Ev Akam

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Charlotte Babcock

Longtime Casper resident Charlotte Babcock is the author of The St. Patrick's Story and Shot Down: Capital Crimes of Casper (High Plains Press, 2000), which won the Wyoming State Historical Society's history book of the year award. She was recognized in 2001 by the City of Casper and the American Association of University Women as a renowned author, freelance writer and editor. [more info]

Susanne Bloomfield

Susanne George Bloomfield's ten books include are three biographies published by the University of Nebraska Press: Impertinences: Selected Editorials of Elia W. Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age (2005); Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works (1997); and The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1993). Just last year, Nebraska also published Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers, co-edited with graduate student Eric Reed, an anthology of selections from children's magazines at the turn of the last century. [more info]

C.J. Box

C. J. Box is the author of nine novels including the award-winning Joe Pickett series. He’s the winner of the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 [more info]

Mallory Burton

Mallory Burton lives in British Columbia, Canada, where she works as the Provincial Coordinator for the Universal Design for Learning Project. She has written for magazines such as Fly Fishing, Fly Rod & Reel, and Gray's Sporting Journal and published two books, Reading the Water and Green River Virgins and Other Passionate Anglers. Her other interests include fossil-hunting, teaching ballroom dancing, and spoiling her baby granddaughter. [more info]

John Clayton

John Clayton's new book, The Cowboy Girl, is a biography of the Montana/Wyoming novelist, journalist, and homesteader Caroline Lockhart. "Expertly researched and wonderfully written," writes Mark Spragg, author of Where Rivers Change Direction, "this biography of Lockhart expands the genre to a meditation on frontier, feminism, and the vagaries of literary hubris. Clayton has rendered a riveting portrait of a woman both troubled and brave, a character caught up in the fiction of her own life." The book relies on archival materials not available to Lockhart's previous biographers. [more info]

Sarah Crichton

Sarah Crichton is Vice President and Publisher of Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux which began publishing titles in March 2006. An eclectic mix of smart and vervy books, fiction and nonfiction both, the imprint has already had marked success with Ishmael Beah's bestselling memoir, A LONG WAY GONE: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, which reached Number One on the New York Times Bestseller list, and also made bookselling history when it was heavily promoted by Starbucks in stores around the U.S. and U.K. As of April 2008, A LONG WAY GONE has been sold to 32 countries. [more info]

Nancy Curtis

Nancy Curtis is the publisher and primary editor of High Plains Press, a micro-publishing company specializing in Western Americana and poetry of the American West, headquartered on the family cattle ranch near Glendo. The press has published over 50 books since 1984 which have won four Western Heritage Awards for outstanding poetry from the National Cowboy Museum, two Willa Finalist Awards, three Spur Finalist Awards and many historical association awards. [more info]

John Davis

John Davis is author of A Vast Amount of Trouble and Goodbye, Judge Lynch (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 and 2005), about the cattle-sheep troubles and vigilante killings in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin early in the 20th century. A new book about the Johnson County War is due out soon from the same publisher. [more info]

Katie Dublinski

Katie Dublinski serves as editorial director for Graywolf Press, an independent literary press based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She acquires manuscripts for Graywolf's fiction and nonfiction lists. Authors she has worked with include Alyson Hagy, William Kittredge, Ron Carlson, Ander Monson, and Robert Boswell. In addition, she oversees the book production process and sells subsidiary rights. She has been with Graywolf since 1997. [more info]

Gary Ferguson

Formerly an interpretive naturalist for the U.S. Forest Service, Gary Ferguson has been a freelance writer for the past twenty years. He has written articles for publications including Vanity Fair, Outside, Sierra, Modern Maturity, Field & Stream, Big Sky Journal, E, Men's Journal, the Los Angeles Times and publications of New York's Children's Television Workshop. He is also a regular contributor to the book division of National Geographic. Having authored fifteen books on nature and science, his goal as a writer is to chronicle the impact of the natural world on human lives. Gary's award winning May 2003 National Geographic title, Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone profiles critical environmental issues in the most remote place in the lower 48. It won both the 2004 Pacific Northwest and 2004 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Awards. In 2004 W.W. Norton released his critically acclaimed title, The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind. In April 2005 he co-authored Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone with Doug Smith. [more info]

