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Robert Andreach
Robert Andreach is a former university professor and theater reviewer.
He is the author of many books, most recently John Guare's Theatre,
Len Jenkin's Theatre, and The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy. Other works include Studies in Structure: The Stages of the Spiritual Life
in Four Modern Authors; The Slain and Resurrected God: Conrad, Ford,
and the Christian Myth; Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre (a Choice magazine outstanding academic title for 2000); Drawing Upon the Past: Classical Theatre in the Contemporary American Theatre; and Understanding Beth Henley.
Robert Andreach’s book, Dramatic Structure in the Contemporary American Theatre
Robert Andreach is a former university professor and theater reviewer.
He is the author of many books, most recently John Guare's Theatre,
Len Jenkin's Theatre, and The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy. Other works include Studies in Structure: The Stages of the Spiritual Life
in Four Modern Authors; The Slain and Resurrected God: Conrad, Ford,
and the Christian Myth; Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre (a Choice magazine outstanding academic title for 2000); Drawing Upon the Past: Classical Theatre in the Contemporary American Theatre; and Understanding Beth Henley.
Robert Andreach’s book, Dramatic Structure in the Contemporary American Theatre
Keen Butterworth
Keen Butterworth was born and raised in Tidewater Virginia, south of the James. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College, served three and a half years on board ship as a Navy officer, taught high school in Petersburg, Virginia, for three years, and then attended graduate school at the University of South Carolina. He taught in the English department at South Carolina from 1970 until 2009. He now divides his year between Columbia, South Carolina, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he and his wife, Nancy, bought a house in 2011.
Keen Butterworth’s novel, The Scourge. The video book trailer for The Scourge. Download an insightful interview with Keen about The Scourge.
Keen Butterworth was born and raised in Tidewater Virginia, south of the James. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College, served three and a half years on board ship as a Navy officer, taught high school in Petersburg, Virginia, for three years, and then attended graduate school at the University of South Carolina. He taught in the English department at South Carolina from 1970 until 2009. He now divides his year between Columbia, South Carolina, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he and his wife, Nancy, bought a house in 2011.
Keen Butterworth’s novel, The Scourge. The video book trailer for The Scourge. Download an insightful interview with Keen about The Scourge.
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Ronald Chapman
Ronald Chapman has followed many paths of spiritual and religious study over the past thirty years. As a workshop leader and motivational speaker, he has shown countless people how Seeing True,™ his signature practice, can produce extraordinary changes in their lives.
Chapman is one of only sixty-eight International Accredited Speakers recognized by Toastmasters International. He is the author of the novels
A Killer's Grace and My Name is Wonder, along with the inspirational books Seeing True: Ninety Contemplations in Ninety Days and What a Wonderful World: Seeing Through New Eyes. In 2015 and 2016, Ozark Mountain Publishing released audio sets that complement his writings. Breathing, Releasing and Breaking Through: Practice for Seeing True explores the use of breathwork and meditation to promote inner healing. Seeing True: The Way of Spirit presents a psycho-spiritual philosophy and practices for transforming what and how we see.
You can learn more about his transformational philosophy at www.SeeingTrue.com, and about its application to twelve-step recovery at www.ProgressiveRecovery.org. For more information about Chapman’s entire portfolio, visit: www.RonaldChapman.com.
Ronald Chapman's novels, The Dark Side of Grace, A Killer's Grace, My Name Is Wonder and his video book trailer for A Killer's Grace.
Ronald Chapman has followed many paths of spiritual and religious study over the past thirty years. As a workshop leader and motivational speaker, he has shown countless people how Seeing True,™ his signature practice, can produce extraordinary changes in their lives.
Chapman is one of only sixty-eight International Accredited Speakers recognized by Toastmasters International. He is the author of the novels
A Killer's Grace and My Name is Wonder, along with the inspirational books Seeing True: Ninety Contemplations in Ninety Days and What a Wonderful World: Seeing Through New Eyes. In 2015 and 2016, Ozark Mountain Publishing released audio sets that complement his writings. Breathing, Releasing and Breaking Through: Practice for Seeing True explores the use of breathwork and meditation to promote inner healing. Seeing True: The Way of Spirit presents a psycho-spiritual philosophy and practices for transforming what and how we see.
You can learn more about his transformational philosophy at www.SeeingTrue.com, and about its application to twelve-step recovery at www.ProgressiveRecovery.org. For more information about Chapman’s entire portfolio, visit: www.RonaldChapman.com.
Ronald Chapman's novels, The Dark Side of Grace, A Killer's Grace, My Name Is Wonder and his video book trailer for A Killer's Grace.
R. Douglas Clark
R. Douglas Clark is a small business entrepreneur, father, baseball fan, and musician who grew up in Colorado and Oregon and now lives on a raspberry farm in Chimayó, New Mexico. After 25 years as a Eugene, Oregon, business owner, he moved in 2002 to Chimayó, where he ran the local Boys and Girls Club before retiring a second time and shifting his main focus to fiction—resulting now in his first novel, American Odyssey.
R. Douglas Clark’s books, American Odyssey and the combined edition of
American Odyssey and The Odyssey, and his book trailer for American Odyssey
R. Douglas Clark is a small business entrepreneur, father, baseball fan, and musician who grew up in Colorado and Oregon and now lives on a raspberry farm in Chimayó, New Mexico. After 25 years as a Eugene, Oregon, business owner, he moved in 2002 to Chimayó, where he ran the local Boys and Girls Club before retiring a second time and shifting his main focus to fiction—resulting now in his first novel, American Odyssey.
R. Douglas Clark’s books, American Odyssey and the combined edition of
American Odyssey and The Odyssey, and his book trailer for American Odyssey
Dave DeWitt
If Dave DeWitt’s life were a menu, it would feature dishes as diverse as alligator stew and apple pie à la mode—not to mention the beloved chile peppers that have become the basic ingredient of so many of his projects and accomplishments.
Since starting out in the electronic media, DeWitt has built careers as a businessman, educator, administrator, producer, on-camera personality, author, and publisher. Besides writing more than forty books (mostly on fiery foods but also including novels, food histories, and travel guides), he was a founder of Chile Pepper magazine and Fiery Foods & Barbecue magazine.
The interest in spicy foods that has helped make DeWitt one of the foremost authorities in the world has led to such best-sellers as The Whole Chile Pepper Book, The Pepper Garden, The Hot Sauce Bible, The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia, The Spicy Food Lover’s Bible, and Chile Trivia.
DeWitt is an associate professor in Consumer and Environmental Sciences on the adjunct faculty of New Mexico State University, and also serves as chair of the Board of Regents of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum.
Dave DeWitt’s books, Jalapeños, New Mexican Chiles, Ancho and Poblano Chiles, Sweet Heat, The Essential Chile Sauce Guide, The Essential Hot Spice Guide
If Dave DeWitt’s life were a menu, it would feature dishes as diverse as alligator stew and apple pie à la mode—not to mention the beloved chile peppers that have become the basic ingredient of so many of his projects and accomplishments.
Since starting out in the electronic media, DeWitt has built careers as a businessman, educator, administrator, producer, on-camera personality, author, and publisher. Besides writing more than forty books (mostly on fiery foods but also including novels, food histories, and travel guides), he was a founder of Chile Pepper magazine and Fiery Foods & Barbecue magazine.
The interest in spicy foods that has helped make DeWitt one of the foremost authorities in the world has led to such best-sellers as The Whole Chile Pepper Book, The Pepper Garden, The Hot Sauce Bible, The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia, The Spicy Food Lover’s Bible, and Chile Trivia.
DeWitt is an associate professor in Consumer and Environmental Sciences on the adjunct faculty of New Mexico State University, and also serves as chair of the Board of Regents of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum.
Dave DeWitt’s books, Jalapeños, New Mexican Chiles, Ancho and Poblano Chiles, Sweet Heat, The Essential Chile Sauce Guide, The Essential Hot Spice Guide
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William Frank
William Frank is a professor emeritus of tropical meteorology who has succeeded far beyond the world of professional journals in bringing a distinctive literary style to the modern detective story. His unique focus is on the one form of major crime that is primarily pursued by private detectives: international art theft. His first novel, Young Blood and Old Paint, was a finalist in the Private Eye Writers of America’s best first novel contest. Georgia in the Wind, his short story introducing the McNaul brothers, was selected from among 200 submissions for Mystery Writers of America’s 2019 anthology, Odd Partners.
William Frank's novels Young Blood and Old Paint and The Pirate Queen's Daughter
William Frank is a professor emeritus of tropical meteorology who has succeeded far beyond the world of professional journals in bringing a distinctive literary style to the modern detective story. His unique focus is on the one form of major crime that is primarily pursued by private detectives: international art theft. His first novel, Young Blood and Old Paint, was a finalist in the Private Eye Writers of America’s best first novel contest. Georgia in the Wind, his short story introducing the McNaul brothers, was selected from among 200 submissions for Mystery Writers of America’s 2019 anthology, Odd Partners.
William Frank's novels Young Blood and Old Paint and The Pirate Queen's Daughter
Dr. Charles Franklin
In Create the Life You Need! Dr. Charles Franklin, PhD, LCSW, BCD, has brought together for the first time the full range of tried-and-true methods and techniques developed over his long career as a therapist and teacher. Together, they offer invaluable help for us all in facing life’s many diverse challenges.
