JOHN DANIEL
23030 W. Sheffler Road
Elmira, OR 97437
(541) 935-5507
johndaniel48@yahoo.com
www.johndaniel-author.net
Jobs and Appointments
Teacher, Yearlong Workshop in Memoir, Fishtrap Writers Conference and Gathering.
2009-10.
Visiting Professor, Intensive Master Class in Nonfiction, Portland State University.
Spring 2008.
Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, St. Lawrence University. Spring 2006.
Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, St. Mary’s College of California. Fall 2005.
Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, St. Lawrence University. 2004-05,
2003-04.
Research and Writing Fellow, and Visiting Professor of English, Center for the
Humanities, Oregon State University. 1997-98.
James Thurber Writer-in-Residence, Thurber House/Ohio State University. Spring 1996.
Writer-in-Residence, Sweet Briar College. Winter 1995.
Writer-in-Residence, Austin Peay State University. Spring 1991.
Adjunct Faculty, Northwest Writing Institute, Lewis & Clark College. 1988-93.
Poetry Editor, Wilderness Magazine. 1988-2011.
Lecturer in Freshman English, Stanford University. 1986-88.
Jones Lecturer in Poetry, Stanford University. 1983-88.
Brief teaching visits:
Portland State University, 2008; Lower Columbia Community College, 2002; Westminster University, 1998; University of Oregon, 1998; University of California at Santa Cruz, 1997; University of Portland, 1997; University of Nevada-Reno, 1996; University of Montana, 1995; Utah State University, 1994.
Conferences and Workshops Taught
Fishtrap Summer Conference and Gathering. Enterprise, Oregon. 2004, 2005, 2008,
2009, 2010, 2014, 2016.
(Fishtrap four-day workshop, 2003.)
(Fishtrap Winter Gathering, 1997.)
Kachemak Bay Writers Conference. Homer, Alaska. 2013.
Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Squaw Valley, California. Summer 2008, 2010,
2012, 2015, 2017.
Write on the Sound Writers Conference. Edmonds, Washington. 2011.
Watermark Literary Muster. Watermark Literary Society. Camden Haven, New South
Wales, Australia. 2009.
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Cascade Head, Oregon. Summer 2007.
The Nature of Words. Bend, Oregon. Fall 2005.
Sitka Symposium. The Island Institute. Sitka, Alaska. Summer 2003, 2001, 1998.
Washington Writers Conference. Central Washington University. Summer 1997.
The Art of the Wild. Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Squaw Valley, California.
Summers 1993-1999.
Education
Master of Arts in English/Creative Writing, Stanford University. 1986.
Undergraduate studies, Reed College. 1966-67 and 1969.
Publications
Nonfiction Books
The Far Corner: Views on Land, Life, and Literature. Essays. Paper edition.
Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2010.
The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature. Essays. Cloth
edition. Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2009.
Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone. Memoir. Paper edition. Washington, D.C.:
Shoemaker and Hoard, 2006.
Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone. Memoir. Cloth edition. Washington, D.C.:
Shoemaker and Hoard, 2005.
Winter Creek: One Writer’s Natural History. Memoir. Paper edition. Minneapolis:
Milkweed Editions, 2002.
Oregon Rivers (with photographer Larry N. Olson). Essays. Cloth edition. Englewood,
Colorado: Westcliffe Publishers, 1997.
Looking After: A Son’s Memoir. Paper edition. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1997.
Looking After: A Son’s Memoir. Cloth edition. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996.
The Trail Home: Nature, Imagination, and the American West. Essays. Expanded paper
edition. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.
The Trail Home. Essays. Cloth edition. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
Selected Nonfiction Anthologies
Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology. Bloomsbury, 2016.
Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest. University of Washington Press, 2011.
Working the Woods, Working the Sea: An Anthology of Northwest Writings. Empty Bowl
Press, 2008.
Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark. University of Nevada Press, 2008.
Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking. University of Nevada
Press, 2008.
The Future of Nature. Milkweed Editions, 2007.
Home Ground: A Literary Guide to American Landscape Terms. Trinity University
Press, 2006.
Writing the Journey: Essays, Stories, and Poems on Travel. Pearson Longman, 2005.
Best Essays NW: Perspectives from Oregon Quarterly Magazine. University of Oregon
Press, 2003.
Nature Writing: The Tradition in English. Norton, 2002. (Published in a trade paper
edition as The Norton Book of Nature Writing.)
American Nature Writing 1998. Sierra Club Books.
Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing. University of
California Press, 1998.
The Sacred Earth: Writers on Nature and Spirit. New World Library, 1998.
The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia’s Blue Ridge and
Shenandoah Valley. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision. Island Press, 1997.
The Geography of Hope. Sierra Club Books, 1996.
Facing the Lion: Writers on Life & Craft. Beacon Press, 1996.
American Nature Writing 1995. Sierra Club Books.
Northern Lights. Vintage Books, 1994.
Selected Nonfiction Periodicals
Audubon, Bloomsbury Review, Epoch, High Plains Literary Review, Hope, North American Review, Northwest Review, Open Spaces, Oregon Humanities, Orion, Outside, Resurgence, Sierra, Southwest Review, Stanford, Weber Studies, Western American Literature, Wilderness.