Alexandra Fuller

Alexandra Fuller's first book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Random House, 2001), was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian's First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Her 2004 Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (Penguin Press) won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage. Her latest book is The Legend of Colton H Bryant (Penguin Press, May, 2008). She has also written for The New Yorker and National Geographic. [more info]

Jack Gantos

Jack Gantos is the author of dozens of books for children, including the Rotten Ralph Rotten Readers, the Joey Pizga books and the Jack Henry books, and books for young adults, including Hole in My Life, (Farrar Straus, 2002), a memoir of crime, prison, and his emergence as a writer. For more on his books, see his website at http://www.jackgantos.com/index.html. [more info]

John Gierach

John Gierach is a freelance writer living in northern Colorado. He is the author of eighteen books including Trout Bum, Sex, Death and Flyfishing, Another Lousy Day in Paradise and Standing in a River Waving a Stick - some of which have also been published in Norway, Japan and France - as well as numerous magazine articles, essays and columns. He is a regular columnist for Fly Rod & Reel and Redstone Review and has been the outdoor correspondent for the Longmont Daily Times-Call newspaper in Longmont, Colorado for the last twenty years. [more info]

Alyson Hagy

Alyson Hagy was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She is the author of the novels Snow, Ashes, (Graywolf, 2007) and Keeneland (Simon and Schuster, 2000), and three books of short stories including Graveyard of the Atlantic, (Graywolf, 2000). She lives in Laramie and teaches in the University of Wyoming's Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing. [more info]

Twyla Hansen

Poet TWYLA HANSEN was raised in northeast Nebraska on land her grandparents farmed in the late 1800s as immigrants from Denmark. Her latest book, Prairie Suite: A Celebration (Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, 2006) is a poem-drawing collaboration with ornithologist Paul Johnsgard. Her book Potato Soup (Backwaters Press, 2003), won the 2004 Nebraska Book Awards competition for poetry. Her writing has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Ascent, Organization & Environment, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), Poets Against the War (Nation Books, 2003), and A Contemporary Reader for Creative Writing (Harcourt Brace, 1994). Her poems were nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2001 and 2003. Her previous poetry books are Sanctuary Near Salt Creek (Lone Willow Press, 2001), In Our Very Bones (A Slow Tempo Press, 1997), and How to Live in the Heartland (Flatwater Editions, 1992). Twyla earned her BS and MA from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln. She is a creative writing presenter through the Nebraska Humanities Council speakers bureau, and lives in Lincoln, where her wooded acre is maintained as an urban wildlife habitat and in 1994 was recognized by the Mayor’s Landscape Conservation Award. [more info]

Chad Hanson

Chad Hanson lives in Casper, Wyoming, with his wife Lynn and their two cats Sherpa and Scout. At various times he's worked as a roofer, desk clerk, bicycle mechanic and roller skating rink disk jockey. Today he teaches sociology at Casper College. His short stories, essays and poems have appeared in Third Coast, Pilgrimage, Big Sky Journal, Mountain Gazette, South Dakota Review, Yale Angler's Journal, and North Dakota Quarterly. A collection of his stories, Swimming with Trout, is currently available from the University of New Mexico Press. In addition to writing and publishing literature, Hanson's work also appears in social science periodicals such as College Teaching, Thought & Action, Teaching Sociology, The Teaching Professor, The Educational Forum, The National Teaching and Learning Forum, and The Journal of Higher Education, among others. [more info]

H.L. Hix

H. L. Hix's most recent poetry book, God Bless, is a "political/poetic discourse" chronicling the Bush administration through sonnets and sestinas and villanelles composed of quotations from Bush speeches, intermingled with poems paraphrasing arguments from bin Laden speeches, and complemented by interviews with scholars, journalists, and poets. His previous collection, Chromatic, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Previous awards include the T. S. Eliot Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has collaborated on translations of Estonian and Lithuanian poetry, and written books of criticism including As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry and Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes: Legacies of Postmodern Theory. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas. After twenty years teaching at private art colleges (Kansas City Art Institute and Cleveland Institute of Art), he now teaches in the creative writing Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Wyoming. [more info]

