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Members - Last Names starting with "B"
Total in Set: 20
Bair, Julene
Address:
6217 Corinth Rd., Longmont, CO 80503
Specialties:
environmental topics, alternative farming, western Kansas, personal essays, memoir
Books:
One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter
Periodicals:
Chicago Tribune, Iowa Review, High Country News, Michigan Quarterly, Missouri Review, North Dakota Quarterly, etc.
Awards/Honors:
2009 CAL Top Hand Award, Personal Essay; 2000 Willa Award, Creativen Nonfiction; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2004; Wyoming Arts Council Blanchan award and Award for the Best Story Written in Wyoming; Creative Nonfiction Award, 2000, from Midlist Press
Periodicals:
PEOPLE magazine
5280 magazine
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Online Credit:
5280.com
ColoradoConfidential.com
Memberships:
Society of Professional Journalists
Awards/Honors:
Multiple award winner, Colorado Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists
Address:
7020 Puma Trail, Littleton, CO 80125
Specialties:
poetry, marketing writing, advertising, copywriting, fiction, children's literature
Skills & Media:
collateral, naming, branding, websites, white papers, ads (print, tv, radio and interactive)
Books:
Within/Without: A Conversation in Poetry and Painting, and
Bright Seeds
Periodicals:
American Tanka, Amherst Review, Cicada, The Formalist,
Santa Clara Review, Quarter After Eight
Awards/Honors:
State of Colorado Artist Fellowship, Pierce the Heart Haiku Contest
Specialties:
fiction, poetry, articles:non-fiction, inspirational
Periodicals:
Raintown Review
Parnassus Literary Journal
The Pen Woman
River Run (Academic)
Once Upon A Time (Children's)
The Storyteller
Lutheran Digest
New England Writer's Network (Short Stories)
Purpose Magazine
The Observer(Arthritis Soc)
Hernando Medic (Medical Society)
Milestones (MS Society)
The Lutheran Message
Authorship Magazine (NWA)
The Secret Place
Other Credits:
Guest Lecturer, Metro State College of Denver
Memberships:
National League of American Pen Women, Foothills Writers
Awards/Honors:
1st Place, Poetry, Society of Southwestern Authors,
4th Place, Poetry, National Writer's Assn. (Natl Comp.),
1st Place, Poetry, Denver National Writer's Assn., People's Choice Award, Poetry, The Storyteller,
Hon Mention, Short Story, Society of Southwestern Authors,
Sweepstakes Award, Poetry Society of Colorado
Address:
1220 W. High Point Lane, Colorado Springs, CO 80904
Specialties:
children's literature, personal essays, adult short stories
Address:
PO Box 482, Aspen, CO 81612
Books:
The Telling Distance, There Was A River, Almost an Island, Oasis of Stone
Periodicals:
The New York Times, Orion, Barron's, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review
Memberships:
PEN, American Academy of Poets,
CAL
Awards/Honors:
Western States Book Award, Colorado Book Award, Colorado Authors' League Award.
Specialties:
Magazine & newspaper articles, copywriting & photography.
