This is the minimal web presence for Oregon- based writer Brett Campbell. I write frequently about music and other arts for the Wall Street Journal, The Oregonian, Oregon Quarterly, Willamette Week, San Francisco Classical Voice, and Eugene Weekly. 

My work has also appeared in dozens of other publications, including Portland Monthly, Andante, Salon, The Progressive, The Texas Observer, Utne Reader, and many more. You can see some of my recent clips by clicking on the links to the right, and true masochists can find many more at the websites of the publications listed above and others, or by request via the email address below.

I've taught magazine writing and editing at the University of Oregon School of Journalism & Communication and served as  faculty adviser to the award-winning student magazine, Flux.  I've been an editor of two fine magazines, Oregon Quarterly and The Texas Observer.  I also do freelance story editing, copy editing, and proofreading.

I've cut my freelance magazine writing back in recent years in order to concentrate on teaching, editing, and, most of all, research on a biography in progress that chronicles the life of the great American composer, Lou Harrison, which I'm writing with Bill Alves. We're hoping to complete the book in 200?.

 I'm lucky to be wedded to the artist and photographer CaroleZoom Patterson, who took the photo on this page. You can also find evidence of our nefarious felines at her site. And I play and sing in Venerable Showers of Beauty gamelan and Gamelan Sari Pandhawa.

I'm honored to have been chosen to participate in this year's USC Annenberg / Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship Program in Los Angeles, and also in the 2005 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera at Columbia University in New York City.

Email me at brettwriter at gmail dot com.