Mark Blaine is an award-winning writer, investigative reporter and editor. Most recently, he was the editor of Forest Magazine, a national environmental magazine dealing with public land policy issues. He continues to write and consult for Forest. Blaine worked for four years at the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times as an editor and investigative reporter in the mid 1990s. Blaine is the author of Whitewater: The Thrill and Skill of Running the World’s Great Rivers (Black Dog and Leventhal, 2001) and was a ghost writer for To the Sea (Black Dog and Leventhal, 2000). In addition to Forest, his work has appeared in Oregon Humanities and Oregon Quarterly. His essay, “Waiting out the Wind,” was included in the anthology Best Essays NW from the University of Oregon Press.

Blaine is a graduate of the Literary Nonfiction writing program at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Blaine teaches in the magazine sequence and advises professional master’s and literary nonfiction students. His writing interests include environmental issues and adventure sports.