Don Colburn is a writer in Portland, Oregon. His fourth collection of poems, a chapbook titled Tomorrow Too: The Brenda Monologues, is due out in late 2013. Its 14-line monologues tell a story he first reported in the newspaper about a pregnant woman facing breast cancer. His first chapbook, Another Way to Begin, won the Finishing Line Press Poetry Prize, and his full-length book, As If Gravity Were a Theory, won the Cider Press Review Book Award. A longtime reporter for The Washington Post and The Oregonian, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. He is a graduate of Amherst College and has an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Colburn’s poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest and Southern Poetry Review. His many writing honors include the Discovery/The Nation Award and two fellowships at The MacDowell Colony. He is a board member of Friends of William Stafford.