KIM STAFFORD grew up in Oregon, Iowa, Indiana, California, and Alaska, following his parents as they taught and traveled through the West. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, and the director of the Northwest Writing Institute and the William Stafford Center at Lewis & Clark College, where he has taught since 1979. He holds a Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Oregon, and has worked as a printer, photographer, oral historian, editor, and visiting writer at a host of colleges and schools. His book, Having Everything Right, won a citation for excellence from the Western States Book Awards in 1986. Stafford has received creative writing fellowships form the National Endowment for the Arts, a Governor's Arts Award for his contributions to Oregon's literary culture, and his work has been featured on National Public Radio. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and children.

Stafford will visit the College, Feb. 10-12, 2010.