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Volume 8 Number 1
C ONTRI B UTORS
Charles Angell lives near Ruidosa.
Exploring the Big Bend area is both his hobby
and his occupation. e-mail:charles@angellexpedi-
tions.com.
Kleo Maxwell worked many years as an
expedition river guide in Big Bend and the
Grand Canyon. She lives in Alpine. e-mail:
[email protected]
Rani Birchfield is a freelance writer with an
affinity for post-apocalit and cookbooks. She
likes hiking and camping as well as luxury
escapes. e-mail: [email protected]
Sarah Cortez a Councilor of the Texas
Institute of Letters, has numerous poems,
essays and short stories published. An award-
winning anthologist of seven volumes, she edit-
ed Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the Narco-
Violence, winner of a Southwest Book Award
from the Border Regional Librarians
Association and an International Latino Book
Award. e-mail: [email protected]
Howdy-Nocoma Fowler was born and
raised on the Klamath Indian Reservation in
SE Oregon. He has contributed to The Rocky
Mountain News, Western Horseman, Mules and More
and Cowboy Magazine. e-mail: [email protected]
St. James’ Episcopal Church, Ave. A and N. 6th St., Alpine
Holy Eucharist 1st, 2nd, 3rd Sundays 11 a.m.
Morning Prayer 4th and 5th Sundays 11 a.m.
The Big Bend Episcopal
Mission Welcomes You
Santa Inez Church, Terlingua Ghostown
Holy Eucharist first Saturday 5 p.m. Sept.~ May
The Rev. Kay Jennings 432.386.7464 • [email protected]
bigbendepiscopalmission.org
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Serving F ar W es t T e x as a t 9 3.5 FM
Jayne Gallo recently moved to Marathon
from Wake Forest, North Carolina. She is a
retired auditor from North Carolina State
University and enjoys travel, time with her
grandchildren and being involved in her faith
community. She looks forward to exploring
the Big Bend. e-mail: [email protected]
Danielle Gallo is a writer who is proud to be
the editor of the Cenizo Journal. She came to the
area in 2002 and currently lives in Marathon
with her family. e-mail: [email protected]
Jim Glendinning, an Oxford-educated Scot,
lives in Alpine. The story of his travels, Footloose
Scot, has just been published, as has Legendary
Locals of the Big Bend & Davis Mountains for
Arcadia Press. e-mail: [email protected]
Chris Ruggia is an Alpine-based cartoonist
(jackcomics.com) and graphic designer
(vastgraphics.com). He and his wife Ellen own
Vast Graphics in Alpine. e-mail: chris@
vastgraphics.com
Taj Lewis was born in the Adirondack
Mountains of upstate New York, moving to
Texas when she was just twelve years old. Her
whole life, Taj has owned horses and has
always enjoyed photographing them. e-mail:
[email protected]
Rachel Manera is immersed in cultural
research and societal outreach into the remote
desert. She collects data on film/
video, and photography, with artefacts to coa-
lesce assemblage works into site-specific
installations. e-mail: [email protected]
C. W. (Bill) Smith is a writer, historian, and
curator of the Terrell County Memorial
Museum. e-mail: [email protected]
Larry D. Thomas is a member of the Texas
Institute of Letters and was privileged to serve
as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. His Larry D.
Thomas: New and Selected Poems (TCU Press,
2008) was a semi-finalist for the National Book
Award. e-mail: [email protected]
Carolyn Brown Zniewski has been a food
writer and recipe columnist for ten years. She
currently lives in Marathon. e-mail:
[email protected]
Maya Brown Zniewski is an herbalist and
soapmaker who enjoys frequent visits to the
Big Bend area. Her handmade salves, soaps
and tinctures are available at her website,
mayamade.net. e-mail: mayamadeapothecary
@gmail.com
Cover: Yuccas and Dragon's Blood, oil on
canvas 18 x 14 inches by David Loren Bass
Copy editor: Rani Birchfield
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