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Children and Teens |
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Hobbs is the author of 16 novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. Seven of his novels, Bearstone, Downriver, The Big Wander, Beardance, Far North, The Maze, and Jason's Gold, were named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. ALA also named Far North and Downriver to their list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of the Twentieth Century. Ghost Canoe received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in l998 for Best Young Adult Mystery. In outdoor stories that appeal to both boys and girls, Hobbs has readers discovering wild places, sharing adventures with people from varied backgrounds, and exploring how to make important choices in their own lives. A graduate of Stanford University and former reading and language arts teacher, Will has been a full-time writer since l990. His books have won many other awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, the Western Writers of America Spur Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, Wyoming's Indian Paintbrush Book Award, and nominations to state award lists in over thirty states. |
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Known by many children as the teacher who dances on his desk, Gene Gagliano is a retired elementary teacher whose author presentations are entertaining, informative and inspirational. Gene was the recipient of the International Reading Association's 2004 Wyoming State Literacy Award and the 2001 Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Award. He is a member of the Wyoming Writers, Wyoming Poets, SCBWI, and local IRA. His published books include: C is for Cowboy: a Wyoming Alphabet, Four Wheels West: a Wyoming Number Book, Inside the Clown, Falling Stars and Secret of the Black Widow, a Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award nominee for 2005-2006. He is the author of a book of adult poetry about Wyoming, Prairie Parcels. His latest work is My Teacher Dances on the Desk, a collection of children's poems he wrote over 26 years teaching at Meadowlark School in Buffalo. |
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Author and photographer Cat Urbigkit has published four non-fiction children's picture books: Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs; A Young Shepherd; Puppies, Puppies Everywhere!; and Cattle Kids. A book for adults on wolves is expected out in 2007. She and her family are sheep and cattle producers in western Wyoming, where they also raise guardian dogs. She likes to spend her free time with nomadic sheepherders in western Wyoming, documenting their lives, and the lives of their sheep herds, through photography. As a newspaper reporter, and publisher, Cat Urbigkit has won numerous awards for her coverage of agricultural and environmental issues. She has made it her priority to write factual books for children that promote positive views of agriculture in the United States. |
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John R. Washakie, a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, is author of the children's stories Yuse, The Bully & the Bear and Yuse & the Spirit. John has also written several short stories and is currently working on his first novel. Before John started writing, he spent 18 years on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council. While on the Council, he made numerous presentations to House of Representatives members and the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. He was appointed by 3 different Department of Interior Secretaries to serve on several national committees to address issues from Reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to Energy policy. He is the great grandson of Chief Washakie. John earned a B.A. in History from the University of Wyoming. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War. He claims to be an average writer and just a good listener when his grandmother, uncles, or anyone else told stories. With the tradition of storytelling being almost gone, John decided he must use the new technologies of computers, printing and publishing to save these stories so that they would once again be passed on. John was born and raised in Fort Washakie, Wyoming where he currently lives with his wife, Bonnie. They have three children, Tonya, Joe and Candace. They also have fifteen grandchildren, Kyle, Kristen, Kayle, Chase, Cathy, Wekota, Hailey, Jackie, Yvonne, Mia, Kailyn, Kanani, Kenny, Keeley and Nokoke. |
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Poet and writer B.J. Buckley is a native Wyomingite now living and writing in Montana. She has worked in Arts in Schools Programs throughout the Rocky Mountain West for over 30 years. Her awards include a Wyoming Literature Fellowship; the NY based Poets & Writers Exchange Award in Poetry; the Joy Harjo Prize from CutThroat: A Magazine of Literature and the Arts; the Rita Dove Poetry Award from the Center for Women Writers at Salem College, Winston-Salem, SC; and the Robert Penn Warren Narrative Poetry Prize from The Cumberland Poetry Review. Her work has appeared widely in little magazines such as Green Mountains Review, Comstock Review, and Big Sky Journal, as well as in the anthologies Leaning Into The Wind, Woven On The Wind, and Crazy Woman Creek, edited by Nancy Curtis, Gaydell Collier, and Linda Hasselstrom; and A Bird In The Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds, edited by Kent Nelson. Her first book of poems, Artifacts, was published by Willow Bee, Saratoga, Wyoming. Her most recent book, with fellow Wyoming poet Dawn Senior-Trask, is Moonhorses And The Red Bull, from Pronghorn Press in Greybull Wyoming. |
Poetry |
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Craig Arnold teaches and directs the Visiting Writers Series at the University of Wyoming MFA Program. His first book Shells won the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets award. He has appeared in three volumes of Best American Poetry and widely elsewhere. Among his honors are the Rome Prize, an NEA fellowship, the Hodder Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He is currently working on a book about volcanoes and the end of the world as we know it. |
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H.L. Hix is a professor and the director of the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wyoming. Hix was one of five finalists in 2006 for the National Book Award in poetry. He was nominated for Chromatic, three sequences of poems that explore the full range of effects caused by human desire, from ecstasy to suffering. He has authored five books of poetry and five volumes of prose, and edited three books. His poetry has been recognized with the Grolier Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Peregrine Smith Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon 2000 and Vintage 2002), and three books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press 2000), Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press 2002), and The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (University of Pittsburgh Press 2007). Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, the University of Georgia Press' Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, Nerve, Ploughshares, Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, Quarterly West, and on National Public Radio among others. |