Holder of a master’s degree in social work and a doctorate in sociology, Dr. Franklin is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and a certified Divorce and Child Custody Mediator. In addition to his research, writing, and personal counseling work, he has provided private and public outpatient community mental health and inpatient services to a broad range of clients since 1971.
He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at six universities in family therapy, social welfare, social psychology, sociology of conflict, and social conflict analysis. His expertise and multiple problem-solving approaches to psychological and interpersonal problems also have led to wide success as an educator, negotiator, program manager, consultant, administrator, and leader in his profession.
As a volunteer, Dr. Franklin has provided family mental health care after major disaster, community services during racial violence, psychiatric inpatient services, and educational/community development aid in Guatemala.
Dr. Charles Franklin’s book, Create the Life You Need!
In Create the Life You Need! Dr. Charles Franklin, PhD, LCSW, BCD, has brought together for the first time the full range of tried-and-true methods and techniques developed over his long career as a therapist and teacher. Together, they offer invaluable help for us all in facing life’s many diverse challenges.
Holder of a master’s degree in social work and a doctorate in sociology, Dr. Franklin is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and a certified Divorce and Child Custody Mediator. In addition to his research, writing, and personal counseling work, he has provided private and public outpatient community mental health and inpatient services to a broad range of clients since 1971.
He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at six universities in family therapy, social welfare, social psychology, sociology of conflict, and social conflict analysis. His expertise and multiple problem-solving approaches to psychological and interpersonal problems also have led to wide success as an educator, negotiator, program manager, consultant, administrator, and leader in his profession.
As a volunteer, Dr. Franklin has provided family mental health care after major disaster, community services during racial violence, psychiatric inpatient services, and educational/community development aid in Guatemala.
Dr. Charles Franklin’s book, Create the Life You Need!
Michael French
Friends of Michael French describe him as a “hyperactive omnivore” (a charge he admits to) feeding on politics, art, capitalism, religion, history, travel, and popular culture.
After receiving an English degree from Stanford and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University, he was drafted into the Army and became editor of the post newspaper—“a two-year, tuition-free education about bureaucracy and humanity.” He and his wife, Patricia, moved to Santa Fe in 1978, and started a real estate company and a family. Squeezing in writing time whenever he could, he published his first novel, a best-seller, Abingdon’s, with Doubleday in 1979. “My father always said one needed a work ethic to be successful,” French recalls. “But I didn’t know that would mean having three jobs—the real estate company, raising children, and writing—for the next two decades.”
For French, ideas for books come at unexpected times—visiting a hill village in Myanmar, a seventeen-hour plane haul on which sleep-deprived hallucinations can briefly turn you into a genius, or sometimes just a bite on a blueberry muffin (Proust’s madeleine!).
French’s work, which includes several best-sellers, has been warmly reviewed in the New York Times and been honored with a number of literary prizes.
Michael French’s novels, The Reconstruction of Wilson Ryder, and Once Upon A Lie, and his interview and readings.
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Friends of Michael French describe him as a “hyperactive omnivore” (a charge he admits to) feeding on politics, art, capitalism, religion, history, travel, and popular culture.
After receiving an English degree from Stanford and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University, he was drafted into the Army and became editor of the post newspaper—“a two-year, tuition-free education about bureaucracy and humanity.” He and his wife, Patricia, moved to Santa Fe in 1978, and started a real estate company and a family. Squeezing in writing time whenever he could, he published his first novel, a best-seller, Abingdon’s, with Doubleday in 1979. “My father always said one needed a work ethic to be successful,” French recalls. “But I didn’t know that would mean having three jobs—the real estate company, raising children, and writing—for the next two decades.”
For French, ideas for books come at unexpected times—visiting a hill village in Myanmar, a seventeen-hour plane haul on which sleep-deprived hallucinations can briefly turn you into a genius, or sometimes just a bite on a blueberry muffin (Proust’s madeleine!).
French’s work, which includes several best-sellers, has been warmly reviewed in the New York Times and been honored with a number of literary prizes.
Michael French’s novels, The Reconstruction of Wilson Ryder, and Once Upon A Lie, and his interview and readings.
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Barbara Gerber
Barbara Gerber is a writer, editor, and high school teacher who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and two children. Originally from Long Island, New York, she often finds herself dreaming of the ocean, looking for another cat to adopt, and eating entirely too much chocolate. This is her first novel.
Barbara Gerber’s novel, Love and Death in a Perfect World, and her blog, BarbaraGerberAuthor.com
Barbara Gerber is a writer, editor, and high school teacher who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and two children. Originally from Long Island, New York, she often finds herself dreaming of the ocean, looking for another cat to adopt, and eating entirely too much chocolate. This is her first novel.
Barbara Gerber’s novel, Love and Death in a Perfect World, and her blog, BarbaraGerberAuthor.com
Marty Gerber
Marty Gerber has an addiction to New Mexico. His misguided efforts to relocate elsewhere after first moving here in 1979 have always failed.
There was the “detox” he threw himself into north of Seattle, a “rehab” a few years later in California—but always a relapse. Finally, the truth had to be faced: He was hopelessly hooked on that land and sky reaching into forever; the creative energy giving writer, musician, visual artist a shared common language; even the saturation of its cliches like the cultures, the light, the chile.
And the fact that most of his New Mexico years were spent in the newspaper business in Albuquerque and Santa Fe certainly didn’t help. Instead, they created an even deeper immersion, time in which both work and play kept him digging deeper and learning more about the fascinating state he’d adopted. He’s driven its miles, walked its trails, seen its sights, read its histories, visited its museums, eaten and imbibed in big cities, small towns, and much that’s in between. He feels blessed that his family shares his love for the state and (mostly) makes a home here as well.
Marty is also the editor of Terra Nova Books.
Marty Gerber's book, Fascinating Facts of New Mexico: Aliens, Artists, Atoms, and More
Marty Gerber has an addiction to New Mexico. His misguided efforts to relocate elsewhere after first moving here in 1979 have always failed.
There was the “detox” he threw himself into north of Seattle, a “rehab” a few years later in California—but always a relapse. Finally, the truth had to be faced: He was hopelessly hooked on that land and sky reaching into forever; the creative energy giving writer, musician, visual artist a shared common language; even the saturation of its cliches like the cultures, the light, the chile.
And the fact that most of his New Mexico years were spent in the newspaper business in Albuquerque and Santa Fe certainly didn’t help. Instead, they created an even deeper immersion, time in which both work and play kept him digging deeper and learning more about the fascinating state he’d adopted. He’s driven its miles, walked its trails, seen its sights, read its histories, visited its museums, eaten and imbibed in big cities, small towns, and much that’s in between. He feels blessed that his family shares his love for the state and (mostly) makes a home here as well.
Marty is also the editor of Terra Nova Books.
Marty Gerber's book, Fascinating Facts of New Mexico: Aliens, Artists, Atoms, and More
Karen Glinski
Born in Yokohama, Japan, Karen Glinski grew up the eldest of six children in a military family and spent many years reading to her siblings and creating make-believe stories for them. As an anthropology major, she formed a life-long interest in the Native cultures of the Southwest. Her two previously published books in the Emerson and Lucky series were Stranded at Sheep Camp and Danger at the Rodeo. She has also been a technical writer and is working on a picture book featuring Mr. Bojangles, her miniature dachshund, stowing away on her hot air balloon while she’s doing a long-distance flight.
Karen Glinksi's book, Badge of Honor
Born in Yokohama, Japan, Karen Glinski grew up the eldest of six children in a military family and spent many years reading to her siblings and creating make-believe stories for them. As an anthropology major, she formed a life-long interest in the Native cultures of the Southwest. Her two previously published books in the Emerson and Lucky series were Stranded at Sheep Camp and Danger at the Rodeo. She has also been a technical writer and is working on a picture book featuring Mr. Bojangles, her miniature dachshund, stowing away on her hot air balloon while she’s doing a long-distance flight.
Karen Glinksi's book, Badge of Honor
Wally Gordon
Wally Gordon has been a writer and editor for newspapers and magazines for more than fifty years, beginning with a summer job at the New York Times when he was sixteen years old. Since then, his career has carried him to all fifty states and more than sixty foreign countries. He wrote a novel in Spain, edited a newspaper in American Samoa, taught at a university in West Africa, and served in the U.S. Army in Iran.
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he has a diploma from Philips Exeter Academy and a degree in history from Brown University, and has done graduate work in politics and government at Columbia, George Washington, and American universities.
After a decade at the Baltimore Sun, including a stint as Washington Bureau manager, in 1978 Gordon moved to New Mexico, which has been his home ever since.
In 1999, he founded The Independent, a weekly newspaper based in Edgewood, New Mexico, and serving the three-county area east of Albuquerque. Although no longer the owner, he continues to write his “Mountain Musing” column for the paper every week. Many of the pieces in this volume began life as his newspaper columns.
Wally Gordon’s book, A Reporter’s World: Passions, Places, and People, and readings and interview
Wally Gordon has been a writer and editor for newspapers and magazines for more than fifty years, beginning with a summer job at the New York Times when he was sixteen years old. Since then, his career has carried him to all fifty states and more than sixty foreign countries. He wrote a novel in Spain, edited a newspaper in American Samoa, taught at a university in West Africa, and served in the U.S. Army in Iran.
