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Total in Set: 17
Saracino, Mary
Address:
303 1/2 E. Geneseo Street, Lafayette, CO 80026
Specialties:
Literary fiction (novels), creative non-fiction/memoir; poetry
Books:
The Singing of Swans (Pearlsong Press 2006); Voices of the Soft-bellied Warrior (Spinsters Ink 2001); Finding Grace (Spinsters Ink 1999); No Matter What (Spinsters Ink 1993); Don’t Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing; The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Write about Food and Culture; Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul;Hey Paesan! Writings by Lesbians and Gay Men of Italian Descent;She is Everywhere
Periodicals:
Italian Americana: a cultural and historical review; Voices in Italian Americana, a literary and cultural review; Sinister Wisdom
Online Credit:
www.newversenews.com; www.thepedestalmagazine.com; www.mothertongued.com
Memberships:
PEN; National Writer's Union, Colorado Authors' League
Awards/Honors:
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 nomination for the poem, “No Country for Old Women’; 2008, 1st Annual Italian/American Citizen Journalist-Digital Witness Content, finalist and third place award for “Non Parlo Italiano”; 2007 Fall/Winter Glass Woman Prize, “Vicky’s Secret”
2007, Lambda Literary Awards, Finalist, Spirituality Category, The Singing of Swans (Pearlsong Press 2006); 2005 Writer’s Residency Award, Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women.
2000 Salvator & Margaret Bonomo Memorial Prize for Literature, co-winner, for “Valentino, Puglia, & Seneca Falls”; 1999 Colorado Authors’ League, “Top Hand Award”, Adult Fiction Mainstream/Literary, Finding Grace; 1999 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Finalist, Children/Young Adult category, Finding Grace;1995 Writer’s Residency Award, Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women; 1994 Minnesota Book Award finalist, fiction category, No Matter What;
1991-1992 Loft Mentor Series Award, fiction category.
Pseudonyms:
Lisa Schafer, Lisa Rohner Schafer, L.R. Schafer
Specialties:
Western lifestyle, equine, general interest nonfiction feature articles.
Skills & Media:
Magazines, websites, ghostwriting, co-authoring
Periodicals:
American Cowboy, Coloradan, Flight Training, Draft Horse Journal, Trail Blazer, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Iowa City Press Citizen, Casper Star Tribune, Iowa City Magazine
Online Credit:
Horsecity.com, Americancowboy.com
Other Credits:
CU Alumni Association Travel Catalog
Memberships:
Colorado Authors League, American Horse Publications
Awards/Honors:
William Randalph Hearst award for Investigative Reporting
Address:
5921 El Diente Court, Golden, CO 80403
Address:
1761 County Road 17, Del Norte, CO 81132
Specialties:
memoir, creative nonfiction, book length non-fiction; nonfiction magazine features and essays, outdoors, nature, adventure, health, humor
Skills & Media:
writing instruction, writing workshops & consulting
Books:
Instant Karma: the Heart and Soul of a Ski Bum 2007
Periodicals:
Writer's Digest, Your Health Monthly, America West, Outdoor Explorer, Bloomsbury Review, Velo News, Triathlete, The Denver Post, Mountain Gazette, Ski Country, Rocky Mountain Sport, Inside/Outside Southwest, Crested Butte Magazine and many others
Other Credits:
Contributor: AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service--and How it Hurts Our Country, by Frank Schaeffer
Awards/Honors:
Finalist, FOREWORD Magazine 2007 Book of the Year Award; Nominee, 2007 Colorado Cook Award: Nominee, 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award
Address:
405 Colorow Road, Golden, CO 80401
Specialties:
Screenwriting, poetry,
Children's
Address:
1922 Calle de Seville, Colorado Springs, CO 80904
Books:
DOWN TO THE WIRE: THE LIVES OF THE TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPIONS
THE FORGOTTEN CHAMPION: MIDDLEGROUND
Specialties:
Creative non-fiction, essays and memoirs
Address:
PO Box 588, Monument, CO 80132
Specialties:
children's and young adult fiction and nonfiction; Western history
Skills & Media:
Interpretive writing for historic and environmental sites, including museums, nature centers, wayside exhibits, and audio recordngs
Books:
Writers of the American West: Multicultural Learning Encounters, CAL Award winner and Colorado Book Award finalist;
Enos Mills: Rocky Mountain Naturalist
Other Credits:
CD--Listening For the Sound of Wheels: A Living History of the Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail
Awards/Honors:
The Wilderness Society Environmental Heroes Award; Pikes Peak Arts Council Award
Address:
12837 W. 78th Cir., Arvada, CO 80005
Specialties:
fiction, non-fiction, articles
Skills & Media:
Journalism, public relations, public speaking
Books:
Neptune's Chariot,Deadly Passage, No Laughing Matter,
Sakura's Stratagem,
How to Run Your Business So You Can Leave It in Style
Periodicals:
Denver Post; Rocky Mountain News; Compass; Naval History
Memberships:
Colorodo Authors' League,
Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers
Awards/Honors:
CAL Top Hand Award for mainstream fiction, 2009; CAL Harvey Award for genre fiction, 2008; Colorado Independent Publishers Association 2008 EVVY Award,
Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 1991 lst Place Mystery
Address:
1240 Columbine, Denver, CO 80206
Agents:
Jane Chelius Literary Agency
Memberships:
Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (board member); Sisters in Crime
Address:
P.O. Box 845, Sedalia, CO 80135
Specialties:
equine journalism, personal financial planning, health and fitness, business and technical
Skills & Media:
web content, web structure, technical editing, copy editing, proofreading, prepublication manuscript review/editing
Books:
"Advanced Western Riding" published 9/2007, BowTie Inc.