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Romtvedt's books of poetry include Certainty, How Many Horses, and A Flower Whose Name I do Not Know which won the National Poetry Series award. His work has been selected for the Pushcart Prize and for two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, one in poetry and the other an international fellowship in poetry and music. He is a recipient of a Wyoming Arts Council literature fellowship and the Wyoming Governor's Arts Award. Romtvedt serves as faculty member in the MFA program for writers at University of Wyoming. He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, with his wife, the potter Margo Brown. He is a founder and current board member of Worlds of Music, a foundation devoted to giving people the opportunity to participate in the making of music that come from cultures around the world. |
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Wyoming's poet laureate from 1995 to 2002, Robert Roripaugh was introduced to poetry by his mother, who also wrote in the genre. She bought her son chapbooks and read volumes of poetry to him. His own daughter, Lee Ann, followed in their footsteps. The Roripaugh family came by their heritage naturally. titlehough Robert was born in California during the Great Depression, his family moved first to Texas and later to Lander, Wyoming, during World War II, where they became ranchers. Robert studied journalism and geology at the University of Texas, transferring to the University of Wyoming where he completed his B.A. in geology and M.A. in English. He later taught English at UW following a teaching assistantship in English in New Mexico. While there he wrote short stories and began work on a novel about the occupation of Japan, where he met his wife. His second novel, Honor Thy Father, is an historic look at cattle ranching in Wyoming's Sweetwater River area, which received the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1963. In addition to his chapbooks, Learn to Love the Haze and The Ranch, Roripaugh's short stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Atlantic Monthly, Sage, South Dakota Review, Quarterly West, and Writers Forum. The Ranch placed first in the Wyoming State Historical Society for Fine Arts of 2003. Source: Wyoming's Poets and Their Poetry by Jean Henry-Mead. |
Cowboy Poetry |
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Henderson's cowboy poetry is a diary of her ranch experiences. She has made her living handling livestock and doing ranch work since the day she graduated from high school. Ranch work put her through college (as well as scholarships). She has been a rural wildland firefighter for over twenty years. Her free lance writing has been published in several weekly and daily papers around Wyoming. In addition, she writes a weekly column for the local paper, The Douglas Budget. Besides being included in several cowboy poetry anthologies and Leaning Into The Wind (Houghton-Mifflin, ranch essay), She has three chapbooks and a CD. |
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Echo Roy Klaproth is a fourth generation Wyoming rancher who teaches and farms with her husband, Rick, near Shoshoni, Wyoming. She writes to pay tribute to the unique heritage her family has enjoyed - raising cattle and sheep on ground homesteaded by their great-grandparents in the late 1800s. Her most recent accomplishments include editing an anthology of "fine lines" from contemporary cowboy poems and songs titled Scattered, Lasting Remnants and producing A Nameless Grace, a CD devoted to ranch women, past and present. Her next project is Echoes of a 4th Generation, a book of prose and poetry that chronicles modern ranching and farming in Wyoming and the West. |
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Dick Morton is a Colorado native whose grandparents settled in Colorado in 1870. After serving in the 8th Cavalry , WWII, with the occupation forces in Japan and college he married a rancher's daughter. His "ranch education" came on her dad's 14,000 acre cow/calf operation. A review of his CD, Cowboy Classics, is on www.cowboypoetry.com. Selected poems from the CD have been heard over radio such as Marvin O'Dell's - Around the Campfire and KPOV Calling All Cowboys. He has performed throughout the west. His recitation of the poems on Cowboy Classics was reviewed in the Western Horseman magazine, April 2007. |
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Jane Morton's stories and poems are connected to her family and the ranch they've owned near Fort Morgan, Colorado since 1915. Her book, Cowboy Poetry Turning To Face The Wind, published in 2004, won four national awards, The Will Rogers Medallion Award from the AWA, the GLYPH award from Arizona Booksellers, The Fred Olds Poetry Award from Westerners International and a WILLA finalist award from Women Writing The West. She has performed at cowboy poetry gatherings across the West. The Academy of Western Artists recently selected her Cowgirl Poet of the Year. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and western magazines such as, The Fence Post, Wyoming Companion, Colorado Country Life, American Cowboy, and Cowboy Magazine. |
Mystery & Thriller |
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C. J. Box is the author of the eight novels including the award-winning Joe Pickett series. He's the winner of the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, and was a finalist for the Edgar Award and L.A. Times Book Prize. His novels have been cited by the New York Times (2001 Notable Book), Booksense 76, People Magazine, Booklist, and many other publications. His short stories have been featured in America's Best Mystery Stories 2006 and limited-edition printings. The novels have been national bestsellers and have been translated into 12 languages. |
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Margaret Coel is the award-winning author of the Wind River series of mystery novels set among the Arapahos on the Wind River Reservation. The Girl With Braided Hair, 13th in the series, will be published in September 2007. Margaret is a four-time winner of the Colorado Book Award for the novels Eye of the Wolf, The Spirit Woman, The Shadow Dancer, and Wife of Moon. The Spirit Woman also received the Willa (Cather) Award for best novel of the West. The novels have appeared on numerous bestseller lists, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Denver Post. Margaret is the author of more than a dozen short stories published in anthologies. Her articles have been published in numerous publications, including the New York Times and American Heritage. She is also the author of five non-fiction books, including the award-winning biography of an Arapaho chief, Chief Left Hand, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. |
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Craig Johnson has received high praise for his Walt Longmire novels The Cold Dish (Viking/Penguin), Death Without Company (Viking/Penguin), and Kindness Goes Unpunished (Viking), with starred reviews in Kirkus and Booklist and with Booksense and Killer picks. The Cold Dish was a DILYS award finalist and Death Without Company won the 2006 Wyoming Historical Society's Best Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Mountain & Plains Book of the Year. The short story, Old Indian Trick, won the Hillerman Award, and the fourth in the Walt Longmire series, Another Man's Moccasins will be published by Viking in March of 2008. An ex-police officer, Craig lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25. |
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Kyle Mills is the New York Times bestselling author of eight political and social crime thrillers. He initially found inspiration from his father, a former FBI agent and director of Interpol, who is still able to put Kyle in touch with the people that give his books their sense of realism. His latest novel, The Second Horseman, was recently released in paperback. Darkness Falls, a novel about a biological attack on America's oil supply, will be on the shelves in October 2007. |
True Crime |
