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OCTOBER 27�NOVEMBER 3, 2021
MIXED MEDIUM
THE ARTS AROUND
EASTERN OREGON
Join Fishtrap Fireside online Nov. 5
Enjoy readings from several
Wallowa County authors
Go! staff
JOSEPH — A special online
November episode of Fishtrap
Fireside will feature readings
from three Wallowa County
writers: Lauren MacDonald,
Randi Movich, and Amy Zahm.
The next episode is available
for streaming beginning Friday,
Nov. 5, at www.fishtrap.org and
on Fishtrap’s YouTube Channel.
Fishtrap Fireside is a month-
ly reading series designed to
feature diverse voices from
local writers. Each month of-
fers a fresh look at what people
of the West are thinking about
and writing down.
“This fall, we’re offering
Fireside virtually again,” said
Mike Midlo, Fishtrap’s program
director. “The advantage of
that is how many people can
enjoy these stories not only
here at home but share them
with friends and family wher-
ever they live.”
November’s Fishtrap Fire-
side is sponsored by local tea
purveyor, Sei Mee Tea.
NOVEMBER’S READERS
Lauren MacDonald works
with words while curiously
exploring the cosmos: plants,
stars, humans, mysteries, pat-
terns, roles, love, pain. Lau-
ren’s work is her expression of
experiencing the natural world
inside and out.
Raised in the wilds of the
San Fernando Valley, Randi
Movich could not wait to leave
the neighborhood for ocean
swims, camping, backpacking,
and skiing. That wanderlust
brought her to a life of work
and discovery in Marseille,
France, a Peace Corps assign-
ment in West Africa, six months
in Central and South America,
Lauren MacDonald
Randi Movich
Amy Zahm
graduate school in Idaho, a
stint in Eugene working at the
Western Environmental Law
Center, back to Guinea for two
years working with traditional
healers and midwives, then to
Ashland, Oregon, and finally to
Wallowa County. After almost
10 years as a nurse, her main
writing assignment is docu-
menting chart notes but after
attending Fishtrap’s Outpost
on the Snake River program
she rediscovered her desire to
write and wander again. When
not at Winding Waters Clinic or
out and about on trail, she can
be found on Alder Slope where
she lives with her husband,
Jeff, youngest daughter Rosie,
(middle daughter Tishrei is at
school in California and old-
est daughter Dawn Mist is six
blocks from Central Park), cat
October, dog Mia, and assorted
chickens.
Amy Zahm grew up in, ran
away from, and later returned
to Wallowa County and has
now lived here for two-thirds
of her life. She spends her time
in the mountains, valleys, and
canyons of Wallowa County
either on foot, on skis, or on
horseback. In addition to writ-
ing, she is a doctor of acupunc-
ture and oriental medicine and
uses yoga to ease her patients’
pain. Her writing focuses on
the connections between
place, history, a discovery of
self, and the “ways in which a
perfectly ordinary life might
provide some sort of insight
into the magical world we each
inhabit.” Her work has been
published online at Atticus
Review, Streetlight, Manifest-
Station, and Jenny, and in print
at The Normal School, Post
Road and Oregon East. She
received her MFA in Creative
Writing from Eastern Oregon
University.