About Nestucca Spit Press

Matt Love

How to Contact Matt at Nestucca Spit Press:
8575 SW Abalone St.
South Beach, Oregon 97366
503-812-1524 (cell)
Matt Love, Publisher
lovematt100@yahoo.com

Founded by Matt Love in 2003, Nestucca Spit Press is an independent press on the Oregon Coast that exclusively publishes books about Oregon and distributes them only through independent books stores, at events, and this web site. The Press is named after Nestucca Spit, a three-mile stretch of ocean beach in Bob Straub State Park that Straub saved from permanent desecration in 1967 when he defeated a plan to reroute Highway 101 down the spit.

Nestucca Spit Press publisher Matt Love grew up in Oregon City and now lives in South Beach on the Oregon Coast. From 1998-2008 he served as caretaker of the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge near Pacific City. He’s the author/editor of Let it Pour, The Beaver State Trilogy, Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology, Super Sunday in Newport: Notes From My First Year in Town, Gimme Refuge: Education of a Caretaker, Love & The Green Lady: Meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge, Oregon’s Crown Jewel of Socialism, and writes the “One Man’s Beach” column for Oregon Coast Today and the “On Oregon” blog at Powells.com.

In 2009, Oregon Literary Arts presented Love with the StewartH. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, “in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.”

Love teaches English and journalism at Newport High School. He is currently writing a book about the filming of Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion, which took place in Lincoln County in 1970.