Lori Tobias

<p.Lori Tobias left her Pennsylvania hometown at 18 for a brief visit with her Air Force-enlisted sister in Alaska. She stayed eight years, studying journalism at the University of Alaska and marrying her husband Chan in an A-frame church with a view of Denali. She has since lived in Connecticut, Washington, Southern Oregon and Colorado. In her twenty-five years in journalism, she worked as a columnist and feature writer for the <i>Rocky Mountain News</i>, and covered the Oregon Coast as a staff writer for <i>The Oregonian</i>. She is a recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship. She currently lives on the Oregon Coast with her husband Chan and shelter rescue Mugsy.</p>