| Pamela Biery contributes to a number of magazines, including Sierra Heritage, Yogi Times and Birdwatcher's Digest. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she lives in Northern California and works at the communication company she founded in 1979. Airstream's 75th Anniversary online media center, which she developed, was honored with a Summit Award in 2005. Her non-fiction essay, Fair Haven, was selected for publication in Open for All. More examples of her writing can be found at: www.pamelab.com/articles.html Susan M. Botich is a member of the Ash Canyon Poets Society located in Carson City, Nevada. Her poetry has been published in Margie Review, Rattlesnake Review, The Meadow, Danse Macabre and Illya's Honey. She resides in Minden, Nevada, with her husband and son. Adam Henry Carriere is the Nevada Arts Council 2006 Literary Arts Fellow in Poetry & member of the NAC's Tumblewords Touring Initiative. His writing has also appeared in Popular Culture Review, Tattoo Highway, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Barnes & Noble’s Between the Leaves anthology, Gloss, The Chiron Review, Strip, Gay Poetry Online, RFD, Blood Brothers, QTribe, Odyssey, and the Las Vegas Sun. Carriere edits & publishes the online literary journal Danse Macabre and is working on his doctorate at the University of North Texas. Christopher Mulrooney has written poems and translations in Zoland Poetry, The Hollins Critic, Santa Fe Literary Review and Knock, and criticism in Elimae, Blue Fifth Review and Tadeeb. Elizabeth I. Riseden is a native and third generation resident of Ely, Nevada. Liz migrated to western Nevada after thirteen years of living in Europe, and in the Northwest, South, and Southwest. She taught in the University of Nevada system, Chapman College Reno, and at Sierra Nevada College, while publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She also ran the English Department at Ely State Prison for five years. Now semiretired, she laughs often, cries little, and enjoys her Carson City home with its Sierras' panorama, alpine meadow and plentiful wildlife; her family, Ash Canyon Poets, and exotic travel. Brandy Pass resides in Reno. She writes from her varied perspective as an only child, youngest child, and oldest child. Although she grew up in many places, she considers Nevada to be her home. Gayle Sliva's work has been published in the anthology "90 Poets of the Nineties," and journals such as The MacGuffin, Interim, the West Wind Review, Wild Voliet, and Porcupine. She has served on the editorial staffs of two creative arts journals, Brisclecone and the Mosaic, and has taught poetry at many conferences and seminars for both adults and children. |