Mark Junge

Mark Junge worked for nearly a quarter of a century in the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office before retiring as deputy state historic preservation officer and state historian in 1995. He edited the state's quarterly history magazine, Wyoming Annals, for three years. [more info]

Laurie Kutchins

Laurie Kutchins is the author of three books of poems: Slope of the Child Everlasting (BOA Editions Ltd., 2007), The Night Path (BOA Editions) and Between Towns (Texas Tech University Press). The Night Path received the Isabella Gardner Award and was a Pulitzer nomination for Poetry in 1997. Her poems have appeared widely in anthologies and periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Orion, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, West Branch and other places. Her nonfiction has been published in The Georgia Review, LIT, Urthona and in anthologies A Place on Earth: Nature Writing from Australia and North America; Woven on the Wind; Let There Be Night, and Teens: A Literary Anthology. Kutchins teaches creative writing at James Madison University in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and spends her summers along the Wyoming-Idaho border, near an area of the country where she grew up and to which she keeps her roots. She is also a regular faculty member for the Taos Summer Writers Conference through the University of New Mexico, and she offers private workshops that nurture interconnections among creativity and healing. [more info]

Ted Leeson

Ted Leeson has been a freelance writer for over 20 years and is currently a contributing editor to Fly Rod & Reel and Field & Stream magazines. He is the author of two books of essays, The Habit of Rivers and Jerusalem Creek and, with photographer Jim Schollmeyer, co-author of six books on fly tying. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon where he has taught English at Oregon State University for the past 25 years. [more info]

Beth Loffreda

Beth Loffreda teaches workshops in non-fiction as well as courses in recent American and African-American literature at the University of Wyoming. She has written about Wyoming in Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder (Columbia University Press, 2000). Currently she's working on essays about a variety of American eccentrics. She grew up in Audubon, Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Virginia (BA) and Rutgers (PhD in English). Since arriving at UW in 1998, she has won the Ellbogen Meritorious Teaching award, the Jason Thompson Commitment to Diversity award, and Top Ten Teacher, among other honors. She's usually outside. [more info]

RoseMarie London

RoseMarie London is the author of short stories published in Hot Metal Bridge, Small Spiral Notebook, and Del Sol Review among others. Some have been collected in a small volume called The Search for an Inappropriate Man. RoseMarie gives talks to aspiring writers about her experiences working in publishing and as a bookseller and writer and presented her workshop The Real Deal: What Actually Happens to your Ms. from Acquisition to the Bookseller's Shelves at the 2006 and 2007 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers conference. RoseMarie is the Book Division Manager at the University Bookstore at the University of Wyoming, and is at work on a novel. [more info]

Mike McClure

Lander photographer Mike McClure grew up in Wyoming, earned a journalism degree from Wayne State University, and worked as a photographer for United Press International and the Detroit Free Press before returning to the state in 1971. He has studied photography with Ansel Adams, Jerry Uelsmann, John Sexton and Robert Gilka. In 1980, he was awarded a grant from the Wyoming Council for the Humanities and the Union Pacific Railroad for "Wyoming Tradition and Transition," a 74-photograph exhibit still housed at the Wyoming State Museum and considered a documentary resource. [more info]

John McDermott

Longtime Indian wars historian John D. McDermott lives and writes in Rapid City, South Dakota. His books include the excellent Frontier Crossroads: The History of Fort Caspar and the Upper Platte Crossing, City of Casper, 1997, and of twelve other books, including A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West, (U. of Nebraska Press, 1989) Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865, (Stackpole Books, 2003), The Indian War of 1864 (U. of Nebraska Press, 1864), Forlorn Hope: The Nez Perce Victory at White Bird Canyon (Caxton Press, 2003), and Dangerous Duty: A History of Frontier Forts in Fremont County, (Fremont County Historic Preservation Committee, 2003). He has also written numerous articles in scholarly journals, and has consulted on several documentaries on the American West, including ones by Kenny Rogers for the History Channel and Ken Burns for PBS. [more info]