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From The Hog Ranches of Wyoming to his most recent Bad in the Good Old Days, Brown writes with a sense of humor about the West's less-savory characters. His writing credits include seven books and articles in such non-fiction publications as the National Cowboy Hall of Fame's Persimmon Hill, Wild West, True West, Old West, American Cowboy, The Roundup of Western Writers of America, Wyoming Magazine, Annals of Wyoming History Journal, plus the journals of the National and Western Outlaw and Lawman associations. His fictional short stories also have been published in the award-winning High Plains literary magazine. He is a former Western Writers of America Membership Chairman (1999-2005) and Board Member (2004-2006). |
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Chip Carlson, a 30-year resident of Cheyenne, is an acknowledged authority on Tom Horn, Wyoming's infamous cattle detective. Twenty years of Carlson's research has resulted in three books, the most recent of which won the prestigious Annual Award for history/biography from the Wyoming State Historical Society. He is the author of dozens of articles on early Western events that have appeared in such national publications as Wild West, True West and American Cowboy. |
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Ron Franscell grew up in Wyoming. A lifelong journalist, he worked for newspapers in Wyoming, New Mexico and California's Bay Area before hitting the road in one of American journalism's best beats, covering the evolution of the American West for the Denver Post. He is now a managing editor for the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise. His debut novel, Angel Fire, was published by Laughing Owl in 1998, and reprinted by Berkley (Penguin/Putnam) in 2000. His popular mystery, The Deadline, was published in 1999. He recently finished two books. The Obituary is a sequel to his debut mystery The Deadline. And Fall is an intensely personal nonfiction about a monstrous crime that touched his life as a child. |
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Award-winning author, Marion Mcmillan Huseas, former curator at the Wyoming State Museum, has written four books. Her first, Sweetwater Gold, and two anthologies compiled from her monthly column, "The Old West," which ran for 3 years in the Cheyenne Sunday Tribune-Eagle, won national awards. Her latest book, Legacy of Fear has been highly praised by readers nationwide. Huseas has had articles published in national historical journals, magazines and newspapers. She also writes humor and interviews celebrities. Huseas, a graduate of Casper College and the University of Wyoming, holds a Masters Degree from the University of Arizona. |
History |
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Paul Jensen lives in ranch country near Daniel, Wyoming, where he moved four years ago from Washington, D.C. He traded in a thirty year career in the upper levels of national politics and business for a life-long dream of living and working as a cowboy in the West. His book, Hard and Noble Lives: A Living Tradition of Cowboys and Ranchers in Wyoming's Hoback Basin, is a story of the settlement in that part of northwestern Wyoming, told through fascinating tales and unusual characters. It is a story of ordinary people who did extraordinary things, and who with courage and determination showed how the West was really won. |
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Historian-photographer Mark Junge has called Wyoming home since 1967 when historian T.A. Larson asked Mark to accept an assistantship at the University of Wyoming. Junge's career as an historian began in 1971 at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office in Cheyenne where he eventually became Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. He was named as Wyoming State Historian and served three years as editor of the state's quarterly history magazine, Wyoming Annals, before retiring from state government in 1995. His books include A View from Center Street, The Wind is My Witness, Wyoming, a Pictorial History and J.E. Stimson, Photographer of the West. |
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Candy Moulton has written or co-written eleven Western history books including Chief Joseph: Guardian of the People, which won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America in 2006; Steamboat: Legendary Bucking Horse; Legacy of the Tetons: Homesteading in Jackson Hole; The Grand Encampment: Settling the High Country; Wagon Wheels: A Contemporary Journey on the Oregon Trail; and Roadside History of Wyoming. She makes her home near Encampment, Wyoming, where she edits the Western Writers of America Roundup Magazine. |
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W. Dale Nelson spent 40 years as a reporter for the Associated Press, first in western bureaus and then for 20 years in Washington D.C. During most of that time, his poetry has been published widely in magazines in the United States and Canada, and on occasion in England and Australia. Nelson is the author of four books, most recently: Gin Before Breakfast: The Dilemma of the Poet in the Newsroom, and is at work on a biography of the Denver publisher and poet Alan Swallow, who was born and raised in Powell and graduated from the University of Wyoming. In recent years, Nelson served as correspondent in Laramie, where he now lives, for the Casper Star-Tribune. |
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Tom Rea is a freelance writer and editor living in Casper. He received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana and has served as Writer-in-Residence for the Wyoming Arts Council, before working for many years as a reporter and editor on the Casper Star-Tribune. He is the author of several books about Wyoming, including Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur, and Devil's Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story, a history of Independence Rock, Devil's Gate and Martin's Cove, published last year by the University of Oklahoma Press. Currently he's writing up a series of 28 episodes in Wyoming history for the American History Cowboy Coalition, a federally funded Teaching American History grant program at the Natrona County School District. |
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Jeanne Rogers has worked at various jobs over the years-waitress, gas station attendant, flag-girl, floral designer, bookkeeper, cashier, volleyball official, bus driver, construction laborer, weed sprayer, haying operator, draftsman-but likes writing best. Her first book is out this year on the history of Devils Tower National Monument. Poetry publication credits include the Houghton Mifflin collections Leaning Into the Wind, Woven on the Wind, and Crazy Woman Creek, and several juried literary chapbooks She has had essays and articles in regional publications and "was honored" to read on the main stage at the 1998 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, and to be on the "Women Writing the West" panel at the 2002 Rocky Mountain Book Festival in Denver, Colorado. |
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Ross is the grandson of Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, who in 1924 became the first woman in the U.S. elected as a state governor. Mr. Ross and his wife, Robinette Davis Ross, have developed a website at www.nellietayloeross.com and have worked with Wyoming Public Television to bring the story of his grandmother's life, times and legacy to a wider audience. Mr. Ross has been engaged in the real estate and mortgage business for the past 25 years. In 1998, he retired and began a new endeavor managing Maiden Point Farm where he raises purebred Angus cattle and breeds horses. |
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Scheer is a former government manager and a former Adjunct Faculty member at the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver. Dr. Scheer and her husband live in Sidney, British Columbia, where she is at work on her second book. Her first book, published in December 2005, was Governor Lady, the biography of Wyoming's first female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross. |
