Contributor Bios
for the 2006 Issue
Joseph Somoza taught English at NMSU
22 years and served as poetry editor for Puerto del Sol. He took early
retirement 10 years ago to have more time to write. His most recent book
is CITYZEN (La Alameda Press). He has a chapbook, "Back Talk", coming from
Coyote Press.
Plato's Cave Debbi
Brody co-owns and
operates Canyon Road Contemporary Art, in Santa Fe, NM. She publishes
frequently in Central Avenue Poetry. Her work has appeared in the
Broomweed Journal, Poetica and other national literary magazines. Her
book, Portraits in Poetry (Village Books Press, 2006), is available
through artqueen58@aol.com
If I Had Some Spare Time
R.E.E. Evans, originally from Albuquerque,
is a consulting engineer living in Santa Fe. He is the author of technical
articles on construction and a few poems.
Touch Maria
Martinez Felt is a native New Mexican who can trace her roots
back to the 16th century when her first ancestor (Martin-Serrano) who came
here as a soldier with Don Juan de Onate in 1598. Her great, great, great
grandfather, Don Bernardo Abeyta, was the founder of El Santuario de
Chimayo. In addition to writing and painting as her hobbies, Maria also is
a Docent at the State History Museum (The Palace of the Governors) and
also conducts Historic Walking Tours.
La Despedida Originally from New Jersey, James
Bradley
came to Santa Fe in 1991 having been accepted as a student at St. John’s
College. He graduated in 1997, worked for several Temp agencies for about
eight months, and then found a steady job as a secretary for Arts &
Sciences (now Liberal & Fine Arts) at Santa Fe Community College. He
enjoys writing, reading, good movies, and baseball.
A New Mexico Halloween Story
Mario A Sisneros: Born and raised in Santa
Fe NM. Likes gaming, and TV.
Roberta Karr Erin
Pulsipher
lives in Santa Fe. She sometimes wins awards for her writing.
The Beatnik Piper of Soho
Frances Hunter: I was born in New York
City, grew up in many parts of the world, and lived most recently in
England, Zambia, South Africa and Texas. Since 1997 I have put down roots
in Santa Fe, where I rejoice in the company of family and friends. Poems
of mine have appeared in journals in South Africa and America, and I have
a published collection, "A Maverick Elation."
Mrs. Lot
Newlyn Allison lives in Santa Fe with her husband and children.
This poem was written for her youngest child.
Resurrection Lily
Susan Hazen-Hammond is the author of nine nonfiction books. She
writes in English and Spanish. Her poems have appeared in Confrontation,
Porcupine, Kalliope, La Herencia del Norte, RiverSedge, Slant, and other
publications. Awards include a South Carolina Book Award and a Benjamin
Franklin Award.
Turning Susan Schaefer
McDevitt
is a New Mexico native. She resides in Santa Fe where she is by day an
attorney practicing Family Law and by night a wordsmith practicing the
alchemy of word to poem.
What Did You Think Love Would Be Like? Enid
Howarth:
I have lived in Albuquerque since 1959. I am retired from UNM, enjoy
having a counseling practice, writing, spending time with folks I love,
playing. This is a very happy time in my life.
Ordinary Time
Barbara Robidoux lives in the south side of Santa Fe, New
Mexico and works as a counselor at Santa Fe Indian School. Her poetry has
appeared in numerous journals and anthologies nationwide. She has a book
of poems entitled "Waiting for Rain" to be published soon by Tres Chicas
Press.
Planting Tom
Stevens is a retired elementary teacher.
Taking classes in fine arts and creative writing. Inspired by Miriam Sagan.
Evil Kim
Knowles: I have made a
little money with writing and have published some but not much of either.
Every writer would like to publish a lot of popular works but the real
truth is that fiction is a socially acceptable excuse to tell colossal
lies, punish the evil doers, reward the virtuous, reveal the most intimate
secrets of the unsuspecting and espouse all manner of radical ideas, all
without repercussions. What could be more fun than that?
Completed Lives
Martha Yates, from Vallecitos, New Mexico,
has a doctorate in ancient Greek lyric poetry. She is a winner of the
Barbara Deming Memorial Poetry Award, the Santa Fe Recursos Discovery
Competition, and is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her
poems and essays have been published nationally and locally. For many
years she has been an archaeologist and firefighter; public radio station
KRZA in Alamosa, Colorado aired an interview with Martha entitled:
“Archaeologist, Firefighter and Poet.” Her work has been described as
“going deep into the earth, then suddenly upward into the dust of the
expanding universe, all going at once as if there were no time or space.”
Horse
Stephanie Alm: I have been student at
SFCC for the past two years. I often write poetry, as I find it to be a
very therapeutic device. It is a tremendous feat when a person can sit
down and vent all feelings of anger and frustration onto a piece of paper
and end up with something beautiful."
Why Do We Fight? Brock
Dethier teaches at Utah State University. His most recent book
is First Time Up: An Insider's Guide for New Composition Teachers. His
poems have appeared in more than twenty publications.
Trying Not To Limp
William Houston: I began writing poetry
under the inspiring tutelage of Jay Udall, Miriam Sagan and Joan Logghe in
Santa Fe about ten years ago, with gratifying increase of knowledge about
who I am. I am eighty years old and not ready to stop learning.
My Friends Ten
years ago, Ken McPherson left his job
as a technical writer, and moved from Dallas to Santa Fe in search of
calmness, harmony and a little less concrete. He has written fiction for
his own pleasure for the past 20 years off and on, and hopes one day to
share his work. He made his own way to Santa Fe without having to be
picked up on the highway, and found "The One" as soon as he arrived.
Late Night
Trent Zelazny has published more than 30
short stories in magazines and anthologies in four countries covering the
horror, suspense, humor, erotica and "experimental" genres. He was born
and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and doesn’t quite know how he feels
about that.
How to Write a Short Story For Publication in
The New Yorker, by Everette Sage Brown Dallas
Huth's poetry has
appeared in The Manzanita Quarterly and Santa Fe Literary Review. She was
an editor for the first edition of the Santa Fe Literary Review. She finds
inspiration in the kindergarten class that she volunteers for, in birding
and basket making, and in her writing group in Santa Fe.
Olivia
Lonnie Howard has lived in Santa Fe for 25
years and is the director of the Scherer Institute of Natural Healing. In
2000 she fell in love with a poet and discovered the poet within. Her work
has appeared in Manzanita Quarterly, Edgz, Spillway Review, Passager and
the New Mexican.
Late August Ursula
Moeller now
calls Santa Fe her home after 40 years in Syracuse, New York. She enjoys
writing poetry and journaling about both places and photographing each, as
well as the rest of the world. Santa Fe is definitely a place to spread
new wings, so she's flying.
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