Bill Mixer

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John Nesbitt

John D. Nesbitt teaches English and Spanish at Eastern Wyoming College. He has had more than twenty books published, including short story collections, contemporary novels, and traditional westerns. John has won many awards for his work, including two Wyoming Arts Council literary fellowships (one for fiction, one for non- fiction), and a Western Writers of America Spur finalist award for his crossover western-mystery Raven Springs. His newest book is a contemporary mystery entitled Poacher's Moon. [more info]

Laura Pritchett

Laura Pritchett is the author of the novel Sky Bridge (Milkweed Editions, 2005), which won the WILLA Fiction Award; and the short story collection Hell's Bottom, Colorado (Milkweed Editions, 2001), which won the 2001 Milkweed National Fiction Prize 2002 PEN USA Award for Fiction. [more info]

Mary Kay Quinlan

Lincoln native Mary Kay Quinlan is a 1972 graduate of the UNL J-School, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board and was active in various other campus organizations. She earned a master's degree in journalism at the University of Maryland in 1973 and spent a year as a suburban schools reporter at the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and Chronicle. In November 1974 she went to work for the Omaha World-Herald Washington Bureau, where she worked for more than 10 years. From 1985 to 1989 she was a regional correspondent for Gannett News Service in Washington, writing for Midwestern newspapers. In 1986, Quinlan served as president of the National Press Club and was elected to the Gridiron Club of Washington. [more info]

Tom Rea

Tom Rea grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., and has lived in Wyoming for 35 years. His books include Devil's Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story (Oklahoma, 2006), winner of the 2006-07 nonfiction book award from the Wyoming State Historical Society, and Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur, (Pittsburgh, 2001, paperback 2004) winner of a Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. He lives with his family in Casper. Rea is director of the Equality State Book Festival and will moderate the Wyoming History panel at 2:45 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at Fort Caspar. [more info]

David Romtvedt

David Romtvedt teaches in the MFA program for writers at the University of Wyoming and serves as the state's poet laureate. His books include: Moon; Free and Compulsory for All; How Many Horses; Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch; A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know; Crossing Wyoming; and Some Church. [more info]

Robert Roripaugh

Robert Roripaugh was appointed by Gov. Jim Geringer to serve as Wyoming's Poet Laureate from 1995 through 2002. A writer of fiction as well as poetry, he ranched with his parents along the Wind River Mountains near Lander and completed B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Wyoming in the 1950s. After Army service in Japan and further graduate work, he returned to Laramie where he taught creative writing and western American literature for 35 years. During that time he directed some forty master's degree thesis projects for students in the Department of English or American Studies. [more info]

George Vlastos

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Tina Welling

Tina Welling is the author of the novel Crybaby Ranch, published this year by NAL/Penguin. She has lived in Wyoming 30 years and resides in Jackson. For many years she has been on the faculty of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference, where she gives talks and workshops. She also facilitates the Writers in the Park, writing workshops held during the summer months in Grand Teton National Park. Her short fiction has won the Doubleday Award, plus two national awards and writer's residencies. Tina has been published in Body & Soul, The Writer and other journals. Her next novel Fairy Tale Blues will be published by NAL/Penguin in March 2009. [more info]

Lawrence Woods

Lawrence M. Woods, of Worland, Wyoming has written widely on Wyoming's past. His books include Alex Swan and the Swan Companies (Arthur H. Clark, 2006); Edward Shelley's Journal, 1856-61: A Victorian Remittance Man (2005); Asa Shinn Mercer: Western Promoter and Newspaperman, 1839-1917 (Arthur H. Clark, 2003); John Clay Jr: Commission Man, Banker and Rancher (Arthur H. Clark, 2001); Wyoming's Big Horn Basin to 1901: a Late Frontier (Arthur H. Clark, 1997); Wyoming Biographies (High Plains Pub. Co., 1991); British Gentlemen in the Wild West: the Era of the Intensely English Cowboy (Free Press, 1989); Moreton Frewen's Western Adventures, (Roberts Rinehart, 1986); Sometimes the Books Froze: Wyoming's Economy and its Banks (Colorado Associated University Press, 1986); and The Wyoming Country Before Statehood: Four Hundred Years Under Six Flags, (Worland Press, 1971). [more info]