Bija Gutoff

Bija Gutoff is a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon. She has worked as a freelancer for corporate, non-profit and small business clients, and as senior writer for an international non-government organization. Her recent work is focused on healing. She has published essays, poetry and other writing in Oregon Humanities, Rattle, VoiceCatcher, Snapdragon (essay selected for the journal’s first-ever anthology, “I Tried Not to Write“), and the anthology “We Become A New Story,” published by Oregon Health and Science University. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. You can find more of Bija’s writing and art at her website.

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