Steve Yates is author of the new Civil War novel, Morkan’s Quarry, released in early summer, 2010. An MFA graduate…
Marcel Wisznia’s dedication to New Orleans is visible from the ground up. An entrepreneur, community leader, developer, architect, risk taker,…
Jacqueline J. West, Ph.D of Santa Fe, NM received her doctorate from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is…
Ken Wells, acclaimed journalist and novelist, grew up deep in Cajun bayou country on the banks of Bayou Black about…
Rebecca Wells—Number One New York Times bestselling author of Little Altars Everywhere, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Ya-Yas in…
Rob Magnuson Smith was raised in Worcestershire, England and in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. He was graduated from Pitzer…
Brian Schneider, who will be presenting a paper on the Literature of War & Collateral Damage during Words & Music,…
Kathryn Pratt Russell, Ph.D. is among academics who will be presenting papers during Words & Music, 2010. She will be…
Josh Russell was born Thanksgiving Day, 1968, in Carbondale, IL, and raised in Normal, IL. Russell received his MFA from…
Maurice Carlos Ruffin, a native New Orleanian, is a founding member of the Peauxdunque Writers’ Alliance, a multi-genre writers group…