BARBARA ROGERS has been writing and teaching others to write for more than 30 years. She is a published author, prize-winning poet, dual winner of the Poet Laureate's Poetry Award and prize winning short story writer. She is a charter member of River Valley Writers, Poets Roundtable, American Poets, Toastmasters, and she does public speaking and holds workshops for new writers, memoir and life story writers. Her novel Snake Dance is based on the memories of her mother.
JOYCE RAPIER's column, "Whose Life Is It, Anyway?" had a lengthy run in The Press-Argus-Courier in Crawford County, and her short stories have appeared in Chicken Soup For The Soul and other books in the Chicken Soup series. Her books, Windy John's Me N' Tut, as well as Whisper My Name/House On Talbot Street and her latest release Full Circle are available through Amazon.com and your favorite bookstore.
KAREN BREWER is an award-winning writer with work published in several local and national magazines, newspapers and online ezines. Writing as Anne Elwick, her first novel We Don't Say Goodbye has been well received, and she is currently working on two more novels. A member of River Valley Writers, Wizards of Words, Romance Writers of America, Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., and Mid-America Authors, she also participates in The Sassy Survivors group of The Red Hat Society.
ABBE’ ALICE KAY HORTON is an Ordained, Licensed Christian minister, published author (Prayer Papers © 1996), Spiritual Advisor, tutor, pastel artist, poet, professional public speaker, member Toastmasters, and River Valley Writers, and daily journals her observations of the human condition.
WAYNE HANCOCK is the author of Gotcha! A Murder In Warrensburg. It is a suspense tale that takes the reader back to the depression era of southern Missouri, when life was much simpler, but not without complications. In this well-written debut novel, the reader moves from the innocence of youth through the tangled web of racism, adultery, and murder. Mr. Hancock is now retired and says this novel has been "in the making" for more than seventy years. The Unlikely Pedator was released in 2007, and 30 Days In May was released in 2008.
E.L. "Rocky Rochester is a cajun that has settled in Arkansas, but his heart is really in the old west. He has written several more western novels since the publication of his first effort, The Shadow Riders, was released.