High Desert Journal is thrilled to announce new additions to our Board of Directors! Please welcome Robert Stubblefield, Stacy Boe Miller, and founding Editor of HDJ, Elizabeth Quinn.

Elizabeth Quinn is an artist and co-director of Fieldworks Consulting. Since April 2018, Fieldworks Consulting has helped launch residency programs around the country. Clients include: at Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, Virginia; Pine Meadow Ranch in Sisters, Oregon; NM Bodecker Foundation in Portland, Oregon; and The Volland Foundation in Volland, Kansas. Fieldworks Consulting has also worked with different organizations to help facilitate meetings, do organizational assessments and strategic planning including Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon; Creative Arts Industries Commission of Kansas; Chamber Music at the BARN in Maize, Kansas; Playa; and In A Landscape based in Portland, Oregon.

Before Fieldworks Consulting formed, Quinn was the Programs Director at Caldera in Oregon. As part of Caldera’s Leadership Team, Quinn helped provide strategic and creative direction for all of Caldera programs and initiatives. In 2015, Caldera received the National Arts and Humanities for Young People Award from the White House. In 2016, Quinn was selected for the National Guild for Community Arts Education’s Leadership Institute. Previous to her work at Caldera, Elizabeth was the Founding Editor of High Desert Journal and was the Executive Director of The Dalles Art Association.

Stacy Boe Miller grew up in a small town in Wyoming near the Black Hills. She currently lives in northern Idaho. Stacy is a poet and nonfiction writer, and received her MFA from the University of Idaho. Her work can be found in Northwest Review, River Teeth's Beautiful Things, Terrain.org, Copper Nickel, and other journals. She currently serves as the Poet Laureate of the city of Moscow. Find out more at stacyboemiller.com.