Cenizo Jou rnal
Spring 2020 • Volume 12, Number 2
A 2nd Hand Specialty
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Cenizo
Spring 2020
Kleo Belay grew up on the coast of
Maine and moved to Terlingua in 2003
where she first gathered her skills and
passion for outdoor exploration. Since
then she has lived and worked
throughout the Big Bend Region and
currently lives in Alpine. Email:
Kleobelay@gmail.com
Rani Birchfield is a writer at large in
the Big Bend region. Born in
Kathmandu, she inherited the
wanderlust of her parents and loves
travel, food and wine exploration, and
meeting odd folks of the planet. Have a
story to tell or a hot tip? Email:
aed@cenizojournal.com
Becca Bright is a writer and student
currently living in Iowa City, Iowa, but
was born and raised in Austin. Her
parents moved to the Fort Davis area
about five years ago, and she spends
much of her winters and summers
there. Her poems, “Postcards from
Agave,” are based on the writing style
of postcards. She considers her lines as
small love letters to, and from far West
Texas. Email: labeccabright@gmail.com
Carolyn Brown Zniewski started
publishing at age nine, with a
neighborhood newsletter called The
Circle. From 1992-2006 she wrote a
recipe column for two newspapers in
Minneapolis, MN and from 2013 to
2019 was the publisher of the Cenizo
Journal.
Tom Curry was born and raised in
Coleman, Texas. An army veteran who
traveled all over Europe, he moved to
Austin in 1975 and became an award-
winning illustrator. He and his wife
Susan moved to Alpine in 1993, where
he began working with papercrete in
addition to his illustration work. He
and Susan work out of their papercrete
studio on Murphy Street when they’re
not enjoying their cabin near Terlingua.
Email: tomcurrystudio@gmail.com
Judy Eron has lived for 25 years in the
off-the-grid house she helped build on
Terlingua Ranch. She and her partner
Charlie are two-thirds of “The
Terlingua Fill-Harmonic Symphony”
that entertains there. They escape the
desert heat by migrating yearly to the
ocean in Washington state where their
band “Double J and the Boys” performs.
She is the author of What Goes Up:
Surviving the Manic Episode of a Loved
One. Email: judyeron@yahoo.com
Danielle Gallo is a writer who is
proud to be the editor-in-chief of the
Cenizo Journal. She came to the area in
2002 and currently lives in Marathon
with her family. e-mail: editor@
cenizojournal.com
David Winslow is an Alpine artist
with an eye for landscapes and
architecture. Most of the photographic
images he takes are from the Southwest
Texas area and around his other home
in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. His
work can be seen at his gallery in
Alpine, Galeria Manana. E-mail:
dewinslow@aol.com
On the Cover: Tim Oliver is a
Landscape Architect and owner of a
design/build landscape firm in
Lubbock, Texas. He graduated with a
Bachelors degree in landscape
architecture in 1983 from Texas Tech
University.
Tim holds Signature membership in
the National Watercolor Society and the
Western Federation of Watercolor
Societies. He is an exhibiting associate
member of the American Watercolor
Society, Outdoor Painters Society,
Southwestern Watercolor Society,
American Impressionist Society,
American Plains Artists and Plein Air
Painters of New Mexico.
Tim’s paintings are collected both
regionally and nationally and he has
won numerous juried exhibitions,
invitational exhibition and plein air
competition awards. He is a past
instructor and field painter at The Plein
Air Convention and Expo and is active
in doing watercolor demos and
workshops across West Texas. His work
has appeared on the cover of Watercolor
Artist Magazine and been featured in
Plein Air Magazine and Art of the West
Magazine.