Hello & Welcome, ​I've spent 34 years as a surgical technologist, watching people at their most vulnerable. I write what I see, the tender, the absurd, the quietly devastating. I write poetry. I write children's books. I write about operating rooms and motherhood and the strange overlap between precision and chaos. ​ My work moves between grief and humor, medical observation and parental softness, because that's what it means to pay attention, and I do. ​ I live in Oregon and Utah with my family. I draw what I notice. I run when my body lets me. I use photography to capture moments in my life. ​ The rest is in my books. Oquirrh Keyes