Recent Publications by Alumni

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  Kurt Nelson M.P.A. ’98 writes about the clash between native and non-native populations in the Pacific Northwest from 1853 to 1859, a key period in the region’s history in his new book Treaties and Treachery: The Northwest Indians’ Resistance to Conquest.
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  Matt Love M.A.T. ’88 blends an eclectic variety of literary genres—along with more than 100 photos—in this homage to Newport’s Yaquina Bay Bridge, Love & The Green Lady.
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  Allen Webb, M.A.T. ‘86, earned his degree in Language Arts and after six years of teaching high school went on to earn a Ph.D. and become a professor of English at Western Michigan University. In 2011, he published three books on literacy instruction—all at once. His books are Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds: Immersive Learning in English Studies, Teaching Literature of Today’s Middle East, and Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core Standards.
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  Lisa Cach M.A. ’96 has written a young adults that follows a teen’s journey to a boarding school in France and her dreamscape encounters with a handsome boy from the 1500s. It’s called Wake Unto Me.
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  Steven Hawley M.A.T. ’96, a journalist and self-proclaimed “river rat,” argues that the best hope for the Snake River lies in dam removal, a solution that pits the power authorities and Army Corps of Engineers against a collection of Indian tribes, farmers, fishermen, and river recreationists, in his new book Recovering a Lost River: Removing Dams, Rewilding Salmon, Revitalizing Communities.
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  Donald Altman, M.A. ‘04, brings the benefits of mindfulness down to earth and into everyday life. With fifty exercises and practices to build awareness and center attention, you will discover how to savor routine pleasures, build fulfillment in your work, enhance and heal relationships, change unhealthy habits, and connect to peace even in the midst of chaos or uncertainty.
  New World Library, 2011. 200 pages.
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  Frustrated with life, teaching, and the inability to become a writer, Matt Love M.A.T. ‘88 escaped Portland in 1997 at 33 years of age and moved to the Oregon Coast. A year later he became caretaker of the 600-acre Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge. During his decade (1998-2008) as caretaker, he helped restore the grounds to fuller ecology, discovered a love for teaching, and reinvented himself as a writer and historian who established Nestucca Spit Press and eventually won the 2009 Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award from Oregon Literary Arts. Gimme Refuge is his passionate 177-page account of his teaching career, experience as caretaker, and awakening as an Oregonian.
• Donald Altman M.A. ‘04 explores the four keys to mindfulness—mind, body, spirit, and relationships—in 11 concise, straightforward chapters in The Mindfulness Code.
  New World Library, 2010. 272 pp.
• Tim Gillespie, M.A. ‘04, who has taught in public schools for almost four decades, has found in the lenses of literary criticism a powerful tool for helping students tackle challenging literary texts in his new book, Doing Literary Criticism: Helping Students Engage with Challenging Texts.
  Stenhouse, 2010. 324 pp.
• In Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing, Penny Ann Kittle, M.A.T. ‘89, writes, “This is a book about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I’ve been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This is the book I wanted when I was first given ninth graders and a list of novels to teach. This is a book of vision and hope and joy, but it is also a book of genre units and minilessons and actual conferences with students.”
  Heinemann, 2008, 272 pages.