Ada Hastings Hedges was one of Oregon's foremost poets of the mid-twentieth century.
Alan Contreras is a graduate of the University of Oregon and its law school, he is retired from work in higher education. He is the author of several books published by Oregon State University Press, including Afield and Birds of Oregon, and has also published three poetry collections, a book on state regulation of colleges, and others. He lives in Eugene.
Ulrich Hardt is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College and the University of Oregon and has taught at Portland State University since 1974. He was managing editor of the six-volume Oregon Literature Series published by OSU Press with the Oregon Council of Teachers of English. He was editor of the award-winning Oregon English Journal for 28 years, and he is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oregon Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