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he has a diploma from Philips Exeter Academy and a degree in history from Brown University, and has done graduate work in politics and government at Columbia, George Washington, and American universities.
After a decade at the Baltimore Sun, including a stint as Washington Bureau manager, in 1978 Gordon moved to New Mexico, which has been his home ever since.
In 1999, he founded The Independent, a weekly newspaper based in Edgewood, New Mexico, and serving the three-county area east of Albuquerque. Although no longer the owner, he continues to write his “Mountain Musing” column for the paper every week. Many of the pieces in this volume began life as his newspaper columns.
Wally Gordon’s book, A Reporter’s World: Passions, Places, and People, and readings and interview
Jaenet Guggenheim
Jaenet Guggenheim has written and illustrated several books. Her first book, Herman and Poppy Go Singing in the Hills, tells the tale of a horse and a pony in the high desert plateau of New Mexico. The second book she illustrated, Grow, Grow, Grow, is illustrated using a distinctive cut-paper technique. She is also the author, with Dr. Spencer G. Lucas, of Triassic Hall and a solo book, JNG Cartoons, The Fussy Little Butterfly, The Fussy Little Butterfly Goes Outside, and, most recently, Look Roger, It's Florence!
Jaenet Guggenheim has written and illustrated several books. Her first book, Herman and Poppy Go Singing in the Hills, tells the tale of a horse and a pony in the high desert plateau of New Mexico. The second book she illustrated, Grow, Grow, Grow, is illustrated using a distinctive cut-paper technique. She is also the author, with Dr. Spencer G. Lucas, of Triassic Hall and a solo book, JNG Cartoons, The Fussy Little Butterfly, The Fussy Little Butterfly Goes Outside, and, most recently, Look Roger, It's Florence!
Siegfried Halus
Siegfried Halus, a native of Salzburg, Austria, immigrated to the United States with his family when he was eight years old. After apprenticing with his father, a liturgical sculptor, he received his undergraduate degree in sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and University of Pennsylvania.
The Academy’s emphasis on human anatomy and its focus on drawing and life-size clay modeling ultimately translated for Halus into the carving of marble and wood with invention and passion. After graduate studies at the University of Hartford, he began redirecting his interests to photography, while still holding fast to the magic within the human form. The provocative imagery that resulted has evolved consistently for more than four decades, leading to the application of innovative lighting methods and striking narratives to his work in New Mexico’s nocturnal desert settings, as well as the exploration of gender and mythic issues and the introduction of ancient myths into a contemporary allegory.
Halus has taught photography at numerous universities and colleges, and has developed and defined photography and fine arts programs in this country and abroad. Working through the Boston Museum School and Tufts University, he brought the Museum School’s International Summer Program to Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, exposing students to his love of New Mexico and challenging them to venture into new aspects of their work. He also strategized and conceptualized the design of the fine arts complex at Santa Fe Community College, playing a major role in the creation of a healthy, sustainable venue for students and faculty, as well as overseeing its construction.
Halus’s photographs have been widely exhibited and are in numerous museum collections throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. He has produced extensive documentary projects including Vodou Rituals of Haiti, Destruction of the Olivetti and Underwood Factory, and Lovers.
He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Siegfried Halus's book, Fishing the Desert
Siegfried Halus, a native of Salzburg, Austria, immigrated to the United States with his family when he was eight years old. After apprenticing with his father, a liturgical sculptor, he received his undergraduate degree in sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and University of Pennsylvania.
The Academy’s emphasis on human anatomy and its focus on drawing and life-size clay modeling ultimately translated for Halus into the carving of marble and wood with invention and passion. After graduate studies at the University of Hartford, he began redirecting his interests to photography, while still holding fast to the magic within the human form. The provocative imagery that resulted has evolved consistently for more than four decades, leading to the application of innovative lighting methods and striking narratives to his work in New Mexico’s nocturnal desert settings, as well as the exploration of gender and mythic issues and the introduction of ancient myths into a contemporary allegory.
Halus has taught photography at numerous universities and colleges, and has developed and defined photography and fine arts programs in this country and abroad. Working through the Boston Museum School and Tufts University, he brought the Museum School’s International Summer Program to Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, exposing students to his love of New Mexico and challenging them to venture into new aspects of their work. He also strategized and conceptualized the design of the fine arts complex at Santa Fe Community College, playing a major role in the creation of a healthy, sustainable venue for students and faculty, as well as overseeing its construction.
Halus’s photographs have been widely exhibited and are in numerous museum collections throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. He has produced extensive documentary projects including Vodou Rituals of Haiti, Destruction of the Olivetti and Underwood Factory, and Lovers.
He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Siegfried Halus's book, Fishing the Desert
Laura Davis Hays
Laura Hays is a longtime Santa Fe resident who has combined her prize-winning fiction writing with a business career that has included accounting, marketing, real estate, and computer consulting as well as a major role in her husband’s successful construction business. She is also a performing musician and composer.
Laura Hay’s novel, Incarnation
Laura Hays is a longtime Santa Fe resident who has combined her prize-winning fiction writing with a business career that has included accounting, marketing, real estate, and computer consulting as well as a major role in her husband’s successful construction business. She is also a performing musician and composer.
Laura Hay’s novel, Incarnation
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Richard Heady
Richard Heady is a retired computer scientist whose experience includes many years’ work in software engineering, systems analysis, and computer management for biomedical research.
It is a background ready-made for his launch into the world of speculative fiction with his first novel, The Embudo Virus—“a thought experiment,” as he puts it, that “does not limit its vision to ordinary consensual reality.”
Heady is a graduate of Temple University and Western Michigan University. His short stories have appeared in Carve Magazine and Aethlon, and he is also a co-author of several scientific publications. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Richard Heady's novel, The Embudo Virus
Richard Heady is a retired computer scientist whose experience includes many years’ work in software engineering, systems analysis, and computer management for biomedical research.
It is a background ready-made for his launch into the world of speculative fiction with his first novel, The Embudo Virus—“a thought experiment,” as he puts it, that “does not limit its vision to ordinary consensual reality.”
Heady is a graduate of Temple University and Western Michigan University. His short stories have appeared in Carve Magazine and Aethlon, and he is also a co-author of several scientific publications. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Richard Heady's novel, The Embudo Virus
Francie Healey
Francie Healey has a Master’s Degree in Counseling and is both a Certified Health Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Santa Fe, N.M.
Francie is a health and wellness expert who uses a holistic framework to educate people about what and how to eat in order to feel energized, grounded, and well-nourished. She counsels and educates her clients about holistic nutrition, health and wellness, meal planning, how to cook simple, nutritious meals, food label literacy, developing a healthy relationship with food, achieving and sustaining a healthy weight, emotional eating, reducing cravings, and the connection between food and mood.
In addition to providing health and nutrition counseling, life coaching, and phone consultations, Francie teaches and writes on a variety of health and wellness topics. She wrote and developed recipes for “Protein Power,” a cooking feature published in Mothering magazine.
Over the years, Francie has continued to explore the relationship between brain health and nutrition by following new research in the field. Evidence strongly suggests that the progression of Alzheimer’s and other forms of cognitive decline can be delayed and in some cases prevented with dietary changes.
Francie says of her practice: “I help my clients to identify the core values in their lives and to understand how emotional eating can affect the realization of their goals. In addition, I help them develop strategies around food that support their vision for wellness in a meaningful and sustainable way.”
Francis Healey's book, Eat to Beat Alzheimer's
Francie Healey has a Master’s Degree in Counseling and is both a Certified Health Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Santa Fe, N.M.
Francie is a health and wellness expert who uses a holistic framework to educate people about what and how to eat in order to feel energized, grounded, and well-nourished. She counsels and educates her clients about holistic nutrition, health and wellness, meal planning, how to cook simple, nutritious meals, food label literacy, developing a healthy relationship with food, achieving and sustaining a healthy weight, emotional eating, reducing cravings, and the connection between food and mood.
In addition to providing health and nutrition counseling, life coaching, and phone consultations, Francie teaches and writes on a variety of health and wellness topics. She wrote and developed recipes for “Protein Power,” a cooking feature published in Mothering magazine.
Over the years, Francie has continued to explore the relationship between brain health and nutrition by following new research in the field. Evidence strongly suggests that the progression of Alzheimer’s and other forms of cognitive decline can be delayed and in some cases prevented with dietary changes.
Francie says of her practice: “I help my clients to identify the core values in their lives and to understand how emotional eating can affect the realization of their goals. In addition, I help them develop strategies around food that support their vision for wellness in a meaningful and sustainable way.”
Francis Healey's book, Eat to Beat Alzheimer's
Michele Heeney
For many years, Michele Heeney’s life was centered around giving birth in the literal sense, as an obstetrics and gynecology nurse practitioner. But at the same time, her creativity in the more-personal sense also was flourishing: “I was always writing poetry and taking pictures.”
Now that the medical world has shifted into the past for her, the poetic and visual arts have leaped to the fore, producing images of striking beauty as well as her new books of poetry, The Monkey Tree and The Polka Dot Chair. And throughout this artistic journey, as both bodies of work powerfully declare, has run the unifying thread of Heeney’s deep love for nature.
