Steve Dieffenbacher

Steve Dieffenbacher's poem, "Emptiness," was the winner of the 2010 Cloudbank poetry prize sponsored by Cloudbank magazine of Corvallis, Oregon. His poems are also included in Deer Drink the Moon, a 2007 anthology of Oregon poetry published by the Ooligan Press at Portland State University; in the chapbooks Universe of the Unsaid, 2009; Voices of the Siskiyou, 2006; and At the Boudary, 2001. His work is also in the anthology, Intricate Homeland: Collected Writings form the Klamath Siskiyou, published in 2000, and in A Path Through Stone, a cycle of poems with three other co-authors. He works for the Mail Tribune newspaper in Medford, where he writes a monthly travel column with a focus on nature called Explorations. He has lived in Oregon since 1989.

Emptiness

Late Autumn