Poetry Collections
Of Earth: New and Selected Poems. Paper edition. Sandpoint, Idaho: Lost Horse Press,
2012.
Editor of Wild Song: Poems of the Natural World. Paper edition. Athens, Georgia:
University of Georgia Press, 1998.
All Things Touched by Wind. Paper edition. Anchorage, Alaska: Salmon Run Press, 1994.
Common Ground. Cloth and paper edition. Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, 1988.
Selected Poetry Anthologies
Wild in the Willamette. Oregon State University Press, 2015.
Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the
Southwest. University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Portland Lights. Nine Lights Press, 1999.
Wild Song: Poems of the Natural World. University of Georgia Press, 1998.
Poetry of the American West. Columbia University Press, 1996.
The Soul Unearthed. Tarcher, 1996.
Northern Lights. Vintage Books, 1994.
Poems for the Wild Earth. Blackberry Books, 1994.
From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry. Oregon State University
Press, 1994.
The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature. Peregrine-Smith, 1991.
The Uncommon Touch: Fiction and Poetry from the Stanford Writing Workshop.
Stanford Alumni Association, 1989.
The Pushcart Prize VIII: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press, 1983.
Selected Poetry Periodicals
The Amicus Journal, Bloomsbury Review, High Country News, ISLE, Metre, North American Review, Northern Lights, The Oregonian, Orion, Poetry, Seattle Review, Sierra, South Dakota Review, Southern Review, Southwest Review, Zone 3.
Seven poems read by Garrison Keillor on the Writer’s Almanac, 1993-2012.
“Awake in the Wind.” Poem with visual art on electronic placard in Kaiser Westside Medical Center, Beaverton, Oregon, 2013.
“Poem for Fern Ridge Library.” Poem printed as 274-foot frieze around the main interior spaces of Fern Ridge Library, Veneta, Oregon, 1999.
Fiction
Gifted, a novel. Forthcoming April 2017 from Counterpoint Press.
Awards, Honors, and Grants
Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction for The Far Corner: Northwestern Views
on Land, Life, and Literature. Literary Arts, 2011.
PNBA Book Award for Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone. Pacific Northwest
Booksellers Association. 2006.
Creative Writing Fellowship. National Endowment for the Arts. 1998-99.
Research and Writing Fellowship. Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University.
1997-98.
Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction for Looking After: A Son’s Memoir.
Literary Arts, 1997.
Oregon Literary Fellowship in Literary Nonfiction. Literary Arts. 1995.
John Burroughs Nature Essay Award for “Toward Wild Heartlands.” The John
Burroughs Association. 1995.
Andres Berger Award in Creative Nonfiction for “Cuttings,” an essay.
Northwest Writers. 1994.
Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, PEN Northwest/Boyden
Corporation. 1994.
Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction for The Trail Home. Literary Arts. 1993.
Finalist, Oregon Book Award in Poetry for Common Ground. Literary Arts, 1989.
Pushcart Prize for “The Longing,” a poem. 1983.
Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University. 1982-83.
Selected Talks and Panel Presentations
“The Practice of Writing.” Keynote address for Write on the Sound Writers Conference. Edmonds, Washington. 2011.
Watermark Literary Muster. Watermark Literary Society. Camden Haven, New South
Wales, Australia. 2009.
“The Cultivated Wild of Wallace Stegner.” Fourteenth Annual Symposium, Wallace
Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment. S. J. Quinney College of
Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. 2009.
Master of Ceremonies, Oregon Book Awards. Literary Arts. Portland, Oregon. 2008.
“Gathering the Waters: Writing Like a River.” Keynote address for Write on the River Writers Conference. Wenatchee, Washington. 2007.
“Twenty-one Fragments of Discovery.” Fishtrap Summer Gathering. Enterprise,
Oregon. 2004.
Master of Ceremonies, Oregon Book Awards. Literary Arts. Portland, Oregon. 2000.
“Death, Limits, and the Wholeness of Life.” Allen M. Boyden Memorial Lecture. St.
Vincent Medical Center, Portland. 1999.
“Seeing With Both Eyes.” Sitka Symposium. The Island Institute. Sitka, Alaska. 1998.
“The Province of Personal Narrative.” Center for the Humanities, Oregon State
University. 1998.
“Wallace Stegner’s Hunger for Wholeness.” University of Wisconsin. 1996.
“The Myth of Memory.” University of Montana. 1995.
“The Willful Wild: Wilderness and the Culture of Control.” O. C. Tanner Humanities
Lecture. Utah State University. 1994.
“The Poetry of Ecology.” Lewis-Clark State College. 1993.
Professional Memberships and Responsibilities
Judging Panel, John Burroughs Nature Essay Award. The John Burroughs
Association. 1999-present.
Chair, PEN Northwest. (Regional affiliate of PEN America, New York.)
1996-present.
Administrator, Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. 1995-present.
Board member, Literary Arts. 2007-2010.
Judge, Fishtrap Fellows applicants. Fishtrap, Inc. Enterprise, Oregon. 2009.
Judge, Oregon Quarterly third annual Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest. 2002.
Member, Associated Writing Programs.
Member, PEN American Center.
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