About Matthew Dillon
December 14, 2007 by seedstory
Hi. I’m Matthew Dillon. I write stories and work with seed. But let me warn you that I have no formal training in seeds, stories, agriculture, literature, or in blogging, CSS or HTML or XCL or any other technological web site hocus pocus (thank goodness). So if formal is your thing, forgive my errors in all such things and please kindly suggest correction, addendum, or improvement.
I am the Director of Advocacy for Organic Seed Alliance (OSA). I founded OSA with my friend Dr. John Navazio (vegetable breeder and record collector extraorinaire), and I served as OSA’s executive director from 2003-2007. I also served as executive director for Abundant Life Seed Foundation, which was the nonprofit seed catalog-organism that generated OSA; generated out of a major fire that destroyed the seed collection and my life’s writing work. You’ll read more about all that as SeedStory progresses.
I also write - fiction, essays, bad country punk ballads, and such. In 2006 the folks at the Lannan Foundation awarded me a literary fellowship, which included a nice long writing sabbatical at their residency homes in Marfa, Texas.
What else? I was born in Wahoo, Nebraska and have a deep deep love for all things Nebraskan, but manage to forgive my lovely wife for her San Francisco heritage.
You can email me (not a hot link to avoid spam): Seedstory AT Gmail DOT com
Hi Matthew ! Very interesting beginning. I’ve never read a blog before so I’m intrigued to be doing so. I look forward to the story about the Abundant Life Seed Foundation.
Re the decision in Canada: can’t quite tell from your description but it sounds as if the Supreme Court found that the case was not ripe for its review. That doesn’t mean that it won’t address the issues later, if someone appeals again.
RMC