Summer 2007 - the Wyoming State Library

Wyoming Book Festival: Meet the authorsThe Wyoming Book Festival has a great lineup of authors, presenters and panelmoderators. You’ll find features on many of them throughout this issue of the WyomingLibrary Roundup. Here’s the highlights on the rest of the list. Find their complete biosand pictures on our festival web site at www.wyomingbookfestival.org/authors.html.Lee AlleySee article on page 23.Bess ArnoldBess Arnold is a Cheyenne freelancewriter who has authored or co-authoredseveral books about the Union Pacificrailroad and depot, including her mostrecent: Union Pacific: Saving a Big Boy andOther Railroad Stories.Speaking: 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Home &Garden/Non-Fiction TentBook signing: 1:30 p.m., SaturdayCraig ArnoldCraig Arnold teaches and directs theVisiting Writers Series at the Universityof Wyoming MFA Program. His firstbook Shells won the 1998 Yale Seriesof Younger Poets award. Among hishonors are a National Endowment forthe Arts fellowship. He is currentlyworking on a book about volcanoes andthe end of the world as we know it.Speaking: 9:45 a.m., Saturday, Poetry TentBook signing: 11:30 a.m., SaturdayPanel: Moderator, Poetry in the AmericanWest, 2:15 p.m., Saturday, Poetry TentC.J. BoxAn avid outdoorsman, C.J. Box writesmysteries set in Wyoming and featuringgame warden Joe Pickett. The seventhbook in the nationally best-selling andaward-winning series, FreeFire, wasreleased in 2007 to critical acclaim. Hisnovels have been translated into 12languages.Speaking: Noon, Saturday, Mystery & CrimeTentBook signing: 1:30 p.m., SaturdayPanel: Getting Published: A Panel Discussion,4:30 p.m., Friday, Depot; and MysteriousWays, 10 a.m., Saturday, Plains HotelLarry K. BrownFrom The Hog Ranches of Wyoming to hismost recent Bad in the Good Old Days,Larry K. Brown writes with a senseof humor about the West’s less-savorycharacters. His writing credits includeseven books and numerous articles,including in the journals of the National4Wyoming Library Roundup • Summer 2007and Western Outlaw and Lawmanassociations.Speaking: 9:45 a.m., Saturday, Mystery &Crime TentBook signing: 11 a.m., SaturdayPanel: Crime and Punishment, Noon,Saturday, Plains HotelB.J. BuckleyPoet and writer B.J. Buckley is a nativeWyomingite now living and writing inMontana. She has worked with childrenin Arts in Schools Programs throughoutthe Rocky Mountain West for morethan 30 years. Her most recent book,with fellow Wyoming poet DawnSenior-Trask, is Moonhorses And The RedBull, from Pronghorn Press.Speaking: 10:30 a.m., Saturday, LaramieCounty Library-Amphitheater; and Noon,Saturday, Poetry TentBook signing: 11:30 a.m., SaturdayChip CarlsonChip Carlson, a 30-year Cheyenneresident, is an acknowledged authorityon Tom Horn, Wyoming’s infamouscattle detective. Twenty years ofCarlson’s research has resulted in threebooks, the most recent of which wonthe prestigious Annual Award forhistory/biography from the WyomingState Historical Society.Speaking: 10:30 p.m., Saturday, Mystery &Crime Tent.Book signing: 1:30 p.m., SaturdayPanel: Crime and Punishment, Noon,Saturday, Plains HotelBarbara ChattonBarbara Chatton is a professor at theUniversity of Wyoming where shehas taught courses in children’s andyoung adult literature for the past 25years. She writes and speaks frequentlyon children’s poetry, literature ofthe American West, and the valueof reading and literature across thecurriculum.Panel: What the Kids are Reading, 10 a.m.,Saturday, Laramie County Library-WillowMargaret CoelMargaret Coel is the author of theWind River series of mystery novels setamong the Arapahos on the Wind RiverReservation. The Girl With Braided Hair,13th in the series, will be publishedin September 2007. Her novels haveappeared on numerous bestseller lists,including the New York Times, the LosAngeles Times, and the Denver Post.Speaking: 9 a.m., Saturday, Mystery &Crime TentBook signing: 11:30 a.m., SaturdayPanel: Mysterious Ways, 10 a.m., Saturday,Plains HotelGaydell CollierGaydell Collier has been ranching andwriting in Wyoming for more than 50years. She is one of the three co-editorsof the Wind series of books: Leaninginto the Wind, Woven on the Wind andCrazy Woman Creek. She is a recipient ofthe Governor’s Arts Award and a longtimemember of Bearlodge Writers andWyoming Writers.Book signing: Wind Books, 12:30 p.m.,SaturdayPanel: Wind Books, 1:30 p.m., Saturday,Wyoming & the West/Road Trips TentJulianne CouchSee article on page 18.Beverly CoxBeverly Cox comes from an oldWyoming ranching family. She is thefood editor of Native Peoples Magazine,and the author of 13 cookbooks,including Spirit of the West, Cooking fromRanch House and Range, winner of a JuliaChild award in 1997. Her latest bookco-authored with food photographerMartin Jacobs, is Eating Cuban, 120Authentic Recipes from the Street of Havanato American Shores.Speaking: 9 a.m., Saturday, Home &Garden/Non-Fiction TentBook signing: 10:30 a.m., SaturdayNancy CurtisCurtis is the publisher of High PlainsPress in Glendo, Wyoming. She is also