Lunarosity Authors' Profiles R-S-T

        Anne Valley-Fox

        lives, works and writes in Santa Fe. Her poetry books are Sending the Body Out (Zephyr Press), Fish Drum 15 (Fish Drum Press), Point of No Return (La Alameda Press) and forthcoming from UNM Press in 2009, How Shadows Are Bundled. (February 09)

        Heather van Doren's

        poetry and fiction have appeared in Word Riot, Yankee Pot Roast, Long Story Short, Spillway Review, Pemmican, Poetry Scotland and Wicked Alice. (August 2006)

        Richard Vargas

        was born and raised in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, where he attended California State University, Long Beach. From 1977-80 he published and edited five issues of The Tequila Review. He was stationed in Ft. Carson, Colorado, lived in Rockford, IL., and is currently residing in Albuquerque, NM. See his book, McLife, listed under Lunar authors publications. He can be contacted at picodegallo54@yahoo.com (April 2009)

        Nena Villamil

        finished an MFA in poetry at New Mexico State University in May, 2007 under the guidance of Connie Voisine. Currently she teaches freshman composition at NMSU and also teaches for Upward Bound, a program to prepare first-generation, low-income high school students for the demands of college. This fall she is a Visiting Poet for NMCultureNet's "Poets in the Schools" program in Lovington, New Mexico, where literacy is encouraged among middle school students via poetry.

        Jason Visconti

        lives in Astoria, New York., and his poetry has appeared recently in, among others, "Virtual Writer", "Poetheart", "Now and Forever", and "About The Arts."

        Patrick Walsh

        currently lives in Ireland. Previous publications include "Aught,The Ugly Tree," "Facets, Dead Mule" and "Underground Window" among others. (December 2008)

        Danielle Weinhold

        is a college student living in Valparaiso, Indiana, attending Valparaiso University. Her first, and only, publishing credential thus far is a poem in Portals, Purdue North Central's Literary Journal. (December 2005).

        Patricia Wellingham-Jones

        is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work published internationally in anthologies, journals, and Internet magazines, Winner of the Palabra Productions Chapbook Contest 2006, End-Cycle, poems about caregiving, is her latest book. She recently won Grand Prize in the Artists Embassy International Dancing Poetry Contest. Her website is wellinghamjones.com . See also Lunar author publications on Lunarosity's index menu. (July 2005, December 2006, December 2007, Feb 09).

        Lawrence Welsh,

        has published four books of poetry. Two new books are forthcoming in 2007: Skull Highway (La Alameda Press) and Walking Backwards to Santa Fe (Pitchfork Press). His work has appeared in more than 175 national and regional magazines, including Puerto del Sol, The Louisiana Review, Hawaii Review, Rio Grande Review, The Texas Observer, Chiron Review, among others. A winner of the Bardsong Press Celtic Voice Writing Award in Poetry, he's an associate professor of English at El Paso Community College.(October 07)

        Jonathan Martin Werner

        has been writing "for a number of years now," and been a member of the online poetry forum thepoetsanctuary.net since October of 2006. (September 09).

        Sylvia Wheeler

        has published seven books: poetry, anthologies and a play, as well as fiction/poetry in numerous literary magazines. She has won various awards, including a Witter Bynner Publication Award for Counting Back, poems, and a fellowship to The MacDowell Colony.

        K.M. White

        a retired RN, and a current student of herbal medicine, who has travelled recently in Mexico and Costa Rica, has been published in Earthships: a New Mecca Poetry Collection, and had two poems, with accompanying art pieces, included in The Cradle Project art installation, June 2008, in Albuquerque, NM.(August 2008).

        Neal Whitman

        lives in Pacific Grove, CA, and is a volunteer docent in nearby Carmel at Robinson Jeffers Tor House. Toodles around town in white hatchback with personalized auto plate, PG POET, in customized frame, "Poetic License." 30 poems in 13 journals! A miracle considering the numbers. Amicus poeticae. (September 09)

        Linda Whittenberg

        considers New Mexico home, although she grew up in Illinois farm country and has lived many places. As a Unitarian Universalist minister she served congregations in California and Washington State. She has a passion for equine and owns a horse and two mules. With her husband, Bob, she rides in the Pecos Wilderness. After retirement in 2000 she began writing poetry and has been published by Manzanita Quarterly, Pudding House Press, and Sin Fronteras,Writers without Borders. (Oct. 2005, Feb 09).