Address:
861 11th Street, Boulder, CO 80302
Agents:
Gail Hochman at Brandt & Hochman
Specialties:
nonfiction books, essays and articles
Books:
In the Shadow of Polio; Mothering Without a Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within
Periodicals:
Woman's Day, Mirabella, Child, Yoga Journal, The Briar Cliff Review, Psychotherapy Networker, and many more
Other Credits:
Currently a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
Awards/Honors:
Colorado Book Award for Literary Nonfiction; June Roth Award for Health and Medical Writing; ASJA Author of the Year; ASJA Outstanding Book Award
Address:
1344 Lambert Circle, Lafayette, CO 80026
Specialties:
children's lit, magazine, self-help
Skills & Media:
Workplace Communication Expert
Address:
5224 Lighthouse Point Court, Loveland,, CO 80537-7916
Specialties:
Grassland and Alpine Ecology, Forensic Botany
Skills & Media:
scientific journals in biology
Books:
Evolutionary Ecology of Plants (Ed. with Y. Linhart), Forensic Botany Guide (with D. Norris and M. Lane), View from BaldHill (with C. Bock), Sonoita Plain (with C. Bock)
Periodicals:
Nature, American Naturalist, Ecology, Great Plains Naturalist, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Conservation Biology
Memberships:
American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Necrosearch International, International assoc. for Identification, Botanical Society of America, British Ecological Soceity
Awards/Honors:
Hazel Barnes Award (CU), Paper of the Year (Great Plains Nat.),
Address:
5542 S. Siciliy St., Aurora, CO 80015
Address:
1025 Emerald Street, Broomfield, CO 80020
Specialties:
Nonfiction books, magazine articles--spirtual, health
Books:
Loved by Choice: True Stories that Celebrate Adoption, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Collection, Learning to Walk Again: How Guillain Barre Taught Me to Walk a Different Path, Facing Brain Cancer with Hope: A Caregiver's Story
Periodicals:
Mature Living, Good Old Days, Byline, Woan's Touch,Catholic Digest, Lutheran Digest, Journey, Plus Magazine, Cross and Quill, Pray, Bravehearts, Dog and Kennel, Antique Trader's Collector, Mountain States Collector
Address:
14160 E. Bellewood Drive, Aurora, CO 80015
Agents:
Jacques deSpoelberch, Jeff Herman
Specialties:
Non-fiction business & financial writer; columnist author and speaker; publishing consultant
Skills & Media:
coach for speaking, PR, media, independent publishing, book strategies, visual presentations
Books:
as of 6/09, 26 books have been published, including--
Stabotage: How to Deal with the Pit Bulls, Skunks, Snakes, Scorpions & Slugs in the Health Care Workplace, Money Smarts for Turbulent Times, Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace; The Confidence Factor; Stop Stabbing Yourself in the Back; Money Smarts; Smart Money Moves for Kids; The Dollars and Sense of Divorce; Woman to Woman; Woman to Woman 2000; The Workplace; When God Says No
Periodicals:
Hundreds, including the Career Moves column for the Denver Business Jounal; Money Moves for Men in Nursing Journal; Journal of Accountancy; Zenith; Denver Woman; the Gannett papers; Knight Ridder, etc.
Online Credit:
www.TheBookShepherd.com; www.BizJournals.com/Denver; www.Briles.com
Other Credits:
KWGN's money expert--regular segments on morning show
Memberships:
Author U (Meetup)-Founder; Denver Women's Press Club; Colorado Independent Publishers Assoc; Independent Book Publishers Assoc; Small Publishers of North America; Authors Guild
Awards/Honors:
2008 USA Book Finalist for The Confidence Factor and Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace; Colorado Center for the Book winner (10 Smart Money Moves for Women); The Confidence Factor, Money Smarts, Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace--best business (CIPA); Smart Money Moves for Kids--best Parenting/How-to (CIPA); Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace, The Confidence Factor and Money Smarts have won several "technical" awrds for design, cover, layout and editing; Woman to Woman--Chicago Tribune's best business book, 2004 reciepent of Distinguished Woman from the Girl Scouts; President Award from YWCA
Address:
PO Box 23973, Silverthorne, CO 80498
Specialties:
children: middle grade fiction
multicultural/diversity education
Skills & Media:
tv
radio
website/blog
speaker
Books:
Soul Sunday: A FAmily's Guide to Exploring Faith and Teaching Tolerance
Address:
22 S. Nome St., #E, Aurora, CO 80012
Specialties:
Nonfiction, primarily fitness and health
Address:
8 Royal Oak Drive, Athens, GA 30607
Specialties:
Young adult; Western literature
Awards/Honors:
2006 Independent Publisher Book Award for juvenile/young adult fiction; Book Sense Children's Pick for Winter 2005/2006
Address:
502 Wren Court, Basalt, CO 81621-8238
Specialties:
Nonfiction travel and adventure books and articles
Books:
Postcards from the Trailer Park: The Secret Lives of Climbers;
Kilimanjaro & East Africa: A Climbing And Trekking Guide (Paperback);
Kilimanjaro & Mount Kenya: A Climbing and Trekking Guide;
Selected Climbs in the Desert Southwest: Colorado and Utah;
0 Hikes in Colorado: The Front Range, the Central Mountains, the San Juans, and the Western Canyons;
Climbing California's Fourteeners: The Route Guide to the Fifteen Highest Peaks;
Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village (Natural Building Series)
Periodicals:
Aspen Daily News, sustainability columnist (10/04–present)
Nikkei Ecology Magazine (Japan), sustainability columnist (1/02–present)
Mountain Gazette, gear columnist (12/04–12/06); contributor (2000–present)
Hard-Pressed (Basalt, Colo.) Books; Founder/Owner (1997–present)
Responsible for production of books, from conception to research, writing, design, printing, marketing, and fulfillment. Small press being run as part-time operation.
