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 About the Author
As a writer, he’s been professionally active as a lyricist (Oregon Cabaret Theatre, the duo Prevailing Winds, singer Carol Valentine), journalist (eighty articles in regional magazines, as well as publication in the San Francisco Chronicle, music business trade magazines, album liner notes and promotional materials for internationally known recording artists), novelist (Just Accidents, unpublished), and technical writer (two software manuals). He also authored a one-of-a-kind hand-made book integrating photographic and verbal visions at Wilbur Hot Springs in northern California, while resident artist there in 1992. He discovered he had cancer while living there, and endured a significant but successful battle to regain health. For the past seven years, he has been editor of The Jefferson Monthly, a regional magazine which reaches southern Oregon and northern California through its affiliation with Jefferson Public Radio, now physically the largest public radio operation in the country. He also currently serves as music director for JPR, and daily on-air host of the eclectic music show Open Air (a portion of his show can be heard online each weekday at www.ijpr.org). Previously, he was the local morning newscaster and regional host of NPR’s Morning Edition for the network. His professional creative credits include nearly twenty years in the music business, including work at three record labels—most recently as national promotions director for Kaleidoscope Records, an eclectic label which featured the original David Grisman Quintet release, the entire catalog of folk music legend Kate Wolf, the Grammy-nominated a cappella group The Bobs, and many others. He also worked with former Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year Holly Near at Redwood Records, helping to administer the nonprofit division of her label; and was briefly partner with Robert Haber, President of CMJ, Inc., one of the country’s key music trade magazines, in the effort to launch their online operations in the web’s formative days. His
education would have predicted none of this: he holds a degree in applied
mathematics from Harvey Mudd College (Class of ’81), of the country’s
top science and engineering colleges, and was an aerospace engineer in
the early ‘80s, working on infrared sensor systems for satellites
at Aerojet ElectroSystems. In the transition periods, he has worked in
many diverse and temporary capacities, including as an assistant for a
quadriplegic attorney, as administrative assistant for the top brass of
a major software company, pinball machine repairman, Internet marketing
specialist for an online Currently living in Ashland, Oregon, he wonders what’s next. |
Eric
Alan began to find his connection to nature at a young age, in the wilderness
of suburban Los Angeles — Pasadena, to be exact. His explicit recognition
of nature as a cathedral and spiritual path came later, while pursuing
the integration of writing, photography and music. His nature photography
has been featured in galleries in Oregon and California, and has been
published, displayed and distributed in many other places and forms. He
also has professionally photographed minor league baseball (spending a
summer doing so for a farm team of the Oakland A’s), weddings and
more.