In 1926, the Southern Pacific completed its north – south trek over the Cascade Mountains -Willamette Pass - connecting Natron, Lane County, Oregon, with Black Butte, Siskiyou County, California. She'll pass us, duck through one more tunnel, crossing over Salt Creek and US 58 dropping down into Oakridge, Oregon.įrom there, a pleasing down slope run through Oakridge, Springfield, taking a breather in Eugene. Back up the train, a trio of SD45’s are helping her fight the law of gravity! SP8954 and her partner are straining on the dynamics to hold back following TOFC from California.
She has received grants and fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Leni is on the MFA faculty at Portland State University.Natron Cutoff, Milepost 561, June 24, 1971. Leni Zumas is the author of the novel RED CLOCKS, the story collection FAREWELL NAVIGATOR, and the novel THE LISTENERS, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Collagist, Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art, The Elephants, GOOD, jubilat, New Orleans Review, Open City, Quarterly West, Salt Hill, Tin House, Two Serious Ladies, & elsewhere. The stories she heard from these women and her struggles to bring them meaningful access to healthcare echo through The Gloaming. She founded the Natron Healthcare Project to meet the needs of desperate women and children in two remote Masai villages. Now, living on a mountain in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom with her husband, a wildlife filmmaker, and their two children, she continues to run a small healthcare project in northern Tanzania. Both are set in East Africa, where she was raised and has lived and worked as a writer, journalist and filmmaker. Melanie Finn is the author of AWAY FROM YOU and THE GLOAMING. Northwest Academy Visiting Writers Series featuring:
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