Poetry, memoir ---- Dean Metcalf

DEAN METCALF BIO 2014

BORN: January 23, 1943, Denver, Colorado

Education: Grade schools in Pacific Northwest. Graduated Klamath Falls (OR) Union High School, 1961. 1 yr. engineering study, Oregon State University, 1961-62. Combined major in philosophy and political science, Colorado College, 1966-69. Graduated cum laude; Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Advanced Russian language study, Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, Leningrad, USSR, summer 1969. Graduate study in History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary doctoral program in the humanities, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1969-71; 1972. Advanced to doctoral candidacy, 1972.

MILITARY: United States Marine Corps (radio operator), 1962-66: California, Okinawa, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Japan, Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea. Vietnam 1965-66.

MARRIAGE: 1983-95; February 2009 – present.

WORK: Ranch work, vacuum cleaner repair, busboy, furniture mover, dishwasher. Graduate teaching assistant in Political Philosophy for Professor Sheldon Wolin, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1970-71. Commercial fisherman aboard albacore and yellowfin tuna boats Anna Marie, Dora B., Juliet from northern British Columbia to southern Baja California, 1971-72. California Building Contractor, 1976-2002. Freelance journalist, 1968: California, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos. 1982-92: California, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico. 1991: Jordan, Israel, occupied West Bank, Gaza. Published in Denver Post, ClevelandPlain Dealer, San Jose (CA) Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Village Voice, South Africa Weekly Mail, Oakland (CA)Tribune, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Review of Books, and elsewhere. Articles distributed by Pacific News Service, San Francisco.

Oregon Building contractor, 1996-2009. Logging work; log house construction, martial arts instructor. Wildland firefighter, 2002.

OTHER INTERESTS: Long distance mountain trail running: Western States 100 mile trail run (Squaw Valley to Auburn, CA) in less than 24 hours, 4X. Martial arts: trained under Master Timothy Dunphy, Watsonville Tae Kwon Do Academy, since October, 1988. Founder/instructor, Wallowa County Taekwondo Academy, 1997 – present. Third degree black belt, April 2007. Self defense instructor, Safe Harbors Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services Program, Wallowa County, Oregon. Reading, especially history, literature, poetry. Archery; bowhunting. Writing: poetry, memoir, fiction.

AUTHOR: RATTLESNAKE DREAMS: An American Warrior’s Story (memoir), 2011.