Cenizo Journal
Volume 2 Number 1
CONTR I B UTOR S
Charles Angell grew up in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area and has lived near Ruidosa for eight
years. He works to know as much Texas trivia as
possible in conjunction with his business, Angell
Expeditions. Web: angellexpeditions.com
Carol H. Fairlie is a professor of art at Sul Ross
State University. Her work is represented in
collections in the United States, Mexico, Japan,
and Europe. e-mail: fairlieh2o@sbcgloobal.net;
Web: fairliefinearts.com
Gene Fowler, Austin writer and performer, has
written Mavericks, Border Radio, Crazy Water and
Mystic Healers and Medicine Shows. He has appeared
at the Kennedy Center. His writing is in
TrueWest, Artspace and Texas Highways. e-mail:
genfo@email.com
Jeannie Gambill’s poetry has appeared in
Gulf Coast and The Weight of Addition: An Anthology
of Texas Poetry. She was a finalist in the Nimrod,
Ruth G. Hardman Poetry Competition.
She lives in Bellaire, Texas. e-mail:
jeanniegambill@comcast.net
Jim Glendinning was born on a Scottish farm
and educated at Oxford University. Widely trav-
eled, he currently plans and escorts tours to
Ireland and Scotland and writes local travel
guides. e-mail: jimglen2@sbcglobal.net; Web:
glendinningtours.com
Mark Kneeskern is an illustrator, photogra-
pher, graphic designer, painter and sculptor.
Mark lives in a bus in the desert outside Terlingua
and has a studio in the Terlingua Ghostown.
e-mail: muchorelax@gmail.com
Mike Marvins’ Big Bend photographs are in
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Amon
Carter Museum and the U.T. Harry Ransom
Center. His new book is Texas’ Big Bend: A
Photographic Adventure. e-mail: fotog@pdq.net;
Web: texasbigbend.com
Kate McKenna is a Fort Davis artist enchant-
ed by desert plants. She has done many graphite
drawings and several “life-size” oil paintings
of agave, yucca and cacti. She is a graduate
of the U.T. Austin art department. e-mail:
bigsky@texasmountains.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. e-mail:
rmilessr@yahoo.com
Jessica Moore is a former Lannan writer and
a 2008 PEN Translation Award winner. Her
first book is forthcoming in 2011 with
Talonbooks. Her work has appeared in
The Literary Review, Cenizo and The Antigonish
Review. e-mail: mooretranslation@gmail.com
Joel Nelson is a frequent participant in cowboy
poetry gatherings nationwide; he is also known
for his horse training skills. Joel was awarded a
2009 National Endowment for the Arts
National Heritage Fellowship. e-mail:
saddleup@bigbend.net
Gary Nored is a retired writer, teacher and pho-
tographer living in Alpine. He specializes in writ-
ing to help people understand complex subjects.
A budding naturalist, he volunteers at CDRI.
e-mail: gvnored@yahoo.com
Blair Pittman, a photojournalist since 1964,
has traveled the world with his camera. He lives
in Terlingua, where he writes stories about its
people and history. His current book is Tales from
the Terlingua Porch II. e-mail: blair@bigbend.net
Reba Cross Seals, a semi-retired teacher,
writer and artist, lives in Alpine. She works with
student teachers in West Texas schools and is a
member of the Texas Mountain Trail Writers
group. e-mail: rcrossseals@wildblue.net
C.W. (Bill) Smith is a carpenter, cabinetmaker,
tech guru, musician and printer. A Marathon
native, he taught science in public school and lives
in Sanderson with his wife Gail. e-mail:
wsmith1948@yahoo.com
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 Hudspeth County in
2009. e-mail: hcherald@dellcity.com
Lonn Taylor is a 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.
e-mail: taylorw@fortdavis.net
Larry D. Thomas was 2008 Texas poet
laureate. Poetry awards include Texas Review
Poetry Prizes (2004 and 2001), the 2004 Violet
Crown Award and the 2003 Western Heritage
Award. e-mail: poetldt@sbcglobal.net
Glenn Willeford has been a professor at the
Autonomous University of Chihuahua and was a
Texas sheriff in the 1980s. In Alpine, Willeford is
completing The Last Peace Officer, a novel. e-mail:
glennwilleford@yahoo.com
Matt Wright-Steel, a documentary photogra-
pher based in Austin, photographs his native
state, documenting his roots and the characters of
the Texas landscape. Web: wrightsteel.net
Cover: Mike Marvins: “December Snow in the
Chisos Basin.” From Texas’ Big Bend: A Photographic
Adventure.
Occasional art: Pen and ink on board,
2 inches by 3 inches, Carol Fairlie.
Copy editing: Andrew Stuart.
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