I was also considering going to graduate school at the University of Oregon to get my MFA in fiction, moved to Eugene, applied to the program there but didn’t get in. The reason I sort of ended up in Oregon is because there are a lot of really great rivers there for kayaking and you can paddle year round. Whitewater kayaking has been a pretty big part of my life since about the age of eighteen, I was working as a whitewater kayaker when I was nineteen. Was there anything that initially drew you there?Ī: From Wisconsin, I ended up in Oregon after going to college in Arizona and living there for a while. Q: You’ve lived in Oregon for the past several years. Originally from Northern Wisconsin, he now lives in Oregon. He thinks riding bikes uphill is fun, sandwiches are better with potato chips, and that no one should go to bed without a cookie. He’s been awarded a Fishtrap Writing Fellowship, as well as two residency fellowships at PLAYA. His writing and photography have appeared in a variety of publications, including Canoe & Kayak, BULL, Narrative, Beloit Fiction Journal, CutBank, and Passages North. Eliot Treichel is the author of the YA novel A Series of Small Maneuvers and the story collection Close Is Fine, which received the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award.
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