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Nan Weber received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1976 and holds a 1997 degree in Interpreting for the Deaf. Her interest and writing about historical subjects began while working with a regional theatre in Minnesota. Her book, ''Mattie: A Woman's Journey West'', offers a taste of a young woman's life from the story of her childhood and work in the New York textile industry to her role as the wife of a winter caretaker in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming where she died in 1889. Nan brings Mattie's story to life in a living history presentation for all ages. Ms. Weber's current work is a biography about Yellowstone Chip, a former stage driver in Yellowstone National Park. She resides in Utah. |
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Whittlesey’s studies in the history of the Yellowstone region have made him an expert on Yellowstone’s vast literature. He is the author, co-author, or editor of eight books. His most recent is Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides, available now from University of New Mexico Press. Whittlesey also published an updated and revised edition of his Yellowstone Place Names in 2006, as well as The Guide to Yellowstone Waterfalls and Their Discovery (2000) in which he and two co-authors revealed to the world for the first time the existence of more than 225 previously unknown waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park. For this accomplishment, he was featured on ABC News, NBC News, the Discovery Channel, the Travel Channel, and People magazine, and he is often seen on regional and local television talking about Yellowstone’s history. |
Wyoming and The West |
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Gaydell Collier grew up on Long Island surrounded by books and fascinated by stories - especially of horses and dogs - and dreaming of Wyoming. She moved West to attend the University of Wyoming and stayed to ranch and write for more than 50 years near Laramie and in the Black Hills near Sundance. In addition to her own widely published work, she is one of the three co-editors of the Wind series of books: Leaning into the Wind, Woven on the Wind and Crazy Woman Creek. A recipient of the Governor's Arts Award, Collier is a retired county library director and a long-time member of Bearlodge Writers and Wyoming Writers. She lives near Sundance, Wyoming. |
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Curtis is the primary editor and publisher of High Plains Press which has published over 55 books on Wyoming and the West. High Plains Press books have won four Wranglers, two Willas, and many other awards. She has served as chairman for the Wyoming Council on the Arts board. She is also one of three editors, along with Linda Hasselstrom and Gaydell Collier, of a series of anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin: Leaning into Wind, Woven on the Wind, and Crazy Woman Creek contain essays and poetry by western women. |
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Linda M. Hasselstrom writes, ranches, conducts writing retreats, and hosts a botanic garden on the South Dakota ranch homesteaded by her grandfather in 1899. She writes, "I am a perpetual student of American Western history, culture and ecology. I write to learn. My primary job is writing about the territory I love, including not only the land but its inhabitants, human and otherwise, and their stories." |
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In Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming (U. P. Colorado, 2006) Kevin Holdsworth writes of passing through wide-open Rock Springs in the early 1980s, during the last energy boom, and swearing he would never live in such a god-forsaken place. Nearly twenty years later, he finds himself living in nearby Green River and making his own roots in Wyoming. Holdsworth's route to a home in Wyoming was circuitous and included a way station in New York City where he found himself writing genre westerns and dreaming of the mountains he'd skied and climbed in his youth. Holdsworth's position as an insider/outsider informs much of Big Wonderful. He describes the ill-fated 1856 handcart trek of his great-great grandmother, Emma Girdlestone, and illuminates the recent controversy at Martin's Cove. He also takes a hard look the current drill-o-rama on BLM land in Wyoming, its social costs, and the environmental threats to his beloved Wind River Mountains. Kevin Holdsworth's work has appeared in numerous journals, including Creative Nonfiction, South Dakota Review and Denver University Law Review. He is currently at work on a book about his twenty years of part-time residence in Torrey, Utah. |
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Page Lambert's most recent work appears in the anthologies Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West and Home Land: Ranching and a West that Works. Described in Inside/Outside Southwest Magazine as one of the most notable women writers of the contemporary West, Lambert's books include the acclaimed memoir, In Search of Kinship, and the novel, Shifting Stars, a finalist for the Mountains and Plains Book Award. A recipient of two Wyoming Arts Council Literary fellowships, her River Writing Journeys for Women were hailed by Oprah's O Magazine as "one of the year's six great all-girl getaways." |
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Martin Murie grew up in Jackson Hole. He served in the U.S. Army Tenth Mountain Infantry during World War II. He studied philosophy and literature at Reed College, and earned a doctorate in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught life sciences at Antioch University in Ohio and North Country Community College, and is a winner of Fiddlehead's Writing Wilderness Contest. His first two contemporary westerns, Losing Solitude and Windswept, were published by Homestead Publishing in Moose, Wyoming. Other novels, published by Packrat Books, include Burt's Way, Breakout, Desert Rats, and Lester and Me. Murie is a contributor to Canyon Country Zephyr and Swans Commentary. He is the son of Olaus and Mardy Murie. |
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Nesbitt teaches English and Spanish at Eastern Wyoming College. His literary articles, book reviews, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He has written six short story collections, two contemporary western novels, and more than a dozen traditional western novels. Nesbitt has won many prizes and awards for his work, including a Wyoming Arts Council literary fellowship for his fiction writing, two awards from the Wyoming State Historical Society (also for fiction), and two awards from Wyoming Writers for encouragement of other writers and service to the organization. His most recent publications are Raven Springs, a western novel, and "Blue Horse Mesa," a short story included in the anthology entitled Lost Trails. |
Road Trips |
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Julianne Couch is the author of Jukeboxes & Jackalopes: A Wyoming Bar Journey. Her essays have appeared publications including High Country News; Owen Wister Review; Heritage of the Great Plains; The Gleaners: Eco-Essays on Re-cyling, Re-Use, and Living Lightly on the Land; Hard Ground: Writing the Rockies; and Ahead of Their Time: Wyoming Voices for the Wilderness. She lives in Laramie and teaches in the English department at UW. She co-hosts the literary radio program "Speaking of Writing," which airs on Laramie's community radio station. |
