Tina Ontiveros

Tina Ontiveros is a Pacific Northwest writer and teacher who lives at the foot of Mount Hood and teaches at Columbia Gorge Community College. She grew up below the federal poverty line in small Oregon and Northwest towns, often moving with her father's work in timber country. Her memoir rough house (OSU Press) won a 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award and was a 2022 Oregon Book Award finalist. She has contributed two essays to Oregon Humanities Magazine, in 2019 and 2020.