Moving west to the energy of San Francisco in the ’60s opened up her vision to a changing world. California became her new home, working as a nurse practitioner while also being caretaker of a 6,000-acre wilderness ranch.
These are the links that informed her work, and travel over the years completed the chain. West Africa with the Peace Corps, learning Spanish in Costa Rica, scuba diving in Fiji and Micronesia—just a few of the many places whose experiences merge today to feed Heeney’s imagination and gift for lyric imagery.
Michele Heeney’s books of poetry, The Polka Dot Chair, The Monkey Tree
For many years, Michele Heeney’s life was centered around giving birth in the literal sense, as an obstetrics and gynecology nurse practitioner. But at the same time, her creativity in the more-personal sense also was flourishing: “I was always writing poetry and taking pictures.”
Now that the medical world has shifted into the past for her, the poetic and visual arts have leaped to the fore, producing images of striking beauty as well as her new books of poetry, The Monkey Tree and The Polka Dot Chair. And throughout this artistic journey, as both bodies of work powerfully declare, has run the unifying thread of Heeney’s deep love for nature.
Moving west to the energy of San Francisco in the ’60s opened up her vision to a changing world. California became her new home, working as a nurse practitioner while also being caretaker of a 6,000-acre wilderness ranch.
These are the links that informed her work, and travel over the years completed the chain. West Africa with the Peace Corps, learning Spanish in Costa Rica, scuba diving in Fiji and Micronesia—just a few of the many places whose experiences merge today to feed Heeney’s imagination and gift for lyric imagery.
Michele Heeney’s books of poetry, The Polka Dot Chair, The Monkey Tree
Bairbre Higgins
Born and educated in Cork, Ireland, Bairbre Higgins worked in Dublin’s financial world for sixteen years but is now focused full-time on writing.
A period of intensive coast-to-coast business travel in the U.S. during the early years of the twenty-first century helped provide the inspiration for
San Francisco-based hedge fund partner Ariel Mignolet, the main protagonist in her debut thriller, The Torchbearers.
Wife of one, mother of three, and servant of two (dogs), she believes in the power of curiosity and that education is the cure for the world’s worst ills. She lives in Dublin
Bairbre Higgins's book, The Torchbearers
Born and educated in Cork, Ireland, Bairbre Higgins worked in Dublin’s financial world for sixteen years but is now focused full-time on writing.
A period of intensive coast-to-coast business travel in the U.S. during the early years of the twenty-first century helped provide the inspiration for
San Francisco-based hedge fund partner Ariel Mignolet, the main protagonist in her debut thriller, The Torchbearers.
Wife of one, mother of three, and servant of two (dogs), she believes in the power of curiosity and that education is the cure for the world’s worst ills. She lives in Dublin
Bairbre Higgins's book, The Torchbearers
Kathy Hirshon
Kathy Hirshon graduated from Fontbonne College in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved to New York City. She enjoyed a career in magazine publishing, working for the Hearst Corporation and Time Inc., among others. Marrying Ken Hirshon in 1992, she moved to Stamford, Connecticut.
Kathy painted murals, taught art at Bi-Cultural Day School and created a solo exhibition for the Bartlett Arboretum. Her show, “Spirited Trees,” inspired the book Echoes: Listening to the Voices in Spirited Trees by Michelina Docimo.
The Hirshons now live in Santa Fe, where Kathy’s fine art, her charred narratives which are painted and burned into wood, have been represented by the Gaugy Gallery on Canyon Road.
Kathy Hirshon's book, The Turquoise Lady
Kathy Hirshon graduated from Fontbonne College in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved to New York City. She enjoyed a career in magazine publishing, working for the Hearst Corporation and Time Inc., among others. Marrying Ken Hirshon in 1992, she moved to Stamford, Connecticut.
Kathy painted murals, taught art at Bi-Cultural Day School and created a solo exhibition for the Bartlett Arboretum. Her show, “Spirited Trees,” inspired the book Echoes: Listening to the Voices in Spirited Trees by Michelina Docimo.
The Hirshons now live in Santa Fe, where Kathy’s fine art, her charred narratives which are painted and burned into wood, have been represented by the Gaugy Gallery on Canyon Road.
Kathy Hirshon's book, The Turquoise Lady
Homer
Homer was the ancient bard who gave Western literature the works we call The Iliad and The Odyssey—if he ever existed.
While no proven facts document the life of a historical person named Homer—and even the question of a single author for the tales has been debated for centuries—there is no disputing the power of the stories and the fascination of the interplay among its characters, both human and divine.
The man we call Homer, unquestionably the greatest of the Greek epic poets, is believed to have lived in the eastern Mediterranean early in the millennium before the Christian Era. Over the centuries, he often has been characterized as a blind beggar wandering among the towns and cities of his world, singing at their rites and festivals.
Whatever the reality, though, about the author of The Odyssey—whom Samuel Butler even theorized was really a young Sicilian woman—the work itself is the unrivaled culmination of the great ancient tradition of oral story-telling. Through the countless forms and languages it has survived in, The Odyssey continues to speak for itself. Almost three thousand years later, we hail its creator!
Homer's book, American Odyssey and The Odyssey
Homer was the ancient bard who gave Western literature the works we call The Iliad and The Odyssey—if he ever existed.
While no proven facts document the life of a historical person named Homer—and even the question of a single author for the tales has been debated for centuries—there is no disputing the power of the stories and the fascination of the interplay among its characters, both human and divine.
The man we call Homer, unquestionably the greatest of the Greek epic poets, is believed to have lived in the eastern Mediterranean early in the millennium before the Christian Era. Over the centuries, he often has been characterized as a blind beggar wandering among the towns and cities of his world, singing at their rites and festivals.
Whatever the reality, though, about the author of The Odyssey—whom Samuel Butler even theorized was really a young Sicilian woman—the work itself is the unrivaled culmination of the great ancient tradition of oral story-telling. Through the countless forms and languages it has survived in, The Odyssey continues to speak for itself. Almost three thousand years later, we hail its creator!
Homer's book, American Odyssey and The Odyssey
John Hoyte
As one of six children of British missionaries in China, John Hoyte grew up in a life built on family and faith—until World War II swept through, putting him and his siblings in a Japanese internment camp for nearly four years. Grit, determination, and imagination were the only way to survive—and they became the basis for the seven decades that followed, marked by such amazing exploits for Hoyte as leading an elephant across the Alps to follow in Hannibal’s path and perfecting an invention that launched a 50-year career in Silicon Valley.
John Hoyte's book, Persistence of Light: in a Japanese Prison Camp, with an Elephant Crossing the Alps and then in Silicon Valley
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As one of six children of British missionaries in China, John Hoyte grew up in a life built on family and faith—until World War II swept through, putting him and his siblings in a Japanese internment camp for nearly four years. Grit, determination, and imagination were the only way to survive—and they became the basis for the seven decades that followed, marked by such amazing exploits for Hoyte as leading an elephant across the Alps to follow in Hannibal’s path and perfecting an invention that launched a 50-year career in Silicon Valley.
John Hoyte's book, Persistence of Light: in a Japanese Prison Camp, with an Elephant Crossing the Alps and then in Silicon Valley
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Carrie T. Ishee
Carrie Ishee has been a student of healing, human potential, and consciousness for more than 35 years. Her quest to know herself began in college when a severe health crisis compounded by her psychiatrist’s seduction and sexual abuse shattered her physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
After doctoral studies in clinical psychology, she worked as a behavioral therapist, pursued a master’s degree in art therapy, and later completed a two-year training program in life coaching. Her work today is focused on helping victims such as she once was break free from the suffocating shroud of trauma to create lives of meaning, purpose, and passion.
Carrie's book, Seduced into Darkness
Carrie Ishee has been a student of healing, human potential, and consciousness for more than 35 years. Her quest to know herself began in college when a severe health crisis compounded by her psychiatrist’s seduction and sexual abuse shattered her physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
After doctoral studies in clinical psychology, she worked as a behavioral therapist, pursued a master’s degree in art therapy, and later completed a two-year training program in life coaching. Her work today is focused on helping victims such as she once was break free from the suffocating shroud of trauma to create lives of meaning, purpose, and passion.
Carrie's book, Seduced into Darkness
David Jenness
David Jenness, after earning bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees from Columbia University, had a long and successful career organizing and funding research projects for major private foundations, learned societies, and government, including the National Science Foundation. He published more than thirty papers in scientific or professional journals, and was the author, among other books, of Making Sense of Social Studies and Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, honored in 2006 as the year’s best book on popular music. He and his husband, Kenneth Alan Collins, lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He passed away shortly before Two Smart Boys went to press.
David Jenness's book, Two Smart Boys: The Record of a Friendship 1953–1965
David Jenness, after earning bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees from Columbia University, had a long and successful career organizing and funding research projects for major private foundations, learned societies, and government, including the National Science Foundation. He published more than thirty papers in scientific or professional journals, and was the author, among other books, of Making Sense of Social Studies and Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, honored in 2006 as the year’s best book on popular music. He and his husband, Kenneth Alan Collins, lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He passed away shortly before Two Smart Boys went to press.