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Jeffe Kennedy took the crooked road to writing, stopping off at neurobiology, religious studies and environmental consulting before her creative writing began appearing in places like Redbook, Mountain Living, Wyoming Wildlife and Under the Sun. She has been a Ucross Foundation Fellow (2001) and received first place from Pronghorn Press for their Dry Ground (2002) collection. She is also a Wyoming Arts Council roster artist and recipient of the 2005 Doubleday Award and 2007 Fellowship for Poetry. Jeffe has contributed to several anthologies, Drive: Women's True Stories of the Open Road (2002), Hard Ground (2003) and Bombshells (2007). Her first collection, Wyoming Trucks, True Love and the Weather Channel was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2004. Jeffe lives in Laramie, Wyoming, with two Maine coon cats, a border collie, and a fish pathologist. |
Non-Fiction |
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1st Lt. Lee Alley is a decorated Vietnam War hero from Wheatland, Wyoming who now helps veterans of all wars, including those returning from combat in the Gulf, to adjust to civilian life and come to terms with their experiences. For more than three decades Lee endured an emotionally draining silence over his fighting days in Vietnam, but he now speaks proudly, openly and emotionally of his service and helps other soldiers address and share their deeply personal experiences. Lee is the author of Back from War: Finding Hope and Understanding in Life after Combat, an emotional first-hand account of a war hero's difficulty to adjust to civilian life and how, after decades, he overcame his silent suffering to become a major advocate for veterans of all wars. |
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Bess Arnold is a Cheyenne freelance writer. She received her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Wyoming as a non-traditional student following a 20-year career with the Wyoming Education Association. Bess has authored Wyoming - Along the Union Pacific Corridor; Union Pacific: Crossing Sherman Hill, a narrative of railroad employees in their own words; Union Pacific: Saving a Big Boy and Other Railroad Stories, a collection of more stories from railroad employees, including women who worked during World War II, and Union Pacific Depot - An Elegant Legacy to Cheyenne, a history of the UP depot, which she co-authored with railroad historian Jim Ehernberger. |
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William T. Close, M.D., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, is also the recipient of an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the University of Utah. During the Ebola outbreak of 1976 in the Congo, he supervised logistics for the international medical team. During the 1995 outbreak he was a liaison between the Centers for Disease Control, the Zairian government. Dr. Close, now in his fifty-sixth year of medical practice, continues to see patients in "a gentle, limited practice." He and his wife, Bettine, live in Big Piney, Wyoming. Among the books he has authored are Ebola and Beyond the Storm. |
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Richard J. Maturi wrote 1,300 articles for such publications as American History Illustrated, Barron's, Casper Star Tribune, Denver Post, Equine Images, Horse World, Industry Week, Investor's Business Daily, The New York Times and Southwest Art. His 21 books cover a broad range of topics from investing to sports and cinema history. Fortune/Money Book Club featured a number of his books. He appeared on numerous radio and television shows across the country, including CNBC. He achieved finalist status in the International Imitation Hemingway Contest. Richard currently works on a screenplay based on his latest book, the sports biography, Triple Crown Winner: The Earl Sande Saga. Mary Buckingham Maturi and her husband, Richard, co-authored the following books: Beverly Bayne: Queen of the Movies, Cultural Gems: An Eclectic Look At Unique United States Libraries, Francis X. Bushman: King of the Movies, Nevada: Off the Beaten Path, Will Rogers, Performer and Wyoming: Off the Beaten Path. Mary's present project involves a book based on her childhood memories growing up in a parsonage. She plans to illustrate it with vintage photos and original art. Mary and Richard live in the Laramie Range of the Wyoming Rockies. |
Fiction |
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Forkner graduated with honors from Sacramento State University in 1998 before settling in Wyoming where she now works as a freelance writer and serves on her county's Library Foundation Board of Directors. Her debut novel, Ruby Among Us, will release in 2008 from Waterbrook Press/Random House and her second novel, tentatively titled Rose House, will release shortly after. |
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W. Michael Gear, who holds a master's degree in archaeology with a specititley in physical anthropology, has worked as a professional archaeologist/anthropologist since 1978. He is currently principal investigator for Wind River Archaeological Consultants. With his wife, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, he has written the international and USA Today bestselling North America's Forgotten Past Series and Anasazi Mystery Series. |
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear is a former state historian and archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska for the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has twice received the federal government's Special Achievement Award for "outstanding management" of our nation's cultural heritage. With her husband, W. Michael Gear, she has written the international and USA Today bestselling North America's Forgotten Past Series and Anasazi Mystery Series. |
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Alyson Hagy was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. A graduate of Williams College and the MFA Program at the University of Michigan, she is the author of three collections of short fiction, Madonna On Her Back (Stuart Wright, 1986), Hardware River (Poseidon Press, 1991), Graveyard of the Atlantic (Graywolf Press, 2000) and two novels, Keeneland (Simon & Schuster, 2000) and Snow, Ashes (Graywolf Press, 2007). Her stories have most recently appeared in Shenandoah, Five Points, and the Virginia Quarterly Review and on National Public Radio, and they have been awarded a Nelson Algren Prize, a Syndicated Fiction Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her story "Search Bay" was also included in Best American Short Stories 1997. Hagy lives in Laramie, Wyoming and teaches at the University of Wyoming. |
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Masha Hamilton has written three novels: Staircase of a Thousand Steps, a Booksense pick and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, The Distance Between Us, which Library Journal named one of the best books of 2004, and The Camel Bookmobile, also a Booksense pick. She reported from the Middle East for five years for The Associated Press, then spent five years in Moscow, where she was a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a newspaper column, and reported for NBC/Mutual Radio. She reported from Afghanistan in 2004. In 2006, she traveled in Kenya to research her novel and interview street kids and famine victims. |
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Henderson is the author of three novels set primarily in Wyoming: Native, The Rest of the Earth, and the recently released Augusta Locke, a finalist for both the Mountains & Plains award and the Spur award. He holds a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA in creative writing from Brown University, and he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University. Currently, he lives in Denver and teaches creative writing at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the University of Denver. |
