STAFF
Rose Finn
editor
Rose Finn studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia, under the tutelage of established Canadian authors. She’s been writing since she was 8, and her first childhood story started out with the following lines: “Hi, my name is Amy. My parents died in a car crash. But I’m okay now, because it’s fall, and the leaves are crisp.”
When Rose isn’t writing, editing, or working, she’s playing music, or drinking a beer in the tub while listening to Joni Mitchell. She hopes you enjoy reading F Magazine as much as she has.
rose.finn@fthemagazine.com
Emily Hutto
managing editor/publisher
Emily Hutto is a Portland-dwelling freelance journalist/dog runner interested in all things potable- especially hop-heavy microbrews, Daiginjo saké and traditionally prepared kava. Since receiving her degree in journalism from the University of Oregon, she’s lived and breathed magazines. You can find her words in “Beer West,” “The Bear Deluxe,” “Travel Portland,” “1859,” and “Bitch.”
Emily’s Personal Blog
emily.hutto@fthemagazine.com
Lisa K. Anderson
associate editor
Lisa grew up around her hometown newspaper and began her career as a paper carrier. She has since been a high school newspaper editor in chief, college reporter and magazine editor. A graduate of the University of Oregon’s journalism school, Lisa studied Spanish in Central Mexico and interned for Mississippi’s only alternative weekly newspaper. She currently reports for the Sandy Post.
Lisa’s LinkedIn Profile
lisa.anderson@fthemagazine.com
Leslie Montgomery
art director
Designer by day and frolicker by night, Leslie finds her rhythm at 80s Night at the Crystal Ballroom and while under the gun banging out designs for F. After living in Portland for more than a year she’s come to appreciate the city’s large scale ebb and flow of energy, compared to the smaller town of Eugene, Ore. where she graduated from the University of Oregon’s Journalism School in Magazine. She secretly desires to be a stunt woman, and would love the ability to identify every ingredient in meals. Her morning wake-up song is “The Way You Make Me Feel” by the legendary Michael Jackson
leslie.montgomery@fthemagazine.com
Sho Ito
web designer
Originally from Sapporo, Japan, Sho wasn’t thinking straight when he decided to move to the United States in 2005. Feared by fellow international students, his loneliness led to what many loners do – design. Upon graduating from the University of Oregon with a BA in Advertising, he moved to Portland where he now works as an Interactive Designer at a small ad/interactive agency.
Sho’s Twitter
sho.ito@fthemagazine.com
Claire Fong
PR manager
Claire Fong is a Portland native who enjoys practicing the culinary arts, listening to jazz and going out to brunch. Her interests include interior design and decor, fashion, travel and event coordination. She is currently a front desk agent at Portland’s Hotel deLuxe and lives downtown with her husband, Nate, and cat, Miles.
claire.fong@fthemagazine.com
FREELANCERS
Eric Diep is a senior magazine journalism major from Salem, Ore. After deciding to switch from a Business Administration major, he is pursuing his new passion of writing and designing layouts for publications. Diep is currently a designer for Flux Magazine, music reviewer for From Downtown and a news reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He has also previously worked for Ethos Magazine.
Abigail is a recent graduate from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. She has written and edited for various publications including Ethos Magazine and Flux Magazine of the University of Oregon. She most enjoys writing about sub-cultures and oddities. In her free time, Abigail enjoys learning new hula hooping tricks, hiking outdoors, writing poetry and hosting potlucks.
Natalie Horner is a recent University of Oregon grad with a BA in Magazine Journalism. She’s a native Oregonian who loves music, airports and writing. In her wildest dreams, she hopes to someday be a traveling freelance music journalist. For now, she’s content working her day job and building her portfolio on the side.
Megan Gex
Megan Gex is one part ink, one part paper and three parts coffee. Like most, she is obsessed with finding fascinating ways to communicate by using both words and images to further storytelling. As a recent University of Oregon grad with a BA in both Magazine Journalism and Digital Arts, she has experience in the world of journalism and advertising as a writer, designer and illustrator. When she’s not writing copy at Opus Creative or freelance designing she enjoys archaic methods of printing, synthesizers and sampling whiskey.
Suji Paek
Suji Paek is a recovering perfectionist. Aside from freelance projects at fthemagazine, she is the social media director of Charting Nature, one of the nation’s largest online art prints dealers. Suji spends the majority of her free time napping with her dog and browsing the vast literary market in an effort to edify her cultural palate. Her current coffee table collection includes (but is not limited to): Vanity Fair, Vogue, National Geographic, Newsweek, The Economist, Mother Jones, Dog Fancy, and Playboy.
Kat Vetrano’s obsession with food started somewhere beneath the rolling hills of Northern California wine country where she grew up. In restaurants with her family, she slurped raw oysters and asked asked for the tentacles off plates of calamari. In her home kitchen, her father was simmering huge pots of Chicken Cacciatore that she also promptly inhaled. Meanwhile, she tended to her other obsession, writing. Kat has a MFA in Fiction from Portland State University, has reviewed food carts for the Willamette Week, was the food writer for the Vanguard, and studied recipe development under cookbook author Diane Morgan. If she has it her way, she’ll always be writing and eating as much as she can.
Jenna Westover hails from the city of Chicago, Illinois. She moved to Portland, Oregon three years ago with her wonderful family. She counts David Foster Wallace, Alan Ball, and Ira Glass among her personal heroes. Writing about herself in the third person makes her uncomfortable, but she’s eternally grateful for the opportunity to be a contributor of F Magazine.
