The Authors of the OE
Susan R. Kephart, professor of biology at Willamette University, publishes on plant-pollinator interactions, species boundaries, and hybridization and on how scientists and reporters differ in their writing write wilderness, global climate change, and biodiversity. She has served on National Science Foundation panels, led Earthwatch Research Expeditions, and held offices for the Oregon Academy of Sciences and the Native Plant Society of Oregon. She works with diverse undergraduates and volunteers to restore native species to human-altered landscapes, with recent funding from the Oregon Community Foundation and M.J. Murdock Trust. She is an advocate for conservation, diversity, and local watersheds.
Doris Kimmel was co-chair for the Beverly Cleary Fountain project. She is currently the booking agent for her husband, author Eric A. Kimmel.
Eric A. Kimmel, a distinguished Oregon children's author, is professor emeritus of education at Portland State University. His books have won numerous awards, including the Caldecott Honor Medal, the Sydney Taylor Award, and the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award. In 2005, the Association of Jewish Libraries awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. Kimmel had the chance to meet and talk with Walt Morey at numerous conferences and literary events.
Aurora King is a 2010 graduate of Southern Oregon University, located in Ashland, Oregon. An avid outdoor enthusiast, and aspiring writer, Aurora is a lover of life.
Helen Johnston Kintner (nee McFetridge) studied music at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1949 with a bachelor of music degree. A member of Mu Phi Epsilon, she studied composition under Dr. Arnold Elston, music theory with Donald Allton, and piano with George Hopkins. At the University of Oregon, she was introduced to the music of composer Ernest Bloch, and she was an eyewitness to the lives of Ernest and Marguerite Bloch from 1946 to 1959. In February 2009, she completed The Ernest Bloch I Knew: The Agate Beach Years, which has not yet been released for publication.
Linda Kirk is retired from the Myrtle Point School District where she was a teacher and librarian.
Jody Klevit received a B.S. at Temple University and taught elementary school before moving to Oregon in 1964. She has been a docent at the Portland Art Museum, was a founder of PAM’s Native American Art Council, and has served on the boards of Chamber Music Northwest, Friends of Chamber Music, New Rose Theater, and the Oregon Jewish Museum. She is a member of Labor Arts Forum and a consultant for the Saward Art Collection and the Pittock Mansion Society. She is the author, with Ginny Allen, of Oregon Painters: The First Hundred Years (OHS Press).
Karl Klooster is a native Oregonian and the great-great-grand nephew of the founder of East Portland, James B. Stephens. He graduated from Lewis & Clark College and worked as an advertising and marketing executive in Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco, specializing in wines, beer, and spirits. He is a professional writer on wine, food, travel, biographical profiles, and social commentary, writes a weekly column for This Week Magazine, and is the Regional Editor and Wine Columnist for News-Register Publishing. He has authored two books on Portland history and is a guest lecturer on local history. He has earned writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Assn, and the National Newspaper Assn.
David Kludas, who lives in Portland, is a history buff who writes in his spare time. He is chipping away on a novel that takes place in Portland and concludes at the Oregon Centennial.
Jim Kopp is director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College. His scholarly interests are in utopian and communal studies, and is the author of Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage (OSU Press, 2009). Jim has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon, a master’s in history from the University of Portland, a master’s in library science from The Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in American Studies from George Washington University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Aurora Colony Historical Society.