        Daniel Wilcox

        earned his B.A. in Creative Writing from Cal State University, Long Beach. He is a former activist, former teacher, former wanderer who has farmed in the Middle East and lived on an island in eastern Pennsylvania. His writing has appeared in The Other Side Magazine, various poetry journals such as The Centrifugal Eye, Sentinel Poetry Online, The November 3rd Club, and The Indite Circle. A short story based on his life in the Middle East was published in the September 2007 issue of The Danforth Review. He currently resides on the California coast with his mysterious wife and youngest gaming son. His writer's website is at http://seaquaker.com/ (February 2008)

        Earl J. Wilcox

        retired from 40+ years of teaching and publishing definitive studies on Robert Frost, Jack London, Robert Penn Warren, and others. An avid baseball fan ( St. Louis Cards), he publishes poetry about his sport. His poetry appeared recently in Third Lung Review, Strange Horizons, The Centrifugal Eye, Word Riot, Underground Voices, Southern Gothic and Kakalak, among others.. (February 2006, December 2006, June 2007, February & August 08, April 09).

        Rochelle Williams

        writes art reviews for the Ink Magazine and the Alamagordo Daily News, is currently working on a novel, and has won several honors as a short story writer, including first place in the Southwest Writers Workshop literary short story contest in 2000. An excerpt from her novel-in-progress"Bodies of Water," along with several poems, will appear on the Otero Arts Council website (www.otero-arts.org) gallery in the spring of 2004. (1-1-04)

        Keith Wilson

        is a native New Mexican poet and short story writer, and author of many books. He is Professor Emeritus in English at NMSU, and has received numerous awards, among them the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the Premio Frontereza from the Border Book Festival for Lifetime Achievement. His memoir, a compendium entitled The Cause of Rite was published in October (2001) by Pennywhistle Press, and his Collected Poems are forthcoming by Clark City Press. The poems that appears here are from his book Bosque Redondo: The Encircled Grove (Pennywhistle Press 2000). (Oct, 2007, March 09) Keith Wilson served as the Poet Laureate of Las Cruces, and is by many accounts the desert shaman poet of New Mexico. He passed away in February 2009.

        Jane Wong

        is a junior at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where she majors in Literature and Creative Writing. At Bard, she is the poetry editor of a student-run print and web journal, Verse Noire. Her work was featured in the June 2005 issue of Chronogram as well as various Bard publications. (June 2006)

        Mary Jo Marcellus Wyse

        is a graduate of Vermont College's MFA in writing program. Her recent writing credits include publications in Current Magazine (online), Mota 4: Integrity, Pindeldyboz, (online), Muse Apprentice Guild (online), Freedom Isn't Free (forthcoming) and an essay in the book, Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism (University of Notre Dame Press). She teaches creative writing at Central Academy in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (February 2007)

        Ellen Roberts Young's

        chapbook, Accidents, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2004. She has poems anthologized in Orpheus and Company (Deborah DeNicola, editor) and The Wisdom of Daughters (R. H. Finger and K. Sandhaas, editors) as well as publications in numerous journals. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Her most recent book, The Map of Longing, (June 09) is by Finishing Line Press. (October 2007, Feb 09)

        John Young

        teaches elementary school children stuff they ought to know, but rarely want to know. He lives in Bellflower, California. His writing has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, FlashShot, The Chiron Review, Heavy Glow, and Laughter Loaf. His short-short "Unconditional Love" recently won second place in Inkspotter.com's "Finding the Right Words" 2005 contest. He writes a monthly "featured market" column for Flash Fiction Flash, a newsletter.(December 2005).

        Andrena Zawinski

        lives and teaches writing in Oakland, CA but was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work appears widely online and in print. She is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com. (August 2006)

        Catherine Zickgraf

        is "a former Northerner excited about growing my roots into the Georgia clay. I intend to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing once my little boys get a bit older." (February 2009)

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