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Tim Sandlin is a novelist and screenwriter. His novels include Sex and Sunsets, Western Swing, Honey Don't, the GroVont Trilogy, Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty and the forthcoming Rowdy in Paris. His movie credits include the Showtime original "Floating Away," based on Sorrow Floats, and "Skipped Parts," a TriMark film. He is also a contributor to the New York Times Book Review and has judged several writing competitions, including the Western States Book Awards. He is director of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference. |
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Michael Shay's fiction and essays have been published in Northern Lights, High Plains Literary Review, Colorado Review, Owen Wister Review, Visions, High Plains Register, and In Short, a Norton anthology of brief creative nonfiction. His book of short fiction, The Weight of a Body, was published by Ghost Road Press in April 2006. He is a past board member of the Wyoming Center for the Book, and was co-editor of the Center's 2003 anthology, Deep West: A Literary Tour of Wyoming. He works for the Wyoming Arts Council as the Arts Specialist for Literature, Visual Arts and Performing Arts. |
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Brad Watson is originally from Mississippi and now teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at The University of Wyoming. He is the author of two books of fiction, Last Days of the Dog-Men and The Heaven of Mercury, both published by W.W. Norton & Co. He has previously taught at The University of Alabama, Harvard University, The University of California-Irvine, and The University of Mississippi, and has held fellowships through the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. Last Days of the Dog-Men received awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Great Lakes Colleges Association. The Heaven of Mercury received awards from The Southern Book Critics Circle, The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award in Fiction. |
Romance |
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Romance novelist Amanda Harte knew she wanted to be a writer by the age of seven and set herself a goal of being published before she was 30. Luck was with her, and she sold her first novel to Dell one week before she turned 30. Now retired from an information technology career to write full-time, she lives in Cheyenne. She has sold 26 novels, two novellas, two non-fiction books and what she describes as "enough technical articles to cure insomnia in a medium-sized city." Two novels have been released in 2007: Dream Weaver and The Brass Ring, with Stargazer and The Golden Thread slated for 2008 release. |
Nature and Outdoors |
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Formerly an interpretive naturalist for the U.S. Forest Service, Gary is the author of 16 books on nature, science and history. His recent work, Hawks Rest (National Geographic), became the first book in history to win nonfiction book of the year from both the Pacific Northwest and Mountains and Plains booksellers associations. He was the 2002 Seigel Scholar at the School of Political Science at Washington University, St. Louis; in January 2007 he began a five-month tenure as Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana. Gary's nature and science-based essays can be heard on National Public Radio affiliates throughout the country. |
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Mark Harvey is a native of Colorado and spent much of his youth hiking, climbing, and rafting in the Rocky Mountains. He taught for the National Outdoor Leadership school for several years, leading trips in Wyoming, Mexico, and Chile. Harvey has worked as a writer, photographer, and filmmaker. His book, The National Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Guide, won the National Outdoor Book Award in 2000. Harvey produced and directed the award winning film "A Land out of Time," which exposes the massive development of natural gas throughout the Rocky Mountains. He has served on various boards, including High Country News, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, and Ecoflight. He currently resides in Bastitle, Colorado. |
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Jay Lawson, Wyoming's Chief Game Warden, has written a collection of short biographies titled Men To Match Our Mountains that details the life history of many colorful outdoor men and women of early 20th century Wyoming. Included are cowboys, trappers, artists, forest rangers and early game wardens. Growing up in Wyoming during the 1950s and 60s, Jay became enthralled at an early age with the old-timers who were born in the horseback era and lived in a time when the central Rocky Mountains were largely unoccupied and undeveloped. They had great stories to tell if someone would just listen. Becoming a Wyoming game warden realized all of Jay's career ambitions, but it also gave him access to many of the colorful characters featured in the book. Many of them he met in the hills while working as a game warden, the others he knew by reputation and sought them out, often being introduced by fellow game wardens. Jay also collects and preserves old photographs, and he used more than 140 images to portray the fascinating lives of the characters in Men To Match Our Mountains. titlehough wildlife management has been his lifelong career, Jay's strong avocation is researching the history of the American West. He is currently working on several articles that will chronicle the earliest conservation efforts in Wyoming. All proceeds from his new book will be donated to the Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Wyoming to further the conservation of Wyoming's wildlife. |
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Jeff Lockwood earned a B.S. in biology from New Mexico Tech and a Ph.D. in entomology from Louisiana State University. Originally hired as an Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of Wyoming, he metamorphosed into a Professor of Natural Sciences & Humanities and transferred to the department of philosophy and in the MFA program in creative writing. He teaches nature and spiritual/religious writing, environmental ethics, and philosophy of ecology. His writings have been honored with a Pushcart Prize and a John Burroughs Award. His current book project is: Six-Legged Soldiers: The use of insects as weapons of war and terror (Oxford University Press). |
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Abe Morris, author of My Cowboy Hat Still Fits, grew up in Woodstown, New Jersey and got his start at Cowtown Rodeo riding junior bulls. After graduation from high school he ventured West and attended the University of Wyoming on academic and rodeo scholarships. He was a member of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association and competed on the UW rodeo team for four years. While at the University of Wyoming he became a member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. He competed in the bull riding event at various rodeos throughout the United States. Soon after graduating from college Abe obtained his PRCA announcer's card and is the only African-American to have earned this distinction. Abe was a broadcast commentator for the telecasts of the world famous Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo (the Daddy of 'em All) for nine years with Prime Sports and Fox Sports Networks. He has been featured in several newspaper articles and television news stories as a result of his professional bull riding career. |