David Jenness's book, Two Smart Boys: The Record of a Friendship 1953–1965
Earl Kessler
Earl Kessler’s life has been devoted to building communities, in both the physical and the interpersonal senses. In Panama, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, that work has meant applying the lessons first learned in the Peace Corps in the Colombian village whose birth he describes in Letters from Alfonso.
Earl Kessler’s book, Letters from Alfonso: Learning to Listen
Earl Kessler’s life has been devoted to building communities, in both the physical and the interpersonal senses. In Panama, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, that work has meant applying the lessons first learned in the Peace Corps in the Colombian village whose birth he describes in Letters from Alfonso.
Earl Kessler’s book, Letters from Alfonso: Learning to Listen
Nancy King
Nancy King is a writer and playwright whose nonfiction, plays, and novels have won numerous awards. Her novel, The Stones Speak, has been optioned for a movie.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she received a B.S. in movement and dance from the State University of New York at Cortland, an M.A. in theater from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. in Symbolic Learning from the Union Institute and University.
She has taught theater and drama, creative expression, literacy, and innovative education, and led story-making workshops in the United States, Hungary, Scandinavia, Mexico, and England, from Head Start to universities, in recreational settings, prisons, and mental hospitals. She is a professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she taught for thirty-four years.
King has published seven books of nonfiction, five novels, and many articles and essays. All of her theatrical productions, for children and adults, focus on empowerment. She lives in Santa Fe, N.M., where she finds inspiration in storytelling, weaving, writing, and hiking in the mountains.
For more information about her and her work, visit her website or contact her by email.
Nancy book, Breaking the Silence
Nancy King is a writer and playwright whose nonfiction, plays, and novels have won numerous awards. Her novel, The Stones Speak, has been optioned for a movie.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she received a B.S. in movement and dance from the State University of New York at Cortland, an M.A. in theater from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. in Symbolic Learning from the Union Institute and University.
She has taught theater and drama, creative expression, literacy, and innovative education, and led story-making workshops in the United States, Hungary, Scandinavia, Mexico, and England, from Head Start to universities, in recreational settings, prisons, and mental hospitals. She is a professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she taught for thirty-four years.
King has published seven books of nonfiction, five novels, and many articles and essays. All of her theatrical productions, for children and adults, focus on empowerment. She lives in Santa Fe, N.M., where she finds inspiration in storytelling, weaving, writing, and hiking in the mountains.
For more information about her and her work, visit her website or contact her by email.
Nancy book, Breaking the Silence
Juliette Lauber
Juliette Lauber’s gypsy lifestyle provides a vibrant foundation for the colorful and sensual reality that is Hotel Atlantis.
Born in Tucson, Arizona, she pursued a legal career in New York, and has since made a home in Paris, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Granada, Santa Fe, and numerous other fascinating ports of call. A free spirit at heart, she has often sought sanctuary on the Greek island of Santorini, where she enjoys the startling light and long swims in the silky, azure Aegean, below rocky cliffs topped by the beautiful Hotel Atlantis, which she brings to life in her debut novel.
Her interests have always been rich and diverse, blending a long and successful international legal career that led her to become European General Counsel for Time Warner with such pursuits as bicycle exploration of Paris and study of the dance and culture of flamenco, as well as passions for ancient history, champagne, and chocolate. She has been fascinated by the vivid, archetypal images of the Tarot, the ancient art of divination, and—like her alter ego, Hotel Atlantis owner Kikki Trieste—currently reads for an international clientele.
Juliette Lauber’s novel, Hotel Atlantis
Juliette Lauber’s gypsy lifestyle provides a vibrant foundation for the colorful and sensual reality that is Hotel Atlantis.
Born in Tucson, Arizona, she pursued a legal career in New York, and has since made a home in Paris, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Granada, Santa Fe, and numerous other fascinating ports of call. A free spirit at heart, she has often sought sanctuary on the Greek island of Santorini, where she enjoys the startling light and long swims in the silky, azure Aegean, below rocky cliffs topped by the beautiful Hotel Atlantis, which she brings to life in her debut novel.
Her interests have always been rich and diverse, blending a long and successful international legal career that led her to become European General Counsel for Time Warner with such pursuits as bicycle exploration of Paris and study of the dance and culture of flamenco, as well as passions for ancient history, champagne, and chocolate. She has been fascinated by the vivid, archetypal images of the Tarot, the ancient art of divination, and—like her alter ego, Hotel Atlantis owner Kikki Trieste—currently reads for an international clientele.
Juliette Lauber’s novel, Hotel Atlantis
Dr. Elaine Leeder
Elaine Leeder, MSW, MPH, PhD, is a Professor of Sociology and retired Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Previously, she was a Professor at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. She has thirty-five years of distinguished accomplishments and experience in academia and public service.
In My Life with Lifers, Dr. Leeder movingly describes her experiences as an educator working with men serving life sentences at San Quentin, and also examines the consequences of wrong-headed policies that incarcerate millions of people and then essentially forget about them.
“I was struck by the humanity of the men inside,” she says. “Each of them had a story to tell, each of them was unique, each of them had situations that brought them there that could have happened to any one of us.”
Dr. Leeder, author of four other books, is listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who of American Teachers. Her career also includes roles as a psychotherapist, consultant, and advocate for social justice. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and was a visiting scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Elaine Leeder’s book, My Life with Lifers: Lessons For A Teacher: Humanity Has No Bars, and her interview and reading
Elaine Leeder, MSW, MPH, PhD, is a Professor of Sociology and retired Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Previously, she was a Professor at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. She has thirty-five years of distinguished accomplishments and experience in academia and public service.
In My Life with Lifers, Dr. Leeder movingly describes her experiences as an educator working with men serving life sentences at San Quentin, and also examines the consequences of wrong-headed policies that incarcerate millions of people and then essentially forget about them.
“I was struck by the humanity of the men inside,” she says. “Each of them had a story to tell, each of them was unique, each of them had situations that brought them there that could have happened to any one of us.”
Dr. Leeder, author of four other books, is listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who of American Teachers. Her career also includes roles as a psychotherapist, consultant, and advocate for social justice. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and was a visiting scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Elaine Leeder’s book, My Life with Lifers: Lessons For A Teacher: Humanity Has No Bars, and her interview and reading
Richard A. Light
Richard A. Light has been teaching spiritual development in various ways for more than thirty years, and has been studying and practicing meditation for more than forty years. He also teaches backpacking, rock climbing, and other outdoor skills. He is a leader in the community of those who prepare Jewish bodies for burial, has published three books on the subject, and for eighteen years was president of a local Chevrah Kadisha he started in 1996. He is a vice president of the North American Kavod v’Nichum (Honor and Comfort), and continues to teach and raise awareness about Jewish death and burial practices at the local, state, and national levels.
Richard A. Light's book, Rites of Death: The Beauty and Power of Jewish Tradition
Richard A. Light has been teaching spiritual development in various ways for more than thirty years, and has been studying and practicing meditation for more than forty years. He also teaches backpacking, rock climbing, and other outdoor skills. He is a leader in the community of those who prepare Jewish bodies for burial, has published three books on the subject, and for eighteen years was president of a local Chevrah Kadisha he started in 1996. He is a vice president of the North American Kavod v’Nichum (Honor and Comfort), and continues to teach and raise awareness about Jewish death and burial practices at the local, state, and national levels.
Richard A. Light's book, Rites of Death: The Beauty and Power of Jewish Tradition
Andrew Leo Lovato
Andrew Leo Lovato has been a lover of the guitar and the blues since he first made their acquaintance fifty years ago. He has taught guitar classes in Santa Fe for the past thirty years, and estimates that in that time, he has taught more than a thousand adults and children to play the guitar (which comes to about 1 out of every 80 people in the city).
He is currently a professor of communication and music at Santa Fe Community College, and has developed courses including “Popular Music and Communication” and “The Cultural Roots of Creativity.” He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 2000, is the author of several books on the history and culture of New Mexico, and also was a popular music radio D.J. for ten years in the 1970s and ’80s.
Lovato was chosen as a Fulbright Scholar in 2008 and has served as Santa Fe’s official City Historian. He lives in Tesuque, New Mexico, a small village about seven miles north of Santa Fe, with his wife, Anhara, and their dog, three cats, and numerous rabbits and chickens.
Andrew's book, The Big Book of Blues Guitar
Andrew Leo Lovato has been a lover of the guitar and the blues since he first made their acquaintance fifty years ago. He has taught guitar classes in Santa Fe for the past thirty years, and estimates that in that time, he has taught more than a thousand adults and children to play the guitar (which comes to about 1 out of every 80 people in the city).
He is currently a professor of communication and music at Santa Fe Community College, and has developed courses including “Popular Music and Communication” and “The Cultural Roots of Creativity.” He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 2000, is the author of several books on the history and culture of New Mexico, and also was a popular music radio D.J. for ten years in the 1970s and ’80s.
Lovato was chosen as a Fulbright Scholar in 2008 and has served as Santa Fe’s official City Historian. He lives in Tesuque, New Mexico, a small village about seven miles north of Santa Fe, with his wife, Anhara, and their dog, three cats, and numerous rabbits and chickens.
Andrew's book, The Big Book of Blues Guitar
Shirley Melis
Shirley Melis is a longtime business writer, travel writer, and newspaper columnist who traveled the world interviewing everyone from busboys to heads of international organizations before launching a career in public relations in Washington, D.C.
