Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast

About Kim Stafford

Kim Stafford has taught since 1979 at Lewis and Clark College where he is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute and codirector of the Documentary Studies program. He also serves as the literary executor for the estate of William Stafford. He has worked as an oral historian letterpress printer editor photographer teacher and visiting writer in communities and colleges across the country and in Italy Scotland and Bhutan. Stafford has published a dozen books of poetry and prose including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writers Craft; Early Morning: Remembering My Father William Stafford; and Having Everything Right: Essays of Place. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships the Oregon Governors Arts Award and a Western States Book Award.