C enizo Journal
Volume 4 Number 3
C ONTRI B UTORS
Charles Angell lives near Ruidosa. Exploring the
Big Bend area is both his hobby and his occupation.
e-mail:charles@angellexpeditions.com
Mary Baxter has captured the beauty of the
Chihuahuan Desert on her canvases for many
years. Currently working in Marathon, she will
move her studio to Marfa in the next few months.
Web: baxtergallery.com
Jennifer Boomer lives in Alpine. Her most recent
published photographs can be seen in the New York
Times Magazine, Monocle and Marie Claire. email:
info@jenniferboomer.com
R. T. Castleberry is a widely published poet and
co-editor/publisher of the poetry magazine Curbside
Review. He’s been featured in Travois ~ An Anthology
of Texas Poetry and other anthologies. His 2010
chapbook is Arriving at the Riverside.
e-mail: rcastl2335@aol.com
Walle Conoly, born in Texas, has devoted his life
to art. He earned a B.F.A. and M.A. and has taught
art for 46 years at St. Edward’s University in Austin.
e-mail: wallec@stedwards.edu
Phyllis Dunham writes on music, food, travel and
adventure. A transplanted Austinite with family
roots in the area, she spends weekends hiking and
exploring the Big Bend.
e-mail: phyllis_dunham@yahoo.com
Jim Glendinning was born on a Scottish farm
and educated at Oxford University. Now living in
Alpine, he is presently working on his memoirs
about his travels to 136 countries over 50 years.
e-mail: jimglen2@sbcglobal.net.
Cathryn Hoyt, Ph.D., executive director of the
Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute, is an arche-
ologist, paleoecologist and a first-rate macro-pho-
tographer. e-mail: choyt@cdri.org
Bob Miles is a third-generation native of the Davis
Mountains area and a retired Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department park superintendent.
e-mail: rmilessr@yahoo.com.
Jean Nance is a naturalist and writer living in the
Hill Country near Austin. Born in West Texas, she
still feels the desert call and has treasured Big Bend
for over 30 years. e-mail: jnance@texas.net
Ron Payne spends winters as a park host at Big
Bend National Park and summers in Ohio. After
years of writing sermons, he is now content to write
commentary and poetry.
e-mail: ronaldgenepayne@gmail.com
J. Travis Roberts Jr., retired engineer, historian
and a fourth-generation citizen of Brewster County,
serves on many historical boards and has written
articles on the history and settlement of the area.
e-mail: jtrj37@rionet.coop
Jim Sage spent his early years on a dry land farm
in south-central Montana and, after muddling
through the next 69 years, retired south of Alpine to
enjoy a magnificent view of Cathedral Mountain.
e:-mail:sage@bigbend.net
Allison Smith, photojournalist, left the Dallas
Morning News in 2004, to pursue freelance photogra-
phy for editorial and commercial clients and fine-art
photography. Her photos have appeared in Texas
Monthly and the New York Times and hang in the
Dallas Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine
Arts in Houston, among others.
Web: www.allisonvsmith.com
Wade Thompson teaches English at Tarrant
County College in Fort Worth. He is a Ph.D. candi-
date in English at Texas A&M Commerce. He has
been visiting and writing about the Big Bend since
childhood. e-mail: pik_orion@hotmail.com
Anatoly Tokar, a Ph.D. herpetologist and nature
photographer, is a native of Kiev, Ukraine. He
moved to the United States in 1997 and continued
his European and Asian travels, maintaining a focus
on wildlife and landscape photography.
Web: www.phototokar.com
Matt Walter is the historian at the Museum of the
Big Bend in Alpine and also teaches history at Sul
Ross State University. He is retired from the U.S.
Coast Guard. e-mail: mwalter@sulross.edu
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K.B. Whitley was born and raised in southwest
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Megan Wilde lives, writes and gardens in Alpine
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Cover: Detail – Elf Owl, Big Bend of Texas by
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