In Banged-Up Heart, she has created an intimate memoir bearing eloquent witness to the kind of wild trust that can grow in the heart of an ordinary woman thrust into circumstances that few others must face.
Now retired, she lives in Galisteo, New Mexico.
Shirley Melis's book, Banged-Up Heart: Dancing with Love and Loss and her website and blog
Shirley Melis is a longtime business writer, travel writer, and newspaper columnist who traveled the world interviewing everyone from busboys to heads of international organizations before launching a career in public relations in Washington, D.C.
In Banged-Up Heart, she has created an intimate memoir bearing eloquent witness to the kind of wild trust that can grow in the heart of an ordinary woman thrust into circumstances that few others must face.
Now retired, she lives in Galisteo, New Mexico.
Shirley Melis's book, Banged-Up Heart: Dancing with Love and Loss and her website and blog
Barbara Beasley Murphy
Barbara Beasley Murphy has been an author of books for young adults and younger children for more than 30 years. She has won the Zia Award, the Christopher Award, and a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. After graduating from the University of North Carolina, she taught junior high school English in Ohio and high school drama and speech in New York before publishing her first book, Home Free, in 1970. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, PEN, the Authors Guild, and the New Mexico Women’s Forum, and was a founding member of the Children’s Writers and Artists Collaborative.
In the fall of 1982, Murphy’s book No Place to Run was banned and later moved to the restricted shelves of school libraries in Calhoun County, Alabama. The story focuses on a how a boy named Billy Jansen deals with the guilt he feels after spray painting a homeless man. Upset by its “vulgar language,” some parents and ministers in the area wanted the book removed from the shelves. In 1983, with financial support from PEN, Murphy traveled to Calhoun County to remove her book from the restricted shelves and petition the school board to reconsider its decision. However, the board maintained its position and kept the book off the regular shelves.
Previous books include Ace Hits the Big Time (a CBS School Special) and one of the American Library Association’s best 100 books for young adults in the last 25 years; and Fly Like an Eagle (ALA Pick of the Lists). She was a contributing editor to the New York Kids’ Book, (a New York Times Book of the Year, and recipient of the Christopher Award).
Barbara Beasley Murphy's book, Miguel Lost and Found: Journey to Santa Fe
Barbara Beasley Murphy has been an author of books for young adults and younger children for more than 30 years. She has won the Zia Award, the Christopher Award, and a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. After graduating from the University of North Carolina, she taught junior high school English in Ohio and high school drama and speech in New York before publishing her first book, Home Free, in 1970. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, PEN, the Authors Guild, and the New Mexico Women’s Forum, and was a founding member of the Children’s Writers and Artists Collaborative.
In the fall of 1982, Murphy’s book No Place to Run was banned and later moved to the restricted shelves of school libraries in Calhoun County, Alabama. The story focuses on a how a boy named Billy Jansen deals with the guilt he feels after spray painting a homeless man. Upset by its “vulgar language,” some parents and ministers in the area wanted the book removed from the shelves. In 1983, with financial support from PEN, Murphy traveled to Calhoun County to remove her book from the restricted shelves and petition the school board to reconsider its decision. However, the board maintained its position and kept the book off the regular shelves.
Previous books include Ace Hits the Big Time (a CBS School Special) and one of the American Library Association’s best 100 books for young adults in the last 25 years; and Fly Like an Eagle (ALA Pick of the Lists). She was a contributing editor to the New York Kids’ Book, (a New York Times Book of the Year, and recipient of the Christopher Award).
Barbara Beasley Murphy's book, Miguel Lost and Found: Journey to Santa Fe
Raymond Oliver
Raymond Oliver, a retired professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, graduated after Andover from Oberlin College, B.A. in German, then went on to the University of Wisconsin (Madison), M.A. in German, and Stanford University, where he earned a Ph.D. in English. He has published several hundred poems in journals, chapbooks, and anthologies; a reshaping in verse of Beowulf (Beowulf: a Likeness); a book of verse-translations from Greek, Latin, French, and German (To Be Plain); critical essays on poetry and verse-translation; and a new perspective in prose on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (The Year of Wonders). He lives with his wife, Mary Anne, in Berkeley, California, and Sewanee, Tennessee.
Raymond Oliver's book, Two Smart Boys: The Record of a Friendship 1953–1965
Raymond Oliver, a retired professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, graduated after Andover from Oberlin College, B.A. in German, then went on to the University of Wisconsin (Madison), M.A. in German, and Stanford University, where he earned a Ph.D. in English. He has published several hundred poems in journals, chapbooks, and anthologies; a reshaping in verse of Beowulf (Beowulf: a Likeness); a book of verse-translations from Greek, Latin, French, and German (To Be Plain); critical essays on poetry and verse-translation; and a new perspective in prose on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (The Year of Wonders). He lives with his wife, Mary Anne, in Berkeley, California, and Sewanee, Tennessee.
Raymond Oliver's book, Two Smart Boys: The Record of a Friendship 1953–1965
Rebecca Pott Fitton
Rebecca Pott Fitton explored different places and professional work. She grew up in Delaware then went to upstate New York for college. After graduating from Keuka College, then a women’s college, she returned to the University of Delaware for her Masters of Arts in International Relations. Then she headed for Michigan for careers in urban planning and healthcare administration and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Detroit. She continued her healthcare profession in Ohio and retired as President of CareView Home Health in Middletown.
As others who retire know, retirement is a busy time. She served on five non-profit boards bringing her business acumen to each. She and her husband Richard built a new home on his farm, and then he died suddenly. Recovery from his shocking death took time. Finally she realized that the time had come to remake herself. As the lyrics of the song go, “I’d built a life wrapped so tight it was strangling me.” Freedom was a spirit call from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Rebecca arrived in Santa Fe in 2008 and fell in love with the blue skies, clean mountain air, a vibrant community and the arts. Her first poem was written under a juniper tree.
Rebecca Pott Fitton's book Wave Rider: Poetic Journey from Abuse to Wholeness, and her website and blog
Rebecca Pott Fitton explored different places and professional work. She grew up in Delaware then went to upstate New York for college. After graduating from Keuka College, then a women’s college, she returned to the University of Delaware for her Masters of Arts in International Relations. Then she headed for Michigan for careers in urban planning and healthcare administration and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Detroit. She continued her healthcare profession in Ohio and retired as President of CareView Home Health in Middletown.
As others who retire know, retirement is a busy time. She served on five non-profit boards bringing her business acumen to each. She and her husband Richard built a new home on his farm, and then he died suddenly. Recovery from his shocking death took time. Finally she realized that the time had come to remake herself. As the lyrics of the song go, “I’d built a life wrapped so tight it was strangling me.” Freedom was a spirit call from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Rebecca arrived in Santa Fe in 2008 and fell in love with the blue skies, clean mountain air, a vibrant community and the arts. Her first poem was written under a juniper tree.
Rebecca Pott Fitton's book Wave Rider: Poetic Journey from Abuse to Wholeness, and her website and blog
Anna Redsand
Raised by fundamentalist missionaries on the Navajo reservation, Anna Redsand was forced to leave the faith and family that had always supported her and embark on a decades-long quest for a new spiritual home that would accept her as both a lesbian and someone committed to social justice.
She is the award-winning author of Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living, as well as a published writer of essays, stories, and newspaper columns. Her essay “Naturalization” was listed in Best American Essays 2014. She also has taught writing at the public school and university levels, and created and presented workshops on the writing of a spiritual journey. Much of her work explores the fluidity of identity, the effects of colonization, race relations, the morality of missions, and the dynamics of cultural contact. Redsand lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Anna Redsand's memoir, To Drink from the Silver Cup: From Faith Through Exile and Beyond
Raised by fundamentalist missionaries on the Navajo reservation, Anna Redsand was forced to leave the faith and family that had always supported her and embark on a decades-long quest for a new spiritual home that would accept her as both a lesbian and someone committed to social justice.
She is the award-winning author of Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living, as well as a published writer of essays, stories, and newspaper columns. Her essay “Naturalization” was listed in Best American Essays 2014. She also has taught writing at the public school and university levels, and created and presented workshops on the writing of a spiritual journey. Much of her work explores the fluidity of identity, the effects of colonization, race relations, the morality of missions, and the dynamics of cultural contact. Redsand lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Anna Redsand's memoir, To Drink from the Silver Cup: From Faith Through Exile and Beyond
Brooks Robards
Poet Brooks Robards first visited Santa Fe in 1995. Returning annually, she has drawn continuing inspiration for her writing from the New Mexico landscape. The poems in Fishing the Desert come from a collection she has been working on for eight years. Her friendship with Santa Fe-based photographer Siegfried Halus, which began in Connecticut in 1968, was renewed in 2008 when they reunited in Santa Fe. Inspired by his New Mexico photographs, she proposed a collaboration in 2012, and the two first presented their work together at Santa Fe’s former A Gallery in 2013.
Robards’ fourteen previous books include four volumes of poetry, A Magical Place, Off Season, Sea Bound, and On Island, available through Summerset Press. Her work also appears in Cleaveland House Poets—50 Years, Wednesday’s Poets—An Anthology, and Island Quintet: New Work by Five Vineyard Poets, as well as in numerous periodicals
A former Life magazine researcher/reporter, co-editor and co-publisher of the Newington (Connecticut) Town Crier, and a professor emerita of mass communication at Westfield State University, where she taught film, journalism, and women’s studies for twenty-one years, Robards also writes film and art reviews for the Martha’s Vineyard Times and feature articles for Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, in addition to her poetry.
