Artist Summary: I am a poet and an author of nonfiction. To support this habit, I am also an editor, ghostwriter, and indexer with extensive experience with academic books and historical novels, as well as other types of writing.

Copies of Dancing Fish, Doann’s chapbook published in November 2011 by Pudding House Publications, are available from Doann directly, ordered from her website, or purchased at The Book Haven. It’s an evocative collection of narrative nonfiction and poetry excerpts from her forthcoming book about her ten-year circumnavigation.

Category: Writing

Discipline: Poet and nonfiction author

Mailing Address:
Doann Houghton
12798 County Road 261 P
Nathrop, CO 81236

Phone: 719-839-0875

website: doannhoughton.com

Email: doannhoughtongmailcom

After living on the Front Range of Colorado for over 30 years, I moved to Salida in 2000 because it is the last best small town in Colorado.

Category: Writer
Discipline: Fiction, Non-Fiction
Subject: History, especially historical fiction

Mailing Address:
Jackie Powell
532 Poncha Blvd.
Salida, CO 81201

Phone: 719-539-1826
Email: jacpowellbresnannet

Category: Visual Artist, Performing Artist, Writer

Discipline: Photography, Newspaper/magazine articles, Nonfiction, Poetry, Instrumental music, Vocal music

Subject: human form, landscape, floral/botanical, folk, abstract/nonrepresentational

Format: Lecture, Demonstration, Workshop, Performance

Media: Film photography, Digital photography, Stringed Instruments

Population: High School, Community College, Continuing Education, Seniors

Volunteer Status: Lecture, Demonstration, Workshop, Performance

Phone Number: 719 539-6018

Mailing Address:
Ron Slaughter
P.O. Box 428
Poncha Springs, CO 81242

email: slauter53yahoocom

Category: Writer

Discipline: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Subject: Southwestern/western, history, nature/wildlife

Format: Performance

Volunteer Status: Performance

Mailing Address:
Laurie James
348 W Grand Ave

Salida, CO 81201

email: lauriejames8gmailcom

Category: Writer

Discipline: Newspaper/magazine articles, Nonfiction

Phone Number: 719-539-6153

Mailing Address:
Earle Kittleman
Salida, CO 81201

Other Information: press releases, radio/TV PSAs, promotions, newspaper and magazine articles

email: ekittlemanqcom

Category: Visual Artist, Writer

Discipline: Fine Arts, Graphic Arts, Painting, Photography, Web design/digital media, Newspaper/magazine articles, Fiction, Nonfiction, Film/Video

Subject: Southwestern/western, landscape, floral/botanical, nature/wildlife

Media: Acrylic, Mixed media, Film photography, Digital photography

Web Address: frankallnutt.com

Mailing Address: Frank Allnutt

Salida, CO 81201

Other Information: Frank Allnutt began his creative career with Walt Disney. A best-selling author of books on Star Wars and other movies.

Curtis Killorn

Category: Visual Artist, Writer

Discipline: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Sculpture, Newspaper/magazine articles, Fiction

Subject: landscape

Format: Demonstration

Media: Drawing, Watercolor/cassein

Population: Continuing Education, Department of Corrections, Social Services

Volunteer Status: Demonstration

Phone Number: 719-539-6211

Email: markwoodenskicom

Mailing Address:
Curtis Killorn
8225 Spruce Street
Salida, CO 81201

Other Information: Excited about our growing community of creatives here in this beautiful valley.

email: curtiskillornbresnannet

Flaming Tree

Burning Man - The Green Man 2007

Artist Summary: I’m trained as a field ecologist, and studying the interrelationships between the species that form the community of the land will always be a passion.

But over the years while I mapped grizzly bear habitat, wildfire patterns and sagebrush communities, I came to realize I loved telling the stories behind the data more than collecting those data.

I’m the author of twelve books that explore nature, the community of the land, humans included. My work has appeared in magazines and newspapers from Audubon and Popular Mechanics to High Country News and the Los Angeles Times – and has been heard on the Martha Stewart Living Radio Network.

I’ve taught workshops at colleges, universities, and writing festivals from University of California-Riverside and Miami University of Ohio to Wofford College in South Carolina, as well as at home and online. Audiences as diverse as the International Xeriscape Conference, Collegiate Peaks Forum, Monte Vista Crane Festival, and the Walking Words Writing Festival have called my talks “inspiring” and “insightful.” I coach individual writers, review manuscripts for university presses, and contribute to “The Perch,” the blog of Audubon magazine, and Story Circle Network’s “HerStories” as well as my own blog (susanjtweit.typepad.com).

Discipline: Writer
Subject: Non-Fiction

Website Address: susanjtweit.com

Mailing Address:
Susan J Tweit
P.O. Box 578
Salida, CO 81201

Phone: 719-530-0249
Email: infosusanjtweitcom  (infosusanjtweitcom)