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Biographies
Norman W. Bates
Hailing from Rhode Island,
Norm finished high school in 1966. In 1971 he graduated from the United
States Military Academy.
During his service he completed his Masters Degree in English at the University
of Massachusetts (Amherst).
After serving twenty years in the army, Norm retired to Sierra
Vista in 1991. He has taught English Composition and
served as faculty advisor ever since. He started as an advisor to Phi Theta
Kappa in the fall of 1998. Norm also teaches American Literature II, an
Honors Seminar and a Leadership/Service course in the Honors Curriculum.
Poetry is part of Norm's pursuit of happiness. He and his family now live in
a log cabin in Hereford.
Susan K. Boyle
Susan K. Boyle is an artist living in Sierra
Vista. After earning a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Arizona
State University,
Susan worked as a commercial artist for several years in the Midwest
and in New York City. She
switched to a career in human resources management, living all over the US,
traveling worldwide, and finally settling in Cochise
County in 2002. Known for her
india ink drawings and mixed media paintings, Susan now spends all of her
time working on art. Her drawings are frequently studies of Cochise
County scenery or its residents
whose inner lives are often revealed by their gesture or expression.
Alice Chew
Alice Eastlake Chew, born in 1917 in Philadelphia, served
in the Navy Waves in WWII, taught biology at Santa Monica College,
California, and did high desert research at the Southwestern Research Station
in Portal, Arizona. She enjoys photography, writing, art, quilting, and
family history. She is the mother of three children. She and her husband
retired to Portal in 1979.
Michael Gregory
Michael Gregory is the author of three books of poetry and
numerous articles and studies on issues of environmental politics. His poems
have appeared widely in periodicals. He is co-founder of the Bisbee Poetry
Festival and Bisbee Press Collective. He is also a founding director of the
Central School Project, an arts and ecology cooperative in Bisbee.
Karen Hopkins
Karen Hopkins was born in California
and grew up on the San Francisco Bay.
As a teenager she was fortunate to travel through Mexico
and South America, living for a period of time in Chile
and Argentina.
After earning a degree in fashion merchandising and Spanish she worked for
Pan American Airlines based out of London,
where she was able to continue traveling to places as diverse as New
Delhi and Beirut.
She and her husband both taught English as a second language in Panama,
and then for eleven years were co-owners of a successful second language
program in the United States.
She has taught English, Spanish, Spanish for native speakers, ESL, and reading in both public and private programs
from fourth grade to the university level. She is retired from the Arizona
State System. She and her husband are parents of eight children.
Sarah Hynes
Sarah has contemplated a pseudonym (mostly for experimentation's
sake), but she couldn't find an appropriately literary last name (Eliot
already being overused). So she presents herself as herself and would like to
use this forum to retract all former denunciations of Stephen King, whose
Dark Tower III is wonderful and
not a load of mass-produced, commercialistic drivel, or at least not drivel,
and to urge anyone listening to read The Old Man and the Sea.
Rose Johnson
Rose Johnson is a painter and a nationally recognized
illustrator. Two of her most notable works are the Peace Wall at the base of
Castle Rock and the Jonquil Motel Mural on Tombstone
Canyon in Bisbee. She has also
done murals at the Bisbee Boys and Girls Club. Johnson's public and community
art has been funded with grants from The Bisbee Art Commission, Arizona
Commission of the Arts, and the cities of Tempe,
Mesa, Guadalupe, and Casa Grande.
Her paintings are in the collection of the Tucson
Airport and The Phoenix
Children's Hospital. Currently, Rose is exhibiting at Belleza Gallery on Main
Street in Bisbee and collaborating with Diane
Freund on a series of children's books.
Nadine Kachur
Nadine Kachur graduated with an M.A. in English from Arizona
State University.
She was awarded scholarships to study with Thomas Lux at the Sarah Lawrence
College Summer Seminar for Writers in both 2003 and 2004, and, in conjunction
with the workshop, was also awarded a Personal Development Grant from Arizona
Commission on the Arts. She's been a staff writer with Sun Tennis Magazine, a
copywriter in radio, and an editor for everything from marketing research to
metaphysical manuscripts. Her poems appear regularly in many southwest
publications, and she is currently on an editorial board compiling a regional
anthology of women's poetry.
Carol Lieber
Carol Lieber has lived many years near the desert, and
some away. Always, though, the scent of summer storms and the openness have
been an inspiration for writing. She began writing poetry and music when she
was nine years old; reading, writing, and playing the piano are her sources
of contentment.
Palmer McDonald
Palmer McDonald is a forty-three-year-old, self-absorbed
loner who studies writing at Cochise
College. He graduated with a
bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford
University (1983), and a M. B. A.
from the Tuck School
at Dartmouth College
(1992). He earned his Ph.D. in marketing from Florida
State University
(1999). He has taught at both the University
of Arizona and Loyola
Marymount University
in LA. Palmer served as an AmeriCorps VISTA, an AmeriCorps volunteer, and a
Promise Fellow. He likes to travel and enjoys living in the West.
Chris E. McGuire
Chris E. McGuire writes from personal experience. She
loves the process of transforming something very personal into feelings
anyone can relate to. Writing helps to heal from the past and grow toward the
future. She goes where the muse takes her.
Heather Morrison
Heather Morrison is a thirty-four-year-old single mother
and full-time college student. She is a migrated southerner and has lived in Arizona
for three years. She is a physics major with plans to attend NAU beginning in
the fall of 2005. She loves math, science, and the arts. She has been writing
since she was a small child.
Kimberlynn Petersen
Kimberlynn Petersen is currently attending Cochise
College at Sierra
Vista. She is attending college to become a
professional photographer and hopes to work alongside her photo journalist
husband.
Carol Sanger
Carol Sanger began writing seriously four to five years
ago. She moved to Cochise County
in 2002 from Phoenix. Originally
from New York, she has spent
the last ten years working for the State of Arizona
on a variety of infrastructure and economic development projects including
the state's rural development bank, the Greater Arizona Development Authority,
and the CANAMEX Trade Corridor. She is marred, has children, grandchildren,
dogs, and a cat.
Kelly Tighe
Kelly Tighe's outdoor articles have appeared in Arizona
Highways magazine, Traillazer, Sweat, Arizona Wildlife Views, The Tucson
Citizen and The Dallas Morning News. She has published two trail guides. Her
most recent, Best Trails In and Around Kartchner Caverns State Park, is
available in local stores and from amazon.com. She is a member of the Society
of Southwestern Authors. Kelly graduated from the Nursing Program at Cochise
College in 1986.
Neal P. Willy
Neal P. Willy belongs to a writing group that has members
(or did have) from Rodeo, NM and Portal, AZ. He is eighty and has been
scribbling poems, essays, and stories since coming here. The poem "The
Florence of Boccaccio" was inspired by the preface to The Tales of
DeCameron.
Ashley Elaine York
Ashley Elaine York is a novelist and freelance journalist.
She received her B.S. in sociology from Florida
State University
in 1997. She served as an AmeriCorps VISTA in New
Mexico from 2000-2001. York
teaches English in Iwate, Japan
and will serve as Arizona 2005 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Singapore.
At National University of Singapore, she will undertake an M.A. in Southeast
Asian studies. York has published
photo journals in magazines and newspapers. She is currently writing a novel
about single thirty-somethings in Japan.
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