Carolyn Lamberson is a longtime Pacific Northwest newspaper journalist who has worked at daily newspapers in Eugene, Roseburg, Bend, Vancouver, and Spokane. A former features editor for The Spokesman-Review, she covered music, visual arts, literary arts, and theater in the Inland Northwest. While there, she created and curated the newspaper’s annual short fiction series, Summer Stories, which in its 10-year run featured works by authors such as Jess Walter, Jamie Ford, Sharma Shields, Tiffany Midge, and Shawn Vestal. She now lives with her family in Central Oregon, where in her spare time she enjoys sitting along the banks of the Deschutes River and knitting.