The Authors of the OE
Lawrence M. Lipin is professor of history at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. He has published two books, Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1854-87 (University of Illinois Press, 1994) and Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30 (University of Illinois Press, 2007), and articles on manhood and class conflict, craft dilution and the anti-Chinese movement, and progressive era politics in Oregon. He is currently working on Henry George, the single tax, and the meaning of "nature" in New York City politics.
Meryl Lipman holds a Masters in writing from PSU. She works as community relations manager for Portland Community College and has written freelance for local and national publications. In her spare time she mentors young women with eating disorders and she loves to walk, hike, read and jump out of airplanes.
David J. Loftus was born in Eugene, the oldest son of Donald and Mitzi Loftus. He graduated from Marshfield High School in Coos Bay, and from Harvard College with a bachelor’s in English. Loftus was a reporter for the Roseburg News-Review for three years, and is the author of three books. Currently he is an actor and free-lance writer in Portland, where he lives with his wife, Carole Barkley.
Mitzi Loftus was born in Hood River of immigrant parents from Japan (father, 1904; mother, 1911). She graduated from Hood River High School and received B.A. and M.A. degrees from University of Oregon. She taught for three years at Creswell High School before attending the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan to prepare for a Fulbright Teacher year in Japan in 1957-1958. Loftus lived for fourteen years in Eugene and in Germany for two years. After returning from Europe, she lived in Coos Bay for over thirty years, substitute teaching for all but one. She moved to Ashland in 2004.
Glen A. Love is professor of English, emeritus, at the University of Oregon, where he taught from 1965 to 2000. He is the author of critical books and articles on American literature, emphasizing western, northwestern, and environmental topics. He is former president of the Western Literature Association and the Pacific Northwest American Studies Association and has twice been a Fulbright visiting professor in Europe. An early proponent of the study of literature and environment, he and his biologist wife, Rhoda, published the first anthology on modern environmental issues in 1970. His latest work is Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment (2003).
Rhoda Love was one of the first botany instructors at Lane Community College. She taught biology and botany there from 1966-1975 and 1986-1995. The Rowe-Love Herbarium was named in her honor in 2004.
David Lunde is the manager of the bookstore/gift shop at the Interpretive Center of the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and a member of the board of directors of Friends of the South Slough. He is a poet and translator whose work has been widely published in magazines and anthologies. He is the author of Blues for Port City (1995), Heart Transplants & Other Misappropriations (1996), Nightfishing in Great Sky River (1999), and Instead (2007) and is the translator of The Carving of Insects (with Mary M.Y. Fung, 2006), which won the 2007 PEN USA Translation Award, and Breaking the Willow (2008).
Gordon R. Lyford received a bachelor’s degree in engineering of agricultural systems in 1975 from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in irrigation and drainage in 1981 from the University of California at Davis. He is a registered agricultural engineer in Oregon and California and a certified water right examiner in Oregon. He retired in 2006 after working for the U.S. Department of the Interior for thirty-one years. Currently, he is an associate director of the Illinois Valley Soil and Water Conservation District and Watershed Council. He lives in O'Brien.
Barbara Mahoney is a historian and biographer. In 2003, she won an Oregon Book Award for Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune, a biography of Oregon native Ralph Barnes, European correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during the 1920s and 1930s.
Tim Mahoney, a physician by profession, has a longtime interest in classical music, which led to his service on the boards of the Oregon Symphony in Salem and of the Oregon Symphony in Portland. He was a member of the search committee that recruited James DePreist to be the music director of the Oregon Symphony.