When she is not visiting Santa Fe, she lives with her husband, writer Jim Kaplan, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and summers on Martha’s Vineyard.
Brooks Robard's book, Fishing the Desert
Poet Brooks Robards first visited Santa Fe in 1995. Returning annually, she has drawn continuing inspiration for her writing from the New Mexico landscape. The poems in Fishing the Desert come from a collection she has been working on for eight years. Her friendship with Santa Fe-based photographer Siegfried Halus, which began in Connecticut in 1968, was renewed in 2008 when they reunited in Santa Fe. Inspired by his New Mexico photographs, she proposed a collaboration in 2012, and the two first presented their work together at Santa Fe’s former A Gallery in 2013.
Robards’ fourteen previous books include four volumes of poetry, A Magical Place, Off Season, Sea Bound, and On Island, available through Summerset Press. Her work also appears in Cleaveland House Poets—50 Years, Wednesday’s Poets—An Anthology, and Island Quintet: New Work by Five Vineyard Poets, as well as in numerous periodicals
A former Life magazine researcher/reporter, co-editor and co-publisher of the Newington (Connecticut) Town Crier, and a professor emerita of mass communication at Westfield State University, where she taught film, journalism, and women’s studies for twenty-one years, Robards also writes film and art reviews for the Martha’s Vineyard Times and feature articles for Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, in addition to her poetry.
When she is not visiting Santa Fe, she lives with her husband, writer Jim Kaplan, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and summers on Martha’s Vineyard.
Brooks Robard's book, Fishing the Desert
David Myles Robinson
David Myles Robinson grew up in Pasadena, CA, where he worked as a staff reporter for a minority newspaper, The Pasadena Eagle, while attending Cal State LA. He graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in political science, and was academic law review at the University of San Francisco School of Law. It was there that Robinson met his wife, Marcia Waldorf. The two moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where Robinson practiced law and Waldorf became a Circuit Court judge. They now reside in Taos, NM, where he can pursue his passions of skiing, golf, traveling, and writing, though not necessarily in that order.
Robinson is the author of six novels: Unplayable Lie, a golf-related suspense novel; Tropical Lies, Tropical Judgments, and Tropical Doubts, all Pancho McMartin legal thrillers set in Honolulu; and two suspense novels, The Pinochet Plot and Son of Saigon.
David Myles Robinson's books: The Pinochet Plot, Son of Saigon, Tropical Doubts, Conga Line on the Amazon, and Tropical Deception
David Myles Robinson's books, The Pinochet Plot, Son of Saigon, Tropical Doubts, Conga Line on the Amazon, and Tropical Deception, and Words Kill.
David Myles Robinson grew up in Pasadena, CA, where he worked as a staff reporter for a minority newspaper, The Pasadena Eagle, while attending Cal State LA. He graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in political science, and was academic law review at the University of San Francisco School of Law. It was there that Robinson met his wife, Marcia Waldorf. The two moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where Robinson practiced law and Waldorf became a Circuit Court judge. They now reside in Taos, NM, where he can pursue his passions of skiing, golf, traveling, and writing, though not necessarily in that order.
Robinson is the author of six novels: Unplayable Lie, a golf-related suspense novel; Tropical Lies, Tropical Judgments, and Tropical Doubts, all Pancho McMartin legal thrillers set in Honolulu; and two suspense novels, The Pinochet Plot and Son of Saigon.
David Myles Robinson's books: The Pinochet Plot, Son of Saigon, Tropical Doubts, Conga Line on the Amazon, and Tropical Deception
David Myles Robinson's books, The Pinochet Plot, Son of Saigon, Tropical Doubts, Conga Line on the Amazon, and Tropical Deception, and Words Kill.
June Rosenthal
Born, raised, and married in her family home in Chappaqua, N.Y., June Rosenthal went on to build a unique life on the early values of bonding with the land and following her inquisitive spirit to become an adventuresome young woman.
At age 20, her earlier outdoor garb evolved through her job at Vogue magazine which opened the door to fashion and travel … loves that have been touchstones of her high-energy life. At 45, residential real estate beckoned, and her turquoise aura was noticed by all, leading to the outfits it adorned, whether casual or formal, that became her passion and trademark.
June Rosenthal's Book, The Turquoise Lady
Born, raised, and married in her family home in Chappaqua, N.Y., June Rosenthal went on to build a unique life on the early values of bonding with the land and following her inquisitive spirit to become an adventuresome young woman.
At age 20, her earlier outdoor garb evolved through her job at Vogue magazine which opened the door to fashion and travel … loves that have been touchstones of her high-energy life. At 45, residential real estate beckoned, and her turquoise aura was noticed by all, leading to the outfits it adorned, whether casual or formal, that became her passion and trademark.
June Rosenthal's Book, The Turquoise Lady
Eric Schum
Eric Schum was born in Illinois and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has been in the New Mexico State Police for fifteen years and currently serves as a captain. This is his first book.
Eric Schum's book, Questions & Answers: A Captain's Guide to Better Police Interviews and Interrogations
Eric Schum was born in Illinois and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has been in the New Mexico State Police for fifteen years and currently serves as a captain. This is his first book.
Eric Schum's book, Questions & Answers: A Captain's Guide to Better Police Interviews and Interrogations
Fiona Maria Simon
Fiona Maria Simon grew up in the mountains of southern New Mexico. Before starting her company, she taught Spanish and worked in media and communications. She is happiest exploring the great outdoors, creating in the kitchen, speaking other languages, and traveling the world.
Lured by the adventures of entrepreneurship, she launched an organic granola company and led it to success despite having no business background and simultaneously juggling the demands of single parenthood. Her book is a story of challenges and triumphs, lessons learned, and personal reflections along the way. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Fiona Maria Simon's book, Gambling on Granola, her website, Twitter, and Facebook page.
Fiona Maria Simon grew up in the mountains of southern New Mexico. Before starting her company, she taught Spanish and worked in media and communications. She is happiest exploring the great outdoors, creating in the kitchen, speaking other languages, and traveling the world.
Lured by the adventures of entrepreneurship, she launched an organic granola company and led it to success despite having no business background and simultaneously juggling the demands of single parenthood. Her book is a story of challenges and triumphs, lessons learned, and personal reflections along the way. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Fiona Maria Simon's book, Gambling on Granola, her website, Twitter, and Facebook page.
Rabbi Paul Steinberg
Paul Steinberg is a rabbi and educator at Congregation Kol Shofar in Tiburon, California. He speaks and consults nationally on mental health and addiction issues in the Jewish community and has written many articles, as well as five books, including Study Guide to Jewish Ethics; Recovery, the 12 Steps, and Jewish Spirituality; and Celebrating the Jewish Year, which won the National Jewish Book Award.
Rabbi Paul Steinberg's book, Spiritual Growth: A Contemporary Jewish Approach
Paul Steinberg is a rabbi and educator at Congregation Kol Shofar in Tiburon, California. He speaks and consults nationally on mental health and addiction issues in the Jewish community and has written many articles, as well as five books, including Study Guide to Jewish Ethics; Recovery, the 12 Steps, and Jewish Spirituality; and Celebrating the Jewish Year, which won the National Jewish Book Award.
Rabbi Paul Steinberg's book, Spiritual Growth: A Contemporary Jewish Approach
Michael Sullivan
Born and raised in northwestern Illinois, Michael Sullivan studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado following a tour of duty in Vietnam. In 1972, he got a pilot’s license and traveled south, meeting Father Bill Woods in Guatemala, flying for the land reform project that was reshaping the Ixcan region, and meeting the people he later interviewed for this book.
Sometimes it’s said in the foreign service that one’s first overseas posting is the one that stays in the heart. For Sullivan, that has been true of the Ixcan; he’s been back time and time again. Though he has been called a pilot-anthropologist, he says instead that, “I was simply a good listener, interacting with the people of Ixcan who had become trusted friends over a period of forty years.”
Early in his flying days, he sought to become an airline pilot, and asked a friend working in the industry for a reference. The friend refused, saying he saw someone who would be driven crazy by the monotony of flying the same route over and over. Instead, Sullivan embraced his love of adventure and began exploring the world. He drove a small Honda motorcycle down to Guatemala, where he first began work as a bush pilot.
He has since taken his love of flying around the world, working throughout Central America, Alaska, Indonesia, and Africa—including many years with Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Cousteau Society.
He and his equally adventurous—and eternally patient—wife, Tina, have passed on their love of adventure and appreciation of different cultures to their five children. His work as a pilot, in addition to being something he loves, has also enabled him to bring positive change to the world as a humanitarian and environmentalist. He has quietly worked as a documentary photographer, videographer, and photojournalist throughout his life to protect and support the communities and environment of the places he’s come to love.
He is the author, with photojournalist Tony O’Brien, of Afghan Dreams, a book of haunting images and interviews with Afghan children talking about their lives, fears, and dreams.
