![]() 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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