Aspen.com, (Aspen, Colo.); Production Manager (temporary assignment) (Fall 2000)
Responsible for daily production of one-page “street sheet” newspaper. Additional responsibilities include photography and editing.
Roaring Fork Sunday (Basalt, Colo.); Production Manager, Staff Writer (5/99–6/00)
Responsible for weekly production of 48–72-page newspaper, including graphics and photography. Additional responsibilities include writing and editing of major business features, proofreading, and updating of the paper’s website, on a weekly basis.
Climber magazine (Glasgow, Scotland); Columnist (2/98–present)
The Aspen Times, (Aspen Colo.); Correspondent (6/96–present)
Responsible for daily coverage of news in a two-town region, and weekly news feature writing.
Rocky Mountain News, (Denver, Colo.); Correspondent (6/92–6/97)
The Aspen Times, (Aspen, Colo.); Environment Reporter/Staff Writer (6/92–6/96)
Responsible for daily and weekly coverage of environmental, business, political.
Additional responsibilities include major weekly news features, up to 4,000 words.
Sangre De Cristo Chronicle, (Angel Fire, NM); Staff Writer/Photographer (8/91–6/92)
High magazine, (Sheffield, U.K.); Correspondent/Contributor (9/92–present)
Mountain Review, (Buxton, UK); American Editor (4/93–2/95)
Mountain magazine, (Sheffield, UK); Contributing Editor/American Editor (10/91–7/92)
Rock & Ice magazine, (Boulder, Colo.); Correspondent/Contributing Editor (12/89–98)
Albuquerque Journal North; (Santa Fe, NM) Correspondent (5/89–8/89)
Other Credits:
5280 magazine • American Alpine Journal • Appalachia • Apex • Aspen Philanthropist • Backcountry Skiing • Backpacker.com • Blue • Boulder Daily Camera • Climbing • The Climbing Art • Colorado Fourteeners Initiative Newsletter • Denver Post • Desnvivel (Spain.) • Discover Mexico (Canada) • Ecos (the quarterly magazine of CSIRO (Australia)) • Energypulse.net (Internet) • GQ magazine • Getaway (South Africa) • Glenwood (Springs, Colo.) Post-Independent • Gorp.com • Greenbiz.com • Greenerbuildings.com • Gripped (Canada) • High Country News • Indian Architect & Builder (Bombay, India) • Los Alamos Monitor • Montagne (France) • Grolier’s (encyclopedias) • Msafiri (Kenya) • New Mexico Magazine • Newsweek • Onsight • Ouray Plaindealer • Outdoor Action (Aus.) • Outdoor Australia (Aus.) • Outpost (Canada) • Rocky Mountain News • Raton Range • Roaring Fork Valley Magazine • Roaring Fork Sunday • Runner’s World (UK) • Santa Fe New Mexican • Silicon Valley Ecology Club Newsletter • Solar Today • Sportclimbing • Tantravel (Tanzania) • Telluride Magazine • TGO (The Great Outdoors) (UK) • The Times (UK) • Vertical • Veteran’s Outlook • World & I
Memberships:
• National Association of Science Writers, 2006–
• Outdoor Writer’s Guild (UK), 2006–
• Colorado Authors’ League, 2003–present
• North American Travel Journalists Association, 2002–
• American Alpine Club, 1989–
Awards/Honors:
Thirty national (U.S.) and regional awards for writing (including the North American Association of Travel Journalists’ 2002 Book of the Year award, the Grand Prize at the 1998 Banff Mountain Book Festival, and finalist in the 2004 Banff Mountain Book Festival) and the 2004 Colorado Book Awards; four (Apex, Communicator) awards for corporate communications; three regional photography awards; one graphic design award.
Address:
360 S. Monroe St., Ste. 290, Denver, CO 80209-3718
Books:
Loving Him Without Losing You, The 7 Dumbest Relationship Mistakes Smart People Make and Bring Back the Man You Fell in Love With
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