Julianne Couch

Julianne moved to Laramie from Kansas City in 1992 in order to live in and write about Wyoming and the West. Her essays have appeared in publications including High Country News; Peaks and Plains; Owen Wister Review; Heritage of the Great Plains; Hard Ground: Writing the Rockies; Ahead of Their Time: Wyoming Voices for the Wilderness and The Gleaners: Eco-Essays on Re-cycling, Re-Use, and Living Lightly on the Land. She earned an MA in English from Emporia State University in 1984and has been a lecturer in the English department at the University of Wyoming since 1998. What she did in the intervening years is anyone’s guess.

Her book, Jukeboxes & Jackalopes: A Wyoming Bar Journey (Pronghorn Press), came out in 2007 and is an intimate look at the places and people that make watering holes of Wyoming so unique. For more information on the book, go to www.myspace.com/wyojulianne, or www.pronghorn.org

Jeffe Kennedy

Jeffe Kennedy took the crooked road to writing, stopping off at neurobiology, religious studies and environmental consulting before her creative writing began appearing in places like Redbook, Mountain Living, Wyoming Wildlife and Under the Sun. She has been a Ucross Foundation Fellow (2001) and received first place from Pronghorn Press for their Dry Ground (2002) collection. She is also a Wyoming Arts Council roster artist and recipient of the 2005 Doubleday Award and 2007 Fellowship for Poetry. Jeffe has contributed to several anthologies, Drive: Women’s True Stories of the Open Road. (2002), Hard Ground (2003), Bombshells (2007) and an upcoming anthology on gleaning. Her first collection, Wyoming Trucks, True Love and the Weather Channel was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2004. She is currently at work on a speculative fiction novel and lives in Wyoming, with two Maine coon cats, a border collie, and a fish pathologist.

www.jeffekennedy.com

Jason Burge 

Jason Burge is a Mississppi boy who wandered a little far North, but is glad he did. He finished his MFA in fiction from the University of Wyoming, and he is getting close to finishing a draft of his novel, My Mulatto Foundling. His favorite author is Barry Hannah, so much so, he named his band the Sons of Hannah.

To hear his songs go to:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=93146814

Paul Bergstraesser

Randy Koch

Randy Koch is from somewhere between Texas and Minnesota. He's a poet working on his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Wyoming. He's actually getting credit toward the degree by interning with Speaking of Writing.