Cenizo Journal
Volume 1 Number 2
CONTRIB UTOR S
Steve Anderson is the host of Marfa Public
Radio’s weekly “Literary Hour” and also con-
tributes book reviews for the show’s “Book
Notes” segment. He lives with his wife, Sarah, in
Calamity Creek, just south of Alpine, where
they try to ranch grapes. Steve has taught phi-
losophy and law as an adjunct at SMU. e-mail:
steve.anderson@airmail.net
Charles Angell grew up in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area and has been a resident of the Big
Bend for eight years. He works to know as much
Texas trivia as possible in conjunction with his
business, Angell Expeditions. He lives near
Ruidosa. angellexpeditions.com
Avram Dumitrescu’s art has been featured
in the Southern Review, Gastronomica and MFK
Fisher among the Pots and Pans (University of
California Press). Visit his gallery in Alpine or
onlineavram.com
Jim Glendinning was born on a Scottish farm
and educated at Oxford University. Widely trav-
eled, he currently plans and escorts tours to
Mexico and Scotland and writes local travel
guides. mexicosmallgroups.com
Cyndi Hughes is the executive director of the
Writers’ League of Texas and was the founding
director of the Texas Book Festival.
She lives in Austin. writersleague.org,
writersleagueoftexas.wordpress.com
j vigil martinez’ work includes landscape
design and development as well as writing. He
resides in Marfa. e-mail: jmartinez101@sbc-
global.net, jim-martinez.com
Bob Miles is a third-generation native of the
Davis Mountains area and a retired Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department park superintendent.
He studies and writes about area history and
lives with his wife Edith in Fort Davis. email:
rmiles@yahoo.com
Jessica Moore is a former Lannan writer and
recipient of a 2008 PEN Translation Award.
Her most recent work is a collection of poems
on love and grief, closely linked to her translation
of Turkana Boy by Jean-François Beauchemin.
e-mail: mooretranslation@gmail.com
Laurence Parent was born in New Mexico.
After practicing petroleum engineering for six
years, he became a full-time freelance photogra-
pher and writer specializing in landscape, travel
and nature subjects. See his work on the Web:
laurenceparent.com
June Redford Van Cleef ’s book Texas
Outback: Ranching on the Last Frontier is available at
Front Street Books in Alpine and the Marfa
Book Co. She is represented by AfterImage
Gallery in Dallas, and her work is shown across
the state. email: junerr7@yahoo.com
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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Nora Seymour is a writer and editor with
a background in magazine publishing. She lives
in Calamity Creek and hosts “Choral Sundays”
on KRTS Marfa Public Radio. e-mail:
noraseymour@gmail.com
James King, Agent
Lauren Stedman is a native of Fort Davis,
world traveled and educated as a designer,
typographer and printer. Her private press busi-
ness Menagerie Press is located in the Terlingua
Ghostown. e-mail: menageriep@bigbend.net
Protecting Clients. Conserving the Land.
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432.386.2823 • kinglandandwater.com
CEDAR ROSE
Andrew Stuart moved to West Texas in 2000.
He lived in Alpine and Marfa, working at
The Desert-Mountain Times and then Marfa Public
Radio before moving to rural Hudspeth
County with his dog Eli earlier this year. email:
hcherald@dellcity.com
F LORAL D ESIGN • G IFTS • C ANDLES
Lonn Taylor is an historian and writer who
moved to Fort Davis in 2002 after spending the
final 20 years of his professional career at the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
He grew up in Fort Worth. He can be reached
at taylorw@fortdavis.net
Megan Wilde writes, studies biology and tends
four cats and two equines with her artist
husband in Alpine. More of her work is at
wildewildeweb.com
W EDDINGS
Cover: The Rio Grande stretches 1,885 miles
with beauty and sadness along its way. Here,
Douglas Fir on Crest at Sunset by Laurence Parent;
photographed in Cibola National Forest, Sandia
Mountains, Sandia Crest, N. M.
Occasional art: Pen and ink on board,
2 inches by 3 inches, Wendy Lynn Wright
Proof reading and copy editing:
Andrew Stuart
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Sasha Watson is a writer and translator cur-
rently living in Marfa. Her first novel for young
adults, Vidalia in Paris, was published by Viking
Press in 2008. Visit Sasha at sashawatson.com,
and e-mail her at sasha_watson@yahoo.com
Wendy Lynn Wright has been a graphic artist
for two decades in New York, Florida and
Texas. She is also a watercolor painter and lives
in Casa Piedra. wendylynnwright.com
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