About the author
David Oates writes nonfiction and poetry about urban life and the natural world. Most recently he explored the urban experience in City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary. In his ground-breaking book Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature he challenged environmental sacred cows. His personal essays are widely read in newspapers, through Writers on the Range Syndicate, and in popular, environmental, and scholarly periodicals, including Creative Nonfiction, Earth Island Journal, Orion (forthcoming), High Country News, Northern Lights, etc. In Portland he teaches the Wild Writers Seminar and writing courses at Clark College, Marylhurst University, and (starting in Summer of 2010) Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Video Interview - “David Oates and the Value of Story” (courtesy Chani Becker/HotHouse Design) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIkFgXjxbw4, also visible at http://www.mrcse.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99:david-oates-the-values-of-story&catid=65:narratives-for-the-future&Itemid=115
Interview at Creative Nonfiction http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue27/27oates_ai.htm