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ALGERNON D'AMMASSA Writers' Roundtable Killing Buddha, a play he wrote about criminal and social justice and which he has performed around the country with Las Cruces musician Randy Granger, has taken prizes at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival and the San Diego International Fringe Festival. D'Ammassa's blog can be found here. |
KATE NELSON Kansas native Kate Nelson moved west in 1989 and planted roots in Placitas, New Mexico. An award-winning reporter and columnist, she worked at the Kansas City Star and Albuquerque Tribune before leading PR and marketing at the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors. Last year, she became managing editor at New Mexico Magazine, for which she has already won a silver award as writer of the year from the International Regional Magazines Association. An active freelancer, she also wrote the biography Helen Hardin: A Straight Line Curved |
M. JOHN FAYHEE M. John Fayhee is the author of 12 books and has twice been a finalist in the Colorado Book Awards. He edited the Mountain Gazette for 13 years, was a contributing editor at Backpacker Magazine for 10 years. He worked in the newspaper business for 15 years. His books include The Colorado Mountain Companion: A potpourri of useful miscellany from the highest parts of the highest state (West Winds Press, The Pruett Series: 2012), Smoke Signals: Wayward Journeys through the Old Heart of the New West (Raven's Eye Press: 2012), Bottoms Up: M. John Fayhee's Greatest Hits from the Mountain Gazette (Round Mountain Publishing: 2010) and Along the Colorado Trail (Westcliffe: 1992),-the first of three long-backpacking-trip, trail-related coffee-table/nature books he did with photographer John Fielder. For more, visit mjohnfayhee.com |
MEGAN KIMBLE Megan Kimble is the editor of Edible Baja Arizona, a local food magazine serving Tucson and the borderlands, and the author of Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food (William Morrow 2015). Megan has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Orion Magazine, and High Country News. Her articles and essays have been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2015 (Da Capo Press), Coming of Age at the End of Nature (Trinity University Press 2016), and How We Speak to One Another (Coffee House Press 2017). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing nonfiction from the University of Arizona, and teaches as an adjunct lecturer in the school of journalism. For more, visit |
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