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Posted 8/5/2009 10:25 AM PDT on statesmanjournal.com
Michele Longo Eder of Newport is the 2009 winner of the Willa Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction for her book “Salt in Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife.”
The award is given by Women Writing the West, a nonprofit association of writers, editors, publishers and other professionals. Recipients are chosen by a panel of 21 professional librarians.
“Salt in Our Blood” recounts the story of Eder’s life as a commercial fisherman’s wife, a mother and a successful attorney on the Oregon coast. Set against the sudden loss at sea of the Eders’ oldest son, Ben, it is a tale of one family's strength and resilience.
A native of upstate New York, the author graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1976. She moved to Portland to attend law school at Lewis & Clark and has practiced law on the Oregon Coast for almost 30 years.
She serves on the board of directors of the North Pacific Research Board, and is a commissioner with the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
—Barbara Curtin
Michele Eder’s book on Oregon Crabbing best book on fishing I have read in years
Seafood.com News By John Sackton, Sep 17 2008
The book, Salt in Our Blood, tells the story of the dungeness crabbing seasons in 2000 and 2001 from the pages of Michele’s journal. She introduces us to Bob Eder, whom she married in 1988, who became one of the highliner fishermen on the West Coast for dungeness and sablefish, and who owned two boats, the larger one which he fished himself, and the smaller one with a hired captain...
She talks of going in and out through the bar - how the weather dictates what is possible and what isn’t.
But above all what shines through is the satisfaction of winning at fishing: setting crab pots on just the right spot to come up with a huge catch. Finding black cod when few others are getting any. Knowing that the economic success of your own business, your crew, and their families all depend on the knowledge and skill of your husband and his crew...Click here for entire article
Michele Longo Eder is a tenacious advocate for those on the sea
by Lori Tobias, The Oregonian
Sunday September 07, 2008, 9:45 PM
NEWPORT -- Michele Longo Eder is explaining her fondness for George W. Bush when a Coast Guard helicopter whirs past her oceanfront kitchen window. Her mouth freezes, a hand goes to her throat and her eyes fill.
The orange helicopter passes from view. Eder passes a fingertip beneath each eye, takes a breath and picks up the thread of how this lifelong Democrat wound up appointed and recently reappointed by President Bush to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
Before she can explain further, her cell phone interrupts with a call from a client. And that, in brief, is Michele Longo Eder: successful attorney, fisherman's wife, grieving mother, advocate.
At 54, she is known for speaking her mind -- often loudly. She's an Oregonian who spent two minutes talking to Bush about the commercial fishing industry and wound up with a request from the White House for her resume.
She is, says friend and colleague Brandon Mayfield, someone tough on the outside and soft in the center.
Now she adds one more chapter to the book that is her life: author. This month, Eder debuts her first book: "Salt in Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife."...Click here for entire article.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
THE ARTS: Newport author gives a glimpse of fishing family life
By JULIA MABRY - Coast Weekend
Michele Longo Eder wasn't born into a fishing family, and being a lawyer from upstate New York, she seems the unlikeliest of women to proudly wear her self-affixed label: fisherman's wife.
When she first moved to Newport 20 years ago, it must have seemed unlikely even to her. But she fell in love with a fisherman, and with his two young sons Dylan and Ben, and founded a family...Click here to read entire article.
Oregon Coast Today
'Salt In Our Blood'
Newport fisherman's wife publishes her memoirs
Sep 26, 2008 - Part 2: Page 20
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