Don Colburn lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is a reporter for The Oregonian. He had two collections of poetry published in 2006. His chapbook, Another Way to Begin, won the Finishing Line Press Prize. His full-length book, As If Gravity Were a Theory, won the Cider Press Review Book Award. He has an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, he worked for many years at The Washington Post.

Don Colburn has that rare, consoling gift: a pure lyric voice, nature bathed in what Keats called poetry’s “drainless shower of light.”  In Another Way to Begin, the world happens again, opening into meaning, in the rich music of its saying.

       -- Eleanor Wilner, poet and MacArthur Fellow