’s Way” about the effects of covering traumatic events on the lives and psyches of reporters.