Bill Lascher is the author of Eve of a Hundred Midnights, a 2017 Oregon Book Awards finalist. His journalism appears in outlets like Atlas Obscura, Fortune, the Guardian, the Portland Monthly, and Boom: A Journal of California. A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Lascher has a history degree from Oberlin and a master's degree in specialized journalism from the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication.