About the Author
Page Lambert’s writing is found inside monumental sculptures at the Denver Art Museum, online at Huffington Post, and in dozens of anthologies about the West. Nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, she designs and teaches graduate writing courses for the University of Denver's professional creative writing program. Recently published works include poems “Reclamation” (Summer/Winter 2020, Langscape Magazine/Terralingua), “Alone at Pranzo’s” (Summer 2020, Ocotillo Review/Kallisto Gaia Press), essays “Not for Sale” (Langscape Magazine, 2018), “The Rural West” (The Light Shines from the West, Fulcrum Books, 2018), and “Deerstalking” (Memoir Magazine, Guns and People Issue, 2018).
Author of the memoir In Search of Kinship (Fulcrum Publishing), hailed by the Rocky Mountain News when it was released as one of the summer’s hottest reads, and the novel Shifting Stars (a Mountains and Plains Book Award finalist) by Tor/Forge Publishing, her essays and poems are found in dozens of anthologies, including the Willa award-winning Writing Down the River, and West of 98: Living and Writing the American West. Other awards include two Fellowships for Literary Excellence from the Wyoming Arts Council, “Best Essay of the Year Award” from the Colorado Authors’ League; and the Orlando Nonfiction Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation, and the 2015 Writer’s Studio Best Fiction Award.
Lambert has been leading outdoor adventures and writing workshops for twenty-four years, sometimes working in partnership with organizations such as True Nature Journeys, The Women’s Wilderness Institute, the Grand Canyon Field Institute, and the Aspen Writers’ Foundation. In 2006, Oprah’s O magazine featured her River Writing Journeys for Women as “One of the top six great all-girl getaways of the year.”
Co-founder of Women Writing the West, Lambert is a member of the International League of Conservation Writers, an advisor for the Rocky Mountain Land Library, and a senior associate with the Children & Nature Network. She writes the blog All Things Literary/All Things Natural from her Colorado home in the mountains west of Denver.
Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (Atria, 2012) where she writes about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States. The much-anticipated sequel, A Dream Called Home (Atria), was released on October 2, 2018. Her other works include the novels, Across a Hundred Mountains, (Atria, 2006) and Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press, 2009) which were published to critical acclaim. Reyna has received an American Book Award, the El Premio AztlánLiterary Award, and the International Latino Book Award. In 2012, she was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards, and in 2015 she was honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. https://reynagrande.com/
Founding/managing editor of Rabid Oak, poet Matthew Woodman will read from his work. His poems and stories appear in Sonora Review, Oxidant/Engine, S/WORD, Sierra Nevada Review, and Oblong, and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. Links to his publications can be found at: https://matthewwoodman.com/publications/.
Brendan Constantine is a nationally recognized poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many of the nation’s poetry standards, including Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, Virginia Quarterly, Rattle, Field, Smartish Pace, and Chautauqua. New work can be found in Public Pool and the American Journal of Poetry.
His first book, ‘Letters to Guns’ (2009 Red Hen Press), is now taught in schools across the country. His most recent collection is ‘Dementia, My Darling’ (2016 Ren Hen Press) and draws upon his work with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project.
Mr. Constantine has received grants and commissions from the Getty Museum, James Irvine Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on NPR's All Things Considered, KPFK's Inspiration House, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently teaches creative writing at the Windward School.
Author and professor Brian Evenson,selected as the 2016 Walter W. Stiern Library PG&E Writer in Residence, will read from his workon Tuesday, May 10that 7:00 p.m. in the Dezember Reading Roomat StiernLibrary on the CSU Bakersfield campus. This event is free and open to the public.Mr. Evenson is the fifth author to be named to the PG&E-funded writing mentorship.Previous authors were Angie Chau, Richard Collins, Marissa Silver, and John Hampsey. PG&Ehas beena longtime corporate friend of the Stiern Library and provided itwith a substantial grant in 2012 to start the program, which is free to local writers who have a fiction or memoir project they are working on.
John Hampsey, the 2015 Walter Stiern Library PG&E Writer in Residence, will present a reading in the Dezember Reading Room on Thursday, May 7, at 7 p.m. Dr. Hampsey is the author of the poignant boyhood memoir Kaufman’s Hill, and numerous works of fiction. He will be signing books at the event. Three autographed copies will be presented as door prizes. Light refreshments will be served.
