Bette Lynch Husted Author

Bette Lynch Husted has taught in rural high schools and a community college in Oregon, Washington, and Montana, and now lives in Pendleton. Her first collection of memoir essays, Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land (OSU Press), was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the WILLA Award in creative nonfiction. She is also the author of At This Distance: Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon) and a second collection of memoir essays, Lessons from the Borderlands (Plain View Press). Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Prairie Schooner, Oregon Humanities, High Desert Journal, Northwest Review, and other journals. Recipient of a Fishtrap Fellowship and 2007 Oregon Arts Commission award, she brings Northwest writers to Pendleton for the First Draft Writers’ Series at Pendleton Center for the Arts.