Jody Seay with Ellen Waterston, whose award-winning essays, short stories and poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies and reviews. In her collection of essays, Where the Crooked River Rises, (OSU Press, 2010) award-winning poet and author Ellen Waterston illuminates the people, places and landscape of Central Oregon\'s vast high desert. In June 2010, her poem Designed to Fly was read by Garrison Keillor on Writer\'s Almanac. She is the 2008 winner of the Oregon Quarterly Essay Competition, the 2007 recipient of the national Obsidian Prize in Poetry awarded by the High Desert Journal and in 2007 was named an Honorary Distinguished Professor of Humane Letters by Oregon State University/Cascades Campus for her accomplishments in the literary arts.