The Authors of the OE

Patricia Edwards is publisher and editor of The Lorane Historian and researcher and author of Sawdust and Cider: A History of Lorane, Oregon and the Siuslaw Valley. She is a freelance author and lives in Lorane, Oregon. 

Kerry Eggers has been writing sports professionally since he arrived in Portland in 1975. The Corvallis native and Oregon State graduate worked for the Oregon Journal from 1975 to 1982, the Oregonian from 1982 to 2000, and has been with the Portland Tribune since 2001. A four-time Oregon Sports Writer of the Year, he has written four books, including Wherever You May Be: The Bill Schonely Story, and Clyde the Glide: The Clyde Drexler Story. He is a former president of the U.S. Track and Field Writers of America.

Richard H. Engeman is an archivist and historian with degrees from Reed College, the University of Oregon, and the University of Washington. His publications include the online history of Oregon's built environment, Wooden Beams and Railroad Ties (2005), The Oregon Companion: An Historical Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious and the Arcane (2009) and Eating it Up in Eden: the Oregon Century Farm & Ranch Cookbook (2009). Engeman is a member of the Portland Historic Landmarks Commission and serves on the board of Northwest History Network. He is the principal of Oregon Rediviva LLC, which does historical research and consulting.

Doug Erickson is the College Archivist and head of Special Collections at Lewis & Clark College, where he has been for 18 years. He is  co-author of William Stafford: an exhibit catalog and bibliography (2000),  The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, A Bibliography and Essays (2003), and editor of Jefferson's Western Explorations: discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and William Dunbar (2004). 

Amy Essington is a doctoral candidate in American History at Claremont Graduate University and a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach. She will complete her dissertation, “Segregation, Race, and Baseball: The Integration of the Pacific Coast League, 1948-1952,” in Spring 2010. Amy has published an article on integration in the Pacific Coast League in  the Journal of the West (Fall 2008) and an article on Effa Manley in Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (2001). She worked as an intern at National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, in Cooperstown, New York, in the summer of 1999.

Richard Etulain received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1966 with a dissertation on the Oregon historical novelist Ernest Haycox. More recently, he has researched and written about several Oregon figures, particularly literary, cultural, and political men and women. Of his more than forty authored or edited books, most focus on western or northwestern subjects, especially cultural, religious, and political history. He has also edited books dealing with the Basques of the Pacific Northwest.

Sarah Evans is a writer in the Office of Marketing Communications at Willamette University. She previously was an education reporter for the Statesman Journal in Salem, and also does freelance writing. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas State University and is working on an MFA in writing with a focus on nonfiction from Pacific University.

Susanne Kindi Fahrnkopf was the office and financial manager for the Siskiyou Project for 12 years from 1997-2008, after completing a degree in Business Administration at Rogue Community College. She has been a resident of the Illinois Valley for 29 years, during which she raised four children in her little cabin by the East Fork of the Illinois River in Takilma. Kindi is an advocate for the beautiful Siskiyou Mountains with her art and poetry. Kindi’s poetry has been published in five anthologies, and she self-published her first book, Siskiyou River Reflections, in 2006. 

I live in Baker City, Oregon with my wife Jenifer and Frank the cat. I work as the Fire Botanist for the Vale District of the BLM. I have a BA in Botany and a MS in Resource Conservation, both from The University of Montana. My passion is the pursuit and conservation of rare plants and their habitats. My biggest fun is enjoying the steep and deep powder snow of winter on either telemark or alpine skis.

Andrew Fisher grew up in Portland, received his Ph.D. in history from Arizona State University in 2003, and now teaches at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. His research interests focus on modern Native American history, environmental history, and the American West. He is completing his first book, Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity (University of Washington Press, 2010), which examines off-reservation communities and processes of tribal identity along the Mid-Columbia.