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Cenizo
First Quarter 2018
C ONTRI B UTORS
Jimmy Counts is an old school poet com-
posing with a pen and notebook. His child-
hood home on a ranch in West Texas provid-
ed fodder for many poems. He has performed
live, on radio and on TV where he was “The
Official Cowboy Poet” leading to a CD, “A
New Brand of Cowboy Poetry.” “A Hero
Came Home Today,” was inspired by the
death of a soldier who died in Iraq. e-mail:
Contact him at Jimmycounts1@outlook.com.
Laurel Holman is a member of the
Association of Texas Professional Educators,
arts instructor in Presidio High School and
active civic member. She is the driving force
behind the annual Presidio Fine Arts Festival
and a beloved teacher and mentor to a
generation of young artists. e-mail:
lholman@presidio-isd.net
Voni Glaves is an artist, a writer and a rider.
After 31 years as a teacher of students with
special needs in the Midwest, she retired and
found her heart’s home in a modern Adobe in
Big Bend. She writes and photographs for the
Big Bend Gazette. She is one of two women to
have ridden over a Million Miles on BMW
motorcycles. Her photography is featured at
the Earth and Fire Gallery in the Ghostown of
Terlingua. e-mail: voni@bigbend.net
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
Jeremy Gonzalez is a staff reporter for the
Fort Stockton Pioneer. He always has a cup
of coffee on his desk. His wife is his cure for
writer’s block, and if he were an animal, he
would be a chameleon: colorful, adaptive and
chill. e-mail: tigerwithcoffee@gmail.com
Pat O’Bryan documents Terlingua Music
and Life at TerlinguaMusic.com and pro-
duces music for films and videos from his
cabin near Terlingua, Texas. He studied pho-
tography at the University of Texas and elec-
tronic music composition at the University of
North Texas and the University of Texas. A
recovering professional musician, he is the
author of several books, including the photo
book, Terlingua Music. e-mail: koanwrangler @
gmail.com
C. W. (Bill) Smith is a writer, historian and
curator of the Terrell County Memorial
Museum. e-mail: wsmith1948@yahoo.com
K.B. Whitley was born and raised in rural
southwest Louisiana where the piney woods of
East Texas quit dribbling over the Sabine and
Calcasieu rivers, and the flat rice farming
Cajun country begins. He retired to Marfa in
1998. He has lived in Marfa for near 19 years,
where he has become a strong political activist
and a writer. e-mail: whitley.ken@gmail.com
Carolyn Brown Zniewski started her
publishing career at age nine, publishing a
one-page neighborhood newsletter called The
Circle. From 1992 – 2006 she wrote a recipe
column for two neighborhood newspapers in
Minneapolis, MN. In 2013, she started
publishing the Cenizo. e-mail: publisher@cenizo-
journal.com
Maya Brown Zniewski is an herbalist and
soapmaker who enjoys frequent visits to the
Big Bend area. Her handmade salves, soaps
and
tinctures
are
available
at:
mayamadesoap.com. e-mail: mayamadeapothe-
cary @gmail.com
Cover: Untitled collograph by Alan Vannoy,
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Copy editor: Rani Birchfield
SUBSCRIPTIONS
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SUBMISSION
Deadline for advertising and editorial for the Second Quarter 2018 issue: February 15, 2018.
Art, photographic and literary works may be e-mailed to the Editor at editor@cenizojournal.com
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