What LNF Graduates are doing now

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

LIDONA WAGNER (2006) a University of Oregon administrator, is at work on a biography of Oregon's unknown famous artist, Carl Morris. Also a professional artist, her new series of paintings, called "The Village" and based on her work in developing countries, will be on display at Opus6ix Gallery in Eugene in October 2007.

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

JESS BURNS (2005) hosts and produces a community affairs interview radio show called "In Depth" which airs on both KPNW (1120AM) and KDUK (104.7FM).

SARAH GIANELLI (2005) is hard at work on her book, Pipe Dreams. 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) directs the new University of Oregon Innocence Project. A joint venture of the School of Journalism and Communications and the Law School, the project will identify, investigate and advocate for wrongfully convicted inmates in Oregon. Radostitz, who served as assistant editor of Etude: The Journal of Literary Nonfiction for two years, is a regular contributor to the Austin (TX) Chronicle. As an attorney in Texas, she represented Death Row inmates for seven years.

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 a freelance writer and political organizer in Northern New Mexico. She and her brother are building a house in the Rocky Mountains outside of Taos

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) was awarded a 2004 Oregon Literary Fellowship for Nonfiction. Is now a freelance writer www.christina-ammon.com.

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

TRICIA BRICK (2003) is a staff writer at Bostonia magazine.

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

KURT KAMIN (2003) is a landscape technician with Friends of Buford Park’s field stewardship crew. The group collects seeds, propagates, plants and nurtures native trees and shrubs along the Coast Fork Willamette River floodplain near Eugene in an attempt to recreate a fraction of the pre-settlement environment. Kurt meanwhile is attempting to atone for the countless reams of paper he consumed (and created) as a grad student.

CHRISTINA ENG (2002) is a freelance writer living in the Bay Area. Her essay, My Mother's Kitchen, originally published in the Oakland Tribune, has been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2002.

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) is executive director of the Clark Fork School in Missoula, Montana. The small community school uses journaling and storytelling as the main components of its curriculum.

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) is the founder and editor of Barista, a bi-monthly magazine serving the professional barista community.

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) is currently working on two video projects, one about childrens' museums and another about a young mother and athlete with hereditary heart disease.

ZANNE MILLER (1997) holds an administrative appointment at the School of Journalism and Communication, managing its communications and outreach programs and editing Flash. Previously, she was a freelance publications consultant with clients in higher education, healthcare, and the arts as well as a public relations instructor for four years. For the past six summers, she has taught a creative arts and writing program for children at Temple University in Ambler, PA.

BRETT CAMPBELL (1996) teaches magazine writing and editing at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, writes about the arts for the Wall Street Journal and other publications, and is working on a biography of the composer Lou Harrison.

MARK MASSE (1995) a professor at Ball State, teaches writing and literary journalism courses. He is the author of Inspired to Serve: Today's Faith Activists (Indiana University Pres, 2004) and a novel, Delamore's Dreams. Three of his short stories (excerpts from his new novel, Whatever Comes, are available for sale via Amazon.Shorts.



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