Rebecca Clarren, author of The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance, won the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction in 2025. Originally from Seattle, she moved to Portland in 2002 while reporting for High Country News. Clarren studied anthropology and studio art at Smith College before transitioning to journalism. Her novel, Kickdown, was published in 2018 and was praised by The Washington Post. She discovered her passion for journalism while working as a maid in Alaska, leading to a fulfilling career.
"I always thought I would be a fiction writer because I loved fiction so much, and I initially really didn't write much at all in terms of journalism."
"I moved to Portland in part because it was so much more affordable than Seattle, and it just seemed to me ... like a very interesting, vibrant place for a creative person to live."
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