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Tolkien, Kurosawa, Le Guin, Brin, Cherryh, Pirsig, Studio Ghibli.

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Risa Bear farms one acre in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. A former tree planter, forest fire fighter, and timber cruiser, she retired in 2009 after twenty years at the University of Oregon and holds the M.A. in English and M.S. in Arts Management. She edited and compiled the pioneering e-text website, Renascence Editions. Here's her Amazon author page. ...more

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Risa Stephanie Bear If I feel I have something more to contribute by writing about an insight than just modeling it, I write. Usually I'm at my best late at night.…moreIf I feel I have something more to contribute by writing about an insight than just modeling it, I write. Usually I'm at my best late at night.(less)
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Some Things Will

In a garden's grave, life remains: beets
Never pulled may be pulled now, to boil

And put back, for the flock to discover;

Greens have carried on and are taken
And dehydrated, or left for the goose to strip;
Red highlights show missed tomatoes;
Dense thickets of dead vines give beans.
Even the weeds, that had defeated her,
Now yield rich heads of seed for hens.
She walks about, coat-wrapped, scanning

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Risa Bear New book in UK: The Grace at the Heart of the World by Risa Stephanie Bear https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grace-Heart-...?

ISBN10 1908309024
ISBN13 978-1908309020


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Risa Bear Starvation Ridge now available on Kobo along with five other titles, at lower cost than on Lulu, iBooks, B&N, or Kindle! http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eboo...


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Risa Bear Short URL for Amazon author page http://amazon.com/author/risabear


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Risa Bear Risa's books at Barnes & Noble

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Risa Bear Katrin Orav illustration for Starvation Ridge: "The Eagles Nest." http://t.co/7MJNWGkFjk http://t.co/CJrAgDhKCE


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Risa Bear Iron Buddhas, Risa's 1970s forestry memoir, will be bookblogged over the next few months, with one update per week. http://ironbuddhas.blogspot.com/


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Risa Bear Viewing Jasper Mountain, Risas's homesteading journal, will be bookblogged over the next few months, with one update per week. http://viewingjaspermountain.blogspot...


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Risa Bear Homecomings, Risa's transition journal, will be bookblogged, all twenty chapters, over the next few months, with updates every week. http://homecomingsrisabear.blogspot.com/


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Katrin Orav, cover artist, is happy with her copies of Starvation Ridge. http://katrinorav.wordpress.com/
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Risa Bear Iron Buddhas is now on Kindle $2.99 http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Buddhas-Ri... … A memoir of 1970s tree planting, firefighting, Pacific Northwest.


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Risa Bear Homecomings is now on Kindle. $2.99 http://www.amazon.com/Homecomings-Ris... … … #risabear #memoir #reallifetest #grs #srs #mtf #m2f


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