Sullivan lives now in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Michael Sullivan's book, Not Our Day to Die: Testimony from the Guatemalan Jungle, and facebook page
Born and raised in northwestern Illinois, Michael Sullivan studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado following a tour of duty in Vietnam. In 1972, he got a pilot’s license and traveled south, meeting Father Bill Woods in Guatemala, flying for the land reform project that was reshaping the Ixcan region, and meeting the people he later interviewed for this book.
Sometimes it’s said in the foreign service that one’s first overseas posting is the one that stays in the heart. For Sullivan, that has been true of the Ixcan; he’s been back time and time again. Though he has been called a pilot-anthropologist, he says instead that, “I was simply a good listener, interacting with the people of Ixcan who had become trusted friends over a period of forty years.”
Early in his flying days, he sought to become an airline pilot, and asked a friend working in the industry for a reference. The friend refused, saying he saw someone who would be driven crazy by the monotony of flying the same route over and over. Instead, Sullivan embraced his love of adventure and began exploring the world. He drove a small Honda motorcycle down to Guatemala, where he first began work as a bush pilot.
He has since taken his love of flying around the world, working throughout Central America, Alaska, Indonesia, and Africa—including many years with Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Cousteau Society.
He and his equally adventurous—and eternally patient—wife, Tina, have passed on their love of adventure and appreciation of different cultures to their five children. His work as a pilot, in addition to being something he loves, has also enabled him to bring positive change to the world as a humanitarian and environmentalist. He has quietly worked as a documentary photographer, videographer, and photojournalist throughout his life to protect and support the communities and environment of the places he’s come to love.
He is the author, with photojournalist Tony O’Brien, of Afghan Dreams, a book of haunting images and interviews with Afghan children talking about their lives, fears, and dreams.
Sullivan lives now in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Michael Sullivan's book, Not Our Day to Die: Testimony from the Guatemalan Jungle, and facebook page
Claudette Sutton
Claudette Sutton has been best known since 1995 as the editor and publisher of Tumbleweeds, Santa Fe’s quarterly newspaper for families. In addition, she has complemented this work with roles as a writing teacher, consultant, and advocate for the needs of children.
Claudette Sutton’s book, Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home, her blog, ClaudetteSutton.com, and her book trailer, interview and readings
Claudette Sutton has been best known since 1995 as the editor and publisher of Tumbleweeds, Santa Fe’s quarterly newspaper for families. In addition, she has complemented this work with roles as a writing teacher, consultant, and advocate for the needs of children.
Claudette Sutton’s book, Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home, her blog, ClaudetteSutton.com, and her book trailer, interview and readings
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Marina Weber
Marina Weber has been a passionate activist since she was six. Marina plays herself in the story. She believes in righting wrongs and in helping others to be heard, seen, and assisted. She is also fearless and single-minded when it comes to completing her quest, and was instrumental in establishing The Global Warming Express organization.
Marina Weber's book, The Global Warming Express, the nonprofit furthering the book's message, and an interview with Marina.
Marina Weber has been a passionate activist since she was six. Marina plays herself in the story. She believes in righting wrongs and in helping others to be heard, seen, and assisted. She is also fearless and single-minded when it comes to completing her quest, and was instrumental in establishing The Global Warming Express organization.
Marina Weber's book, The Global Warming Express, the nonprofit furthering the book's message, and an interview with Marina.
Catherine Weser
Catherine Weser is an artist and conscious channel. After 10 years of regular meditation, a non-physical teacher appeared to her: Dwahl Khul, aka DK, and has remained with her for 30 years. She lives in Santa Fe.
Catherine Weser's book, Diving Deep: Into One Life Awareness
Catherine Weser is an artist and conscious channel. After 10 years of regular meditation, a non-physical teacher appeared to her: Dwahl Khul, aka DK, and has remained with her for 30 years. She lives in Santa Fe.
Catherine Weser's book, Diving Deep: Into One Life Awareness
Joanna Whysner
Illustrator Joanna Whysner has been a serious artist since she was very young, and has won many prizes for her art. In the story, Joanna creates her world on paper, in line and color and form. Her sense of mischief and humor help her turn every drawing into a commentary.
Joanna Whysner's book, The Global Warming Express, and the nonprofit furthering the book's message
Illustrator Joanna Whysner has been a serious artist since she was very young, and has won many prizes for her art. In the story, Joanna creates her world on paper, in line and color and form. Her sense of mischief and humor help her turn every drawing into a commentary.
Joanna Whysner's book, The Global Warming Express, and the nonprofit furthering the book's message
Donald Willerton
Don Willerton was raised in a small oil boomtown in the Texas Panhandle, becoming familiar through family vacations with the northern New Mexico area where he now makes his home.
After earning a degree in physics from Midwestern State University in Texas and a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico, he worked for Los Alamos National Laboratory for almost three decades.
During his career there, Willerton was a supercomputer programmer for a number of years and a manager after that for “way too long,” and also worked on information policy and cyber-security.
He finds focusing on only one thing very difficult among such varied interests as home building, climbing Colorado’s tallest peaks, and rafting the rivers of the Southwest (including the Colorado through Grand Canyon). Willerton also has owned a handyman business for a number of years, rebuilt old cars, and made furniture in his woodshop.
He is a wanderer in both mind and body, fascinated with history and its landscape, varied peoples and their cultures, good mysteries, secrets, and seeking out treasure. Most of all, he loves the outdoors and the places he finds in the Southwest where spirits live and ghosts dance. Weaving it all together to share with readers has been the driving force of Willerton’s writing over the past twenty years.
The Mogi Franklin Mysteries is a nine-book series of Southwest-based mysteries for middle-grade boys and girls.
The Mogi Franklin Mysteries:
Ghosts of the San Juan, book 1
The Lost Children, book 2
The Secret of La Rosa, book 3
The Hidden River, book 4
The Lake of Fire, book 5
Outlaw, book 6
The Lady in White, book 7
The Captain's Chest, book 8
River of Gold, book 9
War Train, book 10
Adult fiction:
Teddy’s War
The King of Trash
Connect with Don via Goodreads and his blog.
Listen to a radio interview with Don.
Don Willerton was raised in a small oil boomtown in the Texas Panhandle, becoming familiar through family vacations with the northern New Mexico area where he now makes his home.
After earning a degree in physics from Midwestern State University in Texas and a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico, he worked for Los Alamos National Laboratory for almost three decades.
During his career there, Willerton was a supercomputer programmer for a number of years and a manager after that for “way too long,” and also worked on information policy and cyber-security.
He finds focusing on only one thing very difficult among such varied interests as home building, climbing Colorado’s tallest peaks, and rafting the rivers of the Southwest (including the Colorado through Grand Canyon). Willerton also has owned a handyman business for a number of years, rebuilt old cars, and made furniture in his woodshop.
He is a wanderer in both mind and body, fascinated with history and its landscape, varied peoples and their cultures, good mysteries, secrets, and seeking out treasure. Most of all, he loves the outdoors and the places he finds in the Southwest where spirits live and ghosts dance. Weaving it all together to share with readers has been the driving force of Willerton’s writing over the past twenty years.
The Mogi Franklin Mysteries is a nine-book series of Southwest-based mysteries for middle-grade boys and girls.
The Mogi Franklin Mysteries:
Ghosts of the San Juan, book 1
The Lost Children, book 2
The Secret of La Rosa, book 3
The Hidden River, book 4
The Lake of Fire, book 5
Outlaw, book 6
The Lady in White, book 7
The Captain's Chest, book 8
River of Gold, book 9
War Train, book 10
Adult fiction:
Teddy’s War
The King of Trash
Connect with Don via Goodreads and his blog.
Listen to a radio interview with Don.
Samuel Young
Samuel Young has been a writer, editor, publisher, photographer, and photography editor, principally for magazines. His work has appeared in Holiday, Travel Holiday, Town & Country and Connoisseur, among other publications, on subjects ranging from food and travel to art, architecture, music, and the paranormal. The latter interest resulted in Psychic Children, a seminal book in the field, first published in 1977. A Harvard graduate, Young lived in New York, Umbria, Austin, and Philadelphia before moving to Albuquerque, where he resides with his wife, artist and designer Risa Benson. He remains an avid cook, thanks in large measure to the tutelage of Chef Fritz Blank. In recent years, he and Benson have taken up Argentine tango, a pursuit Young finds nearly as complex, inexhaustible, and rewarding as the world of gastronomy.
Samuel Young's book, Chef Fritz and His City: My Education in the Master's Kitchen, and his interview and readings
Samuel Young has been a writer, editor, publisher, photographer, and photography editor, principally for magazines. His work has appeared in Holiday, Travel Holiday, Town & Country and Connoisseur, among other publications, on subjects ranging from food and travel to art, architecture, music, and the paranormal. The latter interest resulted in Psychic Children, a seminal book in the field, first published in 1977. A Harvard graduate, Young lived in New York, Umbria, Austin, and Philadelphia before moving to Albuquerque, where he resides with his wife, artist and designer Risa Benson. He remains an avid cook, thanks in large measure to the tutelage of Chef Fritz Blank. In recent years, he and Benson have taken up Argentine tango, a pursuit Young finds nearly as complex, inexhaustible, and rewarding as the world of gastronomy.
Samuel Young's book, Chef Fritz and His City: My Education in the Master's Kitchen, and his interview and readings