David HedgesPoet and writer David Hedges, descendant of early Oregon Trail pioneers, lives and writes in the rolling hills above West Linn, Oregon. A graduate of Lake Oswego High School, he attended Oregon State College (now University) for three years before drpping out and heading to New York City's Greenwich Village, and the chair at the White Horse Tavern occupied a few years earlier by Dylan Thomas. Returning to Oregon, he graduated from Portland State College (now University). For the next 34 years, he worked as a writer, editor, and producer in the fields of journalism, public relations, advertising, and politics, winning numerous awards. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Measure, Poet Lore, Light Quarterly, Able Muse, The Christian Science Monitor, Trinacria, and, closer to home, Calapooya Collage, Left Bank, Northwest Magazine, and Windfall. He served on the Oregon Poetry Association board for 24 years, six as president, and on the board of the Portland Poetry Festival. He has been a member of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission board since 1988. He co-founded, with State Librarian Jim Scheppke and Poet Laureate Lawson Inada, the Oregon Poetry Collection, now housed in Knight Library at the University of Oregon. At the 2003 Oregon Book Awards, he received the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for his contributions to Oregon's literary life. Interests include ancient to antique glass and stone trade beads, early 20th century poster stamps, Scottish Deerhounds, and the wilds of Southeastern Oregon's Empty Quarter, the darkest area in the Lower 48 on satellite photos. Read More Read Less