C enizo Journal
Volume 5 Number 1
C ONTRI B UTORS
Charles Angell lives near Ruidosa. Exploring
the Big Bend area is both his hobby and his occu-
pation. e-mail:charles@angellexpeditions.com.
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 treas-
ured Big Bend for over 30 years.
e-mail: jnance@texas.net Music To Your Ears
Walle Conoly, born in Texas, has devoted his
life to art. He earned a BFA and MA and has
taught art for 46 years at St. Edward’s University
in Austin. e-mail: wallec@stedwards.edu Barbara Novovitch worked as an editor/
reporter for Reuters international news in
Washington, New York, Hong Kong and Paris.
She covered West Texas for the New York Times
and lives in Marathon. e-mail: bbnovo@gmail.com. 203 E Holland Ave, Alpine
Jack Copeland, medical doctor, restaurateur,
writer and Marfa Chamber board member is
ever-busy making Marfa more fun to live in.
e-mail:jackandlisa@sbcglobal.net Luc Novovitch is a former news photographer
for Reuters, AFP and Gamma agencies. See his
travel and documentary photographs on the
internet. Web: offiwent.com Phyllis Dunham writes on music, food, travel
and adventure. She spends weekends hiking and
exploring the Big Bend.
e-mail: phyllis_dunham@yahoo.com Ron Payne spends summers in Ohio and win-
ters as a park host at Big Bend National Park
where he gathers oral histories and meets inter-
esting people. e-mail: ronaldgenepayne@gmail.com. Danielle Gallo is a writer, editor and graphic
designer who has recently returned to Marathon
from a sojourn in the El Paso area.
e-mail: caveat5@hotmail.com Ellen Ruggia is a botanical artist and graphic
designer. She and her husband, Chris, have oper-
ated their graphics business in Alpine since 1997.
Web: vastgraphics.com Jim Glendinning, an Oxford-educated Scot,
lives in Alpine. The story of his travels, Footloose
Scot, has just been published as has Legendary Locals
of the Big Bend & Davis Mountains for Arcadia Press.
e-mail: jimglen2@sbcglobal.net Jim Sage grew up on a dry land farm in
Montana and, after muddling through the next
69 years, retired south of Alpine to enjoy a mag-
nificent view of Cathedral Mountain.
e-mail:sage@bigbend.net James Henrickson is a research fellow in
Integrative Biology at the UT Austin Plant
Resources Center. He provided the botanical
drawings for A. Michael Powell’s Trees and Shrubs
of the Trans-Pecos and for this issue of Cenizo.
e-mail: henrickson@mail.utexas.edu Nelson Sager still teaches part-time at Sul Ross
State University after retiring in 2011. His poems
have appeared in New Texas, ISLE, and a chap-
book, Hawk on a Wire.
e-mail: nsager5@sbcglobal.net
Bonita Barlow, Connecticut native, has been an
artist in New Mexico for 40 years. She was
recently an artist in residence at the International
Woman’s Foundation at Building 98 in Marfa.
e-mail: bonita.barlow@gmail.com
Martha Hughes, artist, photographer and
writer, moved to Marfa from Austin in 2004. Her
new book of photographs, Non-iconic Marfa, is
available at blurb.com and Marfa Book
Company. e-mail: martha@marthahughes.com
Jeff Keeling is a Fort Worth native working on
his masters in Biology at Sul Ross. He hopes his
research on the flora of the Davis Mountains
Preserve will lead to botanical research in South
America. e-mail: jkee675@sulross.edu
Jessica Lutz, artist and native Texan, left the
bright lights of New York City and National
Geographic for the stars and space of West Texas.
Web: jessicalutz.com
C.M. Mayo, El Paso native and Mexico City res-
ident, is at work on a book about far West Texas.
Her book, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
(Unbridled Books), was named a Library Journal
Best Book of 2009. Web: cmmayo.com
Bob Miles is a third generation native of the
Davis Mountains area and a retired Texas Parks
Laura Smith lives in the Adirondack
Mountains in Upstate New York. Her passion is
photographing children going about their daily
lives. e-mail: lsart@hotmail.com
Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas poet laureate,
has published 13 collections of poetry, including
A Murder of Crows (Virtual Artists Collective,
2011). e-mail: poetldt@sbcglobal.net
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Clarence Wolfshohl has published in many
small-press journals, including, recently, Houston
Literary Review. His latest poetry chapbook is Season
of Mangos (Adastra Press, 2009).
e-mail: wolfshohl@hotmail.com
Cover: "Lucy and Muñeca" by Laura Smith. This
image was part of the Shooting Alpine photo
competition.
Occasional Art: Ellen Ruggia; “Leaves” pencil
on paper 3 by 5 inches
Copy editor: Danielle Gallo
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