Waterston, Ellen

Ellen Waterston is the author of "Between Desert Seasons, Poems; I Am Madagascar;" and "Then There Was No Mountain, " a memoir selected by the Oregonian as one of the top ten books in 2003 and a finalist for Foreword Book-of-the-Year and WILLA book awards. She is founder and president of the Writing Ranch and founder and director of The Nature of Words. Waterston ranched in Oregon's high desert for nearly two decades before moving to Bend, Oregon.