Ellen Waterston

Recent interview with The Bulletin’s David Jasper April 2026

For more readings and video clips, visit Oregon Poet Laureate

Listen to Jefferson Public Radio July 22, 2024 interview with Ellen and Heidi Hagemeier, Director of Communications at the High Desert Museum, as they talk about their upcoming nature intensive, Lost in Place.

Listen to Ellen Waterston’s January 26, 2023 podcast titled “Bend Don’t Break: The Writer’s Life,” hosted by the Source Weekly.

WATCH ELLEN’S 2011 INTERVIEW ON OREGON ART BEAT 27:39
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Writers Reading: The Source Weekly Annual Poetry Contest
Watch this YouTube video of poets, including Ellen Waterston, reading their winning submissions. Co-produced by the Source Weekly, the Deschutes Public Library and the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Oregon State University-Cascades.

READ Ellen’s monthly column in the Source Weekly, “The Third Act,” a column on ageism and aging.

Watch Ellen’s January 21, 2021 interview, “Sense of Place,” with Source Weekly’s Aaron Switzer and Laurel Braun “Bend Don’t Break” Series.

LISTEN to Ellen’s December 9, 2020 interview with Dave Miller on OPB’s “Think Out Loud.”
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READ a review of Walking the High Desert by John Harrington Jr. in the December 2020 issue of the Journal of Geography.

READ a review of Walking the High Desert by C. L. Johnson, from CHOICEconnect October 2020, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

LISTEN TO ELLEN’S INTERVIEW October 2020 with Alan Chartock of NPR station WAMC in Albany, NY about Walking the High Desert (20:00)