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Ted Kerasote's writing has spanned the globe and appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, including Audubon, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Salon, and The New York Times. He is the author and editor of six books, one of which, Bloodties, is often cited as one of the most definitive works on the ethics of hunting. Another of his books, Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age, won the National Outdoor Book Award. His latest book, Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog, is the story of a remarkable dog and how the dog-human partnership can become far more than we have imagined. Kerasote has lived in Grand Teton National Park for nearly a quarter of a century and has often addressed Wyoming's wildlife and conservation issues. |
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C. L. Rawlins was born in Laramie and lives a windblown life in Wyoming. Schooled at Utah State and Stanford, he worked with the Forest Service from 1977-92 as a firefighter, range rider, and field hydrologist. In 1989, he won the USFS National Primitive Skills Award. Since leaving the Forest Service, Rawlins has been an advocate for wilderness and wildlife, serving with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and from 1997-99 as president of the Wyoming Outdoor Council. From 1982-1997 he was poetry editor for High Country News, and in 1999, visiting writer at the University of Wyoming. Rawlins' poetry appears in Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales, Chicago Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Quarterly West, and many other journals. His first book, A Ceremony on Bare Ground (1985) was followed by a Stegner Fellowship to Stanford University. His second book of poems, In Gravity National Park (University of Nevada, 1998) won the 1999 poetry prize from the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association. He's written two nonfiction books, Sky's Witness: A Year in the Wind River Range (Henry Holt, 1993) and Broken Country: Mountains & Memory (Henry Holt, 1996), and co-authored The Complete Walker IV with Colin Fletcher (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002). |
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A life-long Westerner, Tom Reed is the author of two books. In 2003, he wrote Great Wyoming Bear Stories, a work compiled through dozens of personal interviews with people whose lives had been changed-positively and negatively-by Wyoming bruins. Most recently, he wrote Give Me Mountains For My Horses, a collection of essays about horses that Reed has owned in his lifetime. The personal essays follow Reed's evolution as a horseman, with a particular emphasis on wild Wyoming country and good equine companionship. Both books were published by Riverbend Publishing, Helena, Montana. His fiction and nonfiction work has also appeared in several anthologies. Reed at one time was the managing editor for the Lander Journal, and served as Senior Editor for Wyoming Wildlife magazine. In addition, he was the Publications Manager for NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) for nearly ten years. He is a regular columnist of Wyoming Wildlife News and has won multiple awards from the Wyoming Wildlife Federation, the Association for Conservation Information, the Colorado Press Association and the Wyoming Press Association. He attended the prestigious Bread Loaf Writer's Conference at Middlebury College in 2001. He currently splits his time between Montana and Wyoming. |
Home and Garden |
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Beverly Cox comes from an old Wyoming ranching family. She is the Food Editor of Native Peoples Magazine, and the author of thirteen cookbooks, including Spirit of the Harvest, North American Indian Cooking, winner of the James Beard and IACP cookbook awards in 1992, and Spirit of the West, Cooking from Ranch House and Range, winner of a Julia Child award in 1997, and Spirit of the Earth, Native Cooking from Latin America, an IACP cookbook award finalist in 2002, all co-authored with food photographer Martin Jacobs. The latest book from Cox and Jacobs, Eating Cuban, 120 Authentic Recipes from the Street of Havana to American Shores was published in October, 2006. |
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Master Gardener Cheryl Anderson Wright focuses her considerable knowledge on the problems of growing plants in areas with short growing seasons and unpredictable weather in her three books, High Country Herbs, High Country Tomato Handbook and High Country Veggies. Her practical advice and down to earth recommendations guides the reader from seed to table. She has also published many poems and shorts stories in the Hard Ground anthologies, Woven on the Wind and Crazy Woman Creek. She is currently working on her next book, gardening hints and how-tos. Wright works for the Park County Library System. |
Book Arts & Lore |
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Nancy Pearl speaks about the pleasures of reading to library and community groups throughout the world and recommends books regularly on NPR's Morning Edition. She's the author of Book Crush: For Kids and Teens: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest; Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason; and More Book Lust: 1,000 New Reading Recommendations for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason, all published by Sasquatch Books. In 2004 she was awarded the Women's National Book Association Award, given to "a living American woman who has done meritorious work in the world of books beyond the duties or responsibilities of her profession or occupation." |
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Carl Schreier was born and raised in the Yellowstone and Grand Teton country of Wyoming, where his grandparents homesteaded at the turn of the nineteenth century. He studied wildlife habitat and journalism at the University of Montana, and completed further wildlife studies in East Africa. He is the founder and publisher of Homestead Publishing, located in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and San Francisco, California, and its subsidiaries for the past 30 years. As publisher he has produced several thousand bestselling books and scripts—having worked with the country’s leading writers, and developed productions for film, stage and television. He also is the author of more than 20 books and the recipient of national book and screen awards. |
Editing and Publishing |
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Rachel started at Putnam in June 2005 after eight years at Crown. Her areas of interest are narrative nonfiction - including historical narratives, memoir, reportage, and American regional narratives - as well as women's commercial fiction and women's historical fiction. She published the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide To Men and The Sweet Potato Queens' Big Ass Cookbook, plus the Times bestseller Tulipomania by Mike Dash. She also founded the very successful historical fiction program at Crown Publishers, which she managed for four years, and which produced national bestsellers such as Sarah by Marek Htitleer, The Book of Eleanor by Pamela Kaufman, and Guenevere by Rosalind Miles. While at Crown, she brought Jean Plaidy's classic historical novels back into print, which have now sold close to 600,000 copies. Her authors at Putnam include New York Times bestelling novelists Stuart Woods, Kate Mosse and Mark Mills, as well as Jack Whyte, C.J. Box, Ariana Franklin and Kate Jacobs. A native of Virginia, she graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in English and Spanish, as well as the Radcliffe Publishing Course. She has been a guest lecturer at the Columbia School of Journalism, New York University, the City College of New York as well as at many writers' conferences both in the U.S. and abroad. |
