Win McCormack is an American

United States

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 publisher and editor from Oregon

Oregon

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He is editor-in-chief of Tin House

Tin House

Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The Tin House magazine was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically appealing and free of the stale substance...

magazine and Tin House Books, the former publisher of Oregon Magazine, and founder and treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc. He serves on the board of directors of the journal New Perspectives Quarterly. His political and social writings have appeared in Oregon Humanities, Tin House, The Nation

The Nation

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, The Oregonian

The Oregonian

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, and Oregon Magazine. McCormack's investigative coverage of the Rajneeshee movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the University of Kansas

University of Kansas

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 and the City and Regional Magazine Association. His latest book, You Don’t Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values, examines the sex scandals of Republican politicians who espouse "moral values."

As a political activist, McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart

Gary Hart

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's 1984 presidential campaign. He is chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon

Democratic Party of Oregon

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's President's Council and a member of the Obama

Barack Obama

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 for President Oregon Finance Committee. McCormack was also chosen as Alternate Delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention

2008 Democratic National Convention

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. He currently serves on the Oregon Council for the Humanities and the Oregon Tourism Commission

Oregon Tourism Commission

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. Additionally, McCormack sits on the Board of Overseers for Emerson College

Emerson College

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, and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles-based Liberty Hill Foundation

Liberty Hill Foundation

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External links

• Win McCormack's website
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/win-mccormack/introduction-to-emyou-don_b_117106.htmlIntroduction to You Don't Know Me at The Huffington Post
  The Huffington Post
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• Podcast of Interview with Win McCormack at Written Voices