This site is curated by Michael N. McGregor, who has lived in Washington and Oregon most of his life. A Seattle native, he earned a journalism degree from the University of Oregon while spending his college summers as a wildland firefighter on Mt. Hood. After graduation, he returned to Seattle to work as writer and editor for World Concern, a relief and development agency serving people in need throughout the developing world.
More recently, McGregor earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in NY and taught creative writing for 17 years at Portland State University. Since retiring from fulltime teaching in 2017, he has split his time between Seattle and the San Juan Islands, with regular returns to Portland. In 2022, he was named the Oregon Historical Society’s Donald J. Sterling, Jr. Senior Research Fellow in Pacific Northwest History.
To read more about McGregor’s work, go to michaelnmcgregor.com.
