Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays - Volume 2 - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gail Binkly (Essays) is a career writer, reporter, and editor. In 2023, she published her first novel, Trek of a Bird-Woman, an epic fantasy adventure. She has a master's degree in journalism from the Ohio State University and taught news-editorial writing for nine years at the University of Southern Colorado, now Colorado StateUniversity-Pueblo. She worked as a sportswriter at the Colorado Springs Gazette and as a reporter and managing editor at the Cortez Sentinel, now the Cortez Journal. For twenty years she published andedited a monthly newspaper, the Four Corners Free Press, in Cortez, Colorado. The Colorado Society of Professional Journalists honored her with its Keeper of the Flame lifetime achievement award in 2024. She lives with her husband and cats in Cortez, where she continues writing and reporting.

Sarah Carr (Poetry) grew up in the Sierra, and found home in the Pacific Northwest and Appalachia before mountains and deserts drew and rooted her in Colorado in 2010. She holds a BA in creative writing and an MA in literature, and has worked in education for seventeen years as a college writing instructor, university curriculum coordinator, secondary English teacher, and outdoor educator. Her writing has appeared in an eclectic range of publications, from The Climbing Zine to The Journal of the Wooden O to the inaugural2024 edition of the Four Corners Voices anthology. She writes poetry, lives in an old barn in Mancos with her dog Modus and piles of bikes and books, and teaches composition, literature, and outdoor skills. She is honored to curate and amplify the chorus of talented local poets in this year's anthology.

Chuck Greaves (short stories) is the author of seven novels, has been a finalist for many of the top honors in crime fiction including the Shamus, Lefty, Macavity, and Audie Awards, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. His novel Tom & Lucky (Bloomsbury) was a Wall Street Journal "Ten Best Mysteries of 2015" selection, while his novel The Chimera Club, the fourth installment in his critically acclaimed Jack MacTaggart series of legal mysteries (Mi-notaur), was a 2023 Colorado Book Award finalist and was named the Best Mystery Novel of 2022 by the Colorado Authors' League. When not writing, he farms wine grapes in McElmo Canyon, and you can visit him at: www.chuckgreaves.com.