Bob Welch is the author of more than two dozen books, including The Wizard of Foz, Track & Field Writers of America's 2019 Book of the Year, and American Nightingale, an Oregon Book Award finalist and featured on ABC's "Good Morning America." As a columnist for The Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon, Welch twice won the National Society of Newspaper Columnist's "Best Writing" award. He is a former adjunct professor at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication, and founder of the Beachside Writers Workshop in Yachats, Oregon.