Meet The Authors

Everett Akam

Casper College History Professor Everett Akam directs the college's Veritas Honors Institute and teaches U.S. History, Western Civilization, Wyoming History, and American and Wyoming Government at the college. He holds a Ph. D. from the University of Rochester, and is the author of Transnational America:… [more info]



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… [more info]



Susanne Bloomfield

Susanne George Bloomfield's ten books include 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… [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 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, and an Edgar Award and L.A. Times Book Prize finalist. Box was named 2007 Writer of the Year… [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… [more info]



Serle Chapman

Author of seven books, accomplished photographer, and wide-ranging tour guide to the Indian country of the High Plains, Serle Chapman brings a unique perspective to the people of heart of North America, past and present. His forebears include the frontier scout Amos Chapman, and Chapman's Cheyenne wife… [more info]



Annette Chaudet

Annette Chaudet established Pronghorn Press in 1998 after producing several books for private clients. She then started a writing contest to produce Hard Ground, Writing the Rockies, the first in a series intended to capture contemporary life in the West in poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction.… [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… [more info]



Wayne Cornell

Profile: Caxton Press and Wayne Cornell

Caxton Printers. Ltd. has been owned and operated by the Gipson family since they established an agricultural weekly newspaper in Caldwell in 1895. Caxton Printers was incorporated in 1907. Caxton Press, the publishing arm of the company, has been… [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… [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 Big Horn Basin early in the 20th century. A new book about the Johnson County War is due out soon from the same… [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… [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… [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.… [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… [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… [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… [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… [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… [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… [more info]



Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins is a critically acclaimed author, internationally recognized journalist, and renowned speaker. As a field staff writer for National Geographic, Jenkins covers the globe writing and speaking about geopolitical issues, from opium smuggling in Afghanistan to HIV/AIDS in Botswana, ethnic cleansing… [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.

He is the author… [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… [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.… [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… [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… [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,… [more info]



Bill Mixer

Bill Mixer is the Director of the Environmental Training Center at Casper College and teaches both Water Quality classes and Fly Fishing there. He likes you to ask him which class he likes to teach the most. Mixer finds creative ways to teach Water Quality in communities across Wyoming that coincidentally… [more info]



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… [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.

She is… [more info]



Mary Kay Quinlan

Lincoln native Mary Kay Quinlan is a 1972 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Journalism 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… [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… [more info]



Bruce Richardson

Bruce Richardson (Ph.D., U.C.L.A.) teaches upper division English and interdisciplinary classes for the University of Wyoming in Casper. His publications include articles and catalogue essays on art in the Rocky Mountains, nature writing about Yellowstone, John Muir, teaching humanities, public scholarship,… [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.… [more info]



Russell Rowland

Russell Rowland’s first novel, In Open Spaces, made the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and was named among the "Best of the West 2002" by the Salt Lake City Tribune. Rowland's second novel, The Watershed Years, was recently selected as a finalist for best novel of 2008 by the High Plains Book… [more info]



George Vlastos

George has been a poetry-pusher for nearly two decades, finding the 'spoken word' to be as vital to his daily living as meals, mountainsides, making-up to his wife, and moderating the emotional moguls of their boys. His emcee credentials stretch as far as the island of Crete where he helped highland… [more info]



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… [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,… [more info]