Charles Finn Author & Editor

Kim Stafford is Emeritus Professor at Lewis & Clark College, Oregon, USA, where he founded the Northwest Writing Institute and taught for over thirty years. His twelve books of poetry and prose include, The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft (2003) and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared (2012). His most recent book is the poetry collection Singer Come from Afar (2021). He has taught writing in the US, Scotland, Italy, Mexico, and Bhutan. In 2018 he was named Oregon’s 9th Poet Laureate for a two-year term. Charles Finn is the former editor of the literary and fine arts magazine High Desert Journal and author of Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters (2012) and On aBenediction of Wind: Poems and Photographs from the American West (2022). His essays, poems, and nonfiction have been published in a wide variety of journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies across the United States.