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Editor: Corey Oglesby

Poetry Editor: Sheryl Noethe

From 2011–2013, Sheryl Noethe served as Montana’s Poet Laureate. Born and raised in Minnesota, Sheryl attended a high school alternative program, Urban Arts, which allowed her to learn to write poetry. After winning the The American Academy of Poets Award and a McKnight Fellowship, she published her first collection of poetry, The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake (New Rivers Press, 1984).

Now living at the foot of Mt. Jumbo in Missoula, Montana, Sheryl is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Montana Arts Council Fellowship, the Cutbank Hugo Prize in Poetry, and the Emerging Voices Award from New Rivers Press. She has also received an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. Her second poetry collection, The Ghost Openings (Grace Court Press, 2000), was awarded the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award and the William Stafford Poetry Prize. Her most recent collection, As Is, was published by Lost Horse Press in 2009.

She has also co-written and published Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community (now in its third edition), which contains 65 writing exercises and more than 400 example poems. It also discusses how to integrate poetry writing into the English class and essential topics such as sound and rhythm, traditional poetic forms, inventing and adapting exercises, revision, and publishing.

Board of Directors

Elizabeth Quinn is an artist and co-director of Fieldworks Consulting. Since April 2018, Fieldworks Consulting has helped launch residency programs around the country. Clients include: at Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, Virginia; Pine Meadow Ranch in Sisters, Oregon; NM Bodecker Foundation in Portland, Oregon; and The Volland Foundation in Volland, Kansas. Fieldworks Consulting has also worked with different organizations to help facilitate meetings, do organizational assessments and strategic planning including Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon; Creative Arts Industries Commission of Kansas; Chamber Music at the BARN in Maize, Kansas; Playa; and In A Landscape based in Portland, Oregon.

Before Fieldworks Consulting formed, Quinn was the Programs Director at Caldera in Oregon. As part of Caldera’s Leadership Team, Quinn helped provide strategic and creative direction for all of Caldera programs and initiatives. In 2015, Caldera received the National Arts and Humanities for Young People Award from the White House. In 2016, Quinn was selected for the National Guild for Community Arts Education’s Leadership Institute. Previous to her work at Caldera, Elizabeth was the Founding Editor of High Desert Journal and was the Executive Director of The Dalles Art Association.

Robert Stubblefield has published fiction and personal essays in Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, Best Stories of the American West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Left Bank, The Clackamas Literary Review, Cascadia Times, Oregon Humanities, Oregon Salmon: Essays on the State of the Fish at the Turn of the Millennium, Open Spaces, basalt, Southern Humanities Review, Whitefish Review, and High Desert Journal among others. Awards include a Georges and Anne Borchardt scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Fishtrap Fellowship, and Imhaha Writers’ Retreat Fellowship. Robert grew up in Eastern Oregon and now lives in Missoula, Montana and teaches at the University of Montana.

Stacy Boe Miller grew up in a small town in Wyoming near the Black Hills. She currently lives in northern Idaho. Stacy is a poet and nonfiction writer, and received her MFA from the University of Idaho. Her work can be found in Northwest Review, River Teeth's Beautiful Things, Terrain.org, Copper Nickel, and other journals. She currently serves as the Poet Laureate of the city of Moscow. Find out more at stacyboemiller.com.