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A literary agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, Katharine has worked with a varied list of authors who publish a diverse array of books. Highlights include XTC: SongStories; Make Up, Don't Break Up with Oprah guest Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil; Ford model Helen Lee's The Tao of Beauty; Elvis and You, to name a few. She is the agent provocateur of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye, a collection of pitching wisdom from leading literary agents. Actively building her client list, she likes books that have a clear benefit for readers' lives in categories of food, travel, lifestyle, home arts, beauty, wisdom, relationships, parenting, and fresh looks which might be at issues, life challenges or popular culture. For compelling reads in faction, memoir and femoir, she like to be transported to a world rarely or newly observed; for fiction, she wants to be compelled and propelled. |
Wyoming Talks -- About Books |
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Barbara Chatton is a Professor in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at the University of Wyoming. She received the MLS from UCLA and the Ph.D. in Education from The Ohio State University. She has taught courses in children's and young adult literature at the University of Wyoming for the past 25 years. Her publications include two books, Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: A Whole Language Approach, and Blurring the Edges: Children's Literature and Writing Across the Curriculum. She writes and speaks frequently on children's poetry, literature of the American West, and the value of reading and literature across the curriculum. |
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Wayne G. Deahl is a division chair at Eastern Wyoming College, where he also teaches English, communication, and philosophy. As a graduate student, he studied with John Edgar Wideman who helped form his literary direction. Deahl's publications include short stories and poems, and he has taught poetry writing workshops for writing organizations as well as courses for college students. He served on the board of the Wyoming Council for the Humanities, as well as being president, and has led many book discussions in several communities. He currently is serving a term on the Wyoming Community Development Authority board of directors. Deahl lives just outside of Torrington with his wife, two dogs and five cats. He has two children–a stepson in graduate school in Laramie and a daughter attending Cal-State Long Beach. Deahl has a deep and abiding interest in literature, both as a writer and critic. |
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Rob Koelling is a Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Division at Northwest College in Powell. He grew up in Virginia, did his undergraduate work in North Carolina, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska, and landed in Wyoming in 1979. Over the years he's been involved in a wide range of literary and humanities programming around Wyoming, including a stint on the Humanities Council. He has published a variety of academic articles, newspaper columns, and The First National Bank of Powell: the History of a Bank, a Community, and a Family. Along with his wife, Deborah, he currently maintains the weblog "nHumanities." He is a founding member and serves on the Board of Directors of the Yellowstone Quake, a Junior B hockey team located in Cody. |
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Vicki Lindner is a fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who has published a novel, Outlaw Games, and co-authored, The Money Mirror, a book about women's psychological and cultural problems in relation to money. Her short stories, articles, and creative nonfiction have been widely published in magazines, including Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Seneca Review, the American Literary Review, and Gastronomica, as well as in anthologies like Deep West, Bearing Life: Women's Writings about Childlessness, and Chicklit: Postfeminist Fiction. Many of her provocative essays about moving West originally appeared in the Missoula journal, Northern Lights. She has recently completed a nonfiction manuscript, The Ballad of Frankie Jean: A Wrongful Death in Wyoming's Gem City. The Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Wyoming has taught creative writing to teenagers and adults throughout the West since 1988. She has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and two from the Wyoming Arts Council. |
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Warren Murphy serves as Director of the Wyoming Association of Churches where he works to bring together the faith and secular communities in order to advocate for positive change in Wyoming. He has long considered himself an activist beginning with the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 70s. An ordained Episcopal priest, he has served Wyoming congregations for over 30 years. He has a passion for free thinking, environmental protection, Wyoming history and nature studies. Warren is a past board member and president of the Wyoming Council for the Humanities and has also facilitated WCH book discussions. He currently serves on numerous boards including the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He is also researching a book that will tell the story of religion and spirituality in Wyoming's history. |
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Phil Roberts has taught the history of Wyoming and the American West at the University of Wyoming since 1990. A native of Lusk, Wyoming, he holds a law degree from the University of Wyoming and the Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. A former editor of Annals of Wyoming, he has written extensively on Wyoming history, He co-authored, with his two brothers, Wyoming Almanac (five editions since 1988). He is author of Readings in Wyoming History (four editions since 1994), Penny for the Governor, Dollar for Uncle Sam (University of Washington Press, 2002), and a history of delisting of national monuments to be published later this year. |
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Pete Simpson has been a major contributor to the study of Wyoming history and to the advancement of his alma mater, the University of Wyoming, where he taught for many years. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in history from UW and earned his PhD in history from the University of Oregon. Currently, he is UW's Vice President Emeritus for Institutional Advancement and Distinguished Simpson Professor of Political Science. Among the boards he serves on, he is Vice Chairman of the McCracken Research Library Advisory Board of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. A fourth generation Wyomingite, Simpson served two terms in the Wyoming House of Representatives. He is part of one of the state's most prominent political families: his father, Milward Simpson, served in the U.S. Senate and as Governor of Wyoming, and his brother, Alan K. Simpson, served in the U.S. Senate. At the Wyoming Book Festival, he will serve on a special panel discussion, "The West in Fact and Fiction" at 6 p.m. Friday Sept. 14 at the Historic Cheyenne Depot. |
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Sam Western Sam Western is a long-time correspondent for The Economist of London and a resident of Sheridan County. He is also author of Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River: Wyoming's Search for Its Soul. His conclusions have been the subject of debate and discussion among Wyomingites since the book was published in 2002. |
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Will Hobbs
Dick Morton
Jane Morton 
Jeanne Rogers
William Bradford Ross, III
Martin Murie
Masha Hamilton
Mark Harvey
Beverly Cox
Nancy Pearl
Carl Schreier
Rachel Kahan
Katharine Sands
Barbara Chatton
Wayne Deahl
Warren Murphy
Peter K. SimpsonFor more information, contact:
Susan Vittitow at 307/777-5915
or Tina Lackey 307/777-6338
bookfest@state.wy.us
Last Updated 9/10/07
