About Nestucca Spit Press

Founded by Matt Love in 2003, Nestucca Spit Press is an independent press on the Oregon Coast that exclusively publishes books about Oregon. 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 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 The Beaver State Trilogy, Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology, Super Sunday in Newport: Notes From My First Year in Town, a regular contributor to the Oregonian, Bear Deluxe and Oregon Coast Today magazines, and writes 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 and directs the Lincoln County School District’s Teaching American History Fellowship Program. 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.