Bette Lynch Husted lives in Eastern Oregon, the dry side of a notoriously wet state, where she studies T’ai Chi and welcomes Northwest writers to Pendleton’s First Draft Writers’ Series. Her drive to her Portland-area Side Porch Poets workshop group takes her through the Columbia Gorge, where she sees bighorn sheep, bald eagles, coyotes—once, even a mountain goat. She has been a Fishtrap fellow, an Oregon Arts Commission recipient and a finalist for both the Oregon Book Award and the WILLA Award in creative non-fiction. She writes a monthly column, From Here to Anywhere, for the East Oregonian.