The Authors of the OE
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.
Ian MacMillan is a retired internist and rheumatologist residing in the Charbonneau area of Wilsonville ,Oregon. He received his MD CM from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and specialty training at the Mayo Clinic. In 1961 he joined Northwest Permanente where in addition to clinical practice served in numerous administrative capacities over a period of thirty five years. He is author of Permanente in the Northwest (The Permanente Press Portland Oregon 2010).
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.
Kimberley Mangun is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Utah. She is a journalism historian who studies the African American press in the West and representations of race, ethnicity, and gender in newspapers published during the nineteenth century. Her book about Beatrice Morrow Cannady, a civil rights activist who lived in Portland from 1912 until 1936, will be published in 2010 by Oregon State University Press. Dr. Mangun has had other articles published in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and American Journalism. She received her doctorate from the University of Oregon.
Joy Margheim is a graduate student in urban studies at Portland State University.
Judith Margles is the Executive Director of the Oregon Jewish Museum. Previously she served as the Curator at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. She has consulted on exhibit projects for many institutions in the Portland area, including the First Unitarian Church, Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, Fair Housing Council of Oregon, Linfield College of Nursing, Oregon Historical Society, and Oregon Area Jewish Committee. She is a member of the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, serves on the board of the Old Town History Project, and is President-Elect of the Council of American Jewish Museums.
Steve Mark is the author of Preserving the Living Past: John C. Merriam’s Legacy in the State and National Parks (University of California Press, 2005) and other publications on the history of conservation. He is currently at work on a book about state parks, particularly those on the Oregon Coast, as a study of how such landscapes are perceived, used, and promoted.
Kevin R. Marsh is associate professor and graduate program director in the history department at Idaho State University in Pocatello. He is the author of Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest, the most thorough study to date of wilderness history in Oregon and Washington. He is the editor of Idaho Yesterdays, the scholarly journal of the Idaho State Historical Society, and a board member of the Idaho Humanities Council. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Marsh has taught Northwest history at several universities in the region.