Periodicals:
Horse Illustrated, Eclectic Horseman, Arabian Horse, Horses USA
Online Credit:
www.managingmymoney.com, www.nfec.info
Other Credits:
copy and technical editor for financial education books
Memberships:
Colorado Authors League, American Horse Publications
Awards/Honors:
Society for Technical Communication best of show; International Association of Business Communicators, award of merit: American Horse Publications, 1st and 2nd placings in nonfiction article categories
Books:
Manhattan Transfer, Redshift Rendezvous, Naught for Hire, and others
Periodicals:
Analog, Nature, Amazing, Fantastic, Dragon, and others
Memberships:
Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, (SFWA), Mystery Writers of America (MWA)
Awards/Honors:
Nebula Award nominee, Hugo Award Honorable Mention, CAL Top Hand
Stohlgren, Tom
Address:
919 Lookout Court, Windsor, CO 80550
Specialties:
Fiction and Historical Fiction Novels, Screenplays, and Comedy plays.
Skills & Media:
Science journals and textbooks by day, fiction by night.
Books:
"Severed Treaty" Strategic Book Publishing
Periodicals:
Ecology, Biological Invasions, dozens of others.
Specialties:
Poetry, short stories, essays, book reviews, articles
Books:
Prayer To A Purple God (poetry); Body Language (forthcoming-essays); Anthologies: Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses (U. of Iowa Press); The Poetry of Nursing (Kent State U. Press); The Age of Koestler; We Speak for Peace; Prairie Smoke:The Pueblo Poetry Project 1979-1989; Wingbone: Poetry from Colorado; Toward Solomon's Mountain: The Experience of Disability in Poetry (Temple U. Press); Hyperion:Black Sun, New Moon (Carolina Wren Press);Practices of the Wind; Womanthology: A Collection of Colorado Women Poets.
Periodicals:
SLAB:Sound and Literary Art Book; Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine;North Dakota Quarterly;South Dakota Review; The Mochila Review;Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine; American Journal of Nursing; Calyx; Prairie Schooner;Crucible;Georgia State University Review; Thin Air Magazine;Westview:A Journal of Western Oklahoma;Ascent;Cumberland Poetry Review;Carquinez Poetry Review;Eclipse:A Literary Journal; The Minnesota Review:A Journal of Committed Writing;Sing Heavenly Muse!; Zone 3; Birmingham Poetry Review;Kaleidoscope: International Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts and Disability; Poetry East;The Eleventh Muse;Paris/Atlantic:International Magazine of Poetry;Calapooya Collage;Balance:The Lifestyle Magazine for Women Physicians;High Plains Literary Review;Cream City Review;Newsletter Inago;Earth's Daughters:A Feminist Arts Periodical;Phoenix;Mediphors:A Literary Journal for the Health Professions;Embers;The Devil's Millhopper;The Connecticut Writer;Visions-International;The Bloomsbury Review;The Sun:A Magazine of Ideas;Blue Buildings;Gumbo.
Memberships:
The Authors' Guild; Hedgebrook Alumnae;Association of Writers and Writing Programs; Poets and Writers Directory (online); Rocky Mountain Women's Institute alumnae
Awards/Honors:
Hedgebrook:writer's residency;Rocky Mountain Women's Institute-poetry fellowship; Neodata Foundation-writing grant; Katherine Sharp Rachlis Memorial grant-Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation;Ucross Foundation-writer's residency; Arts and Humanities Assembly of Boulder-grant; Embers poetry competition-first place-nominated for Pushcart prize.
Specialties:
how to write your life story, essays, op-ed, poetry, biography
Books:
Wayne Aspinall: Mr. Chairman
Periodicals:
The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, Shale Country, Prime Time
Online Credit:
denverpost.com; silverplanet.com
Memberships:
Women's Forum of Colorado, Colorado Authors League, Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance
Awards/Honors:
former Colorado State legislator; former chair Colorado Air Quality Control Commission; Phi Beta Kappa
Susman, Karen
Address:
PO Box 371500, Denver, CO 80237
Specialties:
business, humor, presentation and networking skills, coaching on presentation skills and networking for authors
Skills & Media:
Presentation and networking skills coaching
Books:
102 Top Dog Networking Secrets, 101 Top Dog Tricks of Time and Activity Management, 55 Ways to Improve Your Laugh Life, 201 Secrets for Building Community Involvement
Periodicals:
A/E Rainmaker, Scotsman Guide, Top of The Table
Other Credits:
International speaker for groups like NBC, Marriott Hotels, American Express and Burger King
Memberships:
Colorado Authors' League, Denver Advisory Board, Denver University
Alumni Board, Denver Coach Federation
Szczurek Ph.D., Theresa M.
Address:
1107 12th Street, #184, Boulder, CO 80302-7029
Specialties:
Non-fiction business books, presentations, and articles
Skills & Media:
speaking, social media marketing, B2B marketing, running and growing your business
Books:
Pursuit of Passionate Purpose; Champions of Technological Change; Financing Technology Businesses
Periodicals:
Boulder County Business Report; Northern Colorado Business Report
Online Credit:
www.PursuitofPassionatePurpose.com; www.CoBiz.com; www.BCBR.com
Memberships:
Institute of Management Consultants; Boulder Chamber of Commerce; Boulder Rotary; Boulder Business and Professional Women, International Women's Forum
Awards/Honors:
Woman Who Light Up the Community (Boulder Chamber), Rotarian of Year, Woman of Year (BPW, YWCA), Colorado BPW Visionary Award, Real Women Real Business (Denver Business Journal), Model of Excellence (Colorado Technology Incubator), Young Career Woman (Colorado BPW)
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