Featured Authors
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Tina Ann Forkner serves on the Laramie County Library Foundation Board of Directors and lives with her family in Wyoming. Tina's first novel, Ruby Among Us, released in May 20th, 2008 from Waterbrook Press, a division of Random House Publishers. Her second novel, Rose House, releases May 19th, 2009. Both of her novels are available at most local bookstores and online. |
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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 Sheriff Walt Longmire novels The Cold Dish, Death Without Company, Kindness Goes Unpunished, Another Man’s Moccasins and The Dark Horse with starred reviews in Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Each has been a Booksense pick with The Cold Dish a DILYS award finalist and Death Without Company the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book of the Year. Another Man’s Moccasins has received the Western Writer’s of America Spur Award and the Mountains and Plains book of the year. He lives in Ucross, WY, population 25. |
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Currently residing in Wyoming with his wife and son, Zachary Pullen’s character-oriented illustrations have been seen in numerous publications including The New York Times Book Review, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and The Wall Street Journal to name a few. Zak has been honored several times with acceptance into the prestigious Society of Illustrators juried shows and Communication Arts Illustration Annual of the best in current illustration. Clients include: The New York Times Book Review, Esquire Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, The Weekly Standard, The Progressive, Harvard Business Review, Delta Airlines, The National Geographic Society, Simon and Schuster, Chronicle Books, Penguin Putnam, Sleeping Bear Press, Henry Holt, Scholastic. |
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Cat Urbigkit has been a full-time writer since 1996. She is a correspondent for a variety of newspapers in the western region, freelances for several magazines, and is the author of a web-based news site for information about Rocky Mountain wolves. Cat writes and photographs non-fiction books for children. She also has an adult non-fiction book on the history of wolves in Wyoming due for publication in 2008. Cat has won numerous awards for her journalism, her books, and her photography. She lives on a working sheep and cattle ranch in western Wyoming with her family and her livestock guardian animals. |
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Cindy lives in Cheyenne, Wyo. with her husband Rich whose family has lived in the state for generations. She has a grown daughter and son-in-law, two grown step-daughters and two grown sons. She is a marketing specialist for Laramie County School District 1 and writes for the Public Schools Chronicle. She has written for True West and Wild West magazines and has won or placed in numerous writing contests. She enjoys crocheting, traveling, garage sales and many other hobbies. Writing is a life long passion that she will continue to pursue. Her books include The Saucy Lucy Murders and Paws-itively Guilty. |
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Known by many children as the "teacher who dances on his desk", Gene Gagliano is a retired elementary school teacher with a great sense of humor, who lives with his wife Carol at the base of the Bighorn Mountains in Buffalo, Wyoming. He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Western Writers, Wyoming Writers, Wyoming Poets, and the International Reading Association. Gene is the author of: C is for Cowboy, a Wyoming Alphabet; Four Wheels West, a Wyoming Number Book; V is for Venus Flytrap, a Plant Alphabet; My Teacher Dances on the Desk. He enjoys making his educational, entertaining and inspirational school visits, as well as presenting for adults at conferences and library functions. Gene's hobbies include hiking, canoeing, singing, reading, painting, and gardening. |
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“Cowgirl Peg” Sundberg has dreamed of being an author her whole life. She finally decided to try to fulfill her lifelong dream as a children’s author. She wanted to write stories that really meant something to children. Thus, her books teach children lessons about responsibility, friendship, peer pressure and much more. Cowgirl Peg resides in Wheatland, Wyo. but spends much of her time visiting schools, libraries and places all over the United States trying to teach children the same kind of skills and morals within her books. |
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“Cowgirl Peg” SundbergFor more information, contact:
Tina Lackey 307/777-6338
bookfest@state.wy.us
Last Updated 8/10/09
