About the Authors: Yvonne Carpenter’s poetry has appeared in literary journals and published in two volumes, To Capture Fine Spirits (Haystack Publishing) and Barbed Wire and Paper Dolls (Village Press). She and her husband raise cattle and wheat on a Custer County farm. Nancy Goodwin has served as an editor of Shakespeare Magazine, the curriculum editor of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Shakespeare Set Fire, and a curriculum designer for Hallmark Channel. Having lived in Western Oklahoma for only 50 years, she’s considered a newcomer. Catherine McCraw is a speech-language pathologist in Western Oklahoma. Her poems have appeared in over 15 publications. In 2005, she was awarded the Baskerville Publisher’s Prize from descant magazine. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005. Her poems have appeared in Fifty descant Years, the literary journal of TCU anthology and the Atlanta Review anthology, from which she received tow International Merit Awards. Clynell Reinschmiedt has enjoyed a long teaching career in Oklahoma, teaching every grade from kindergarten through grade 12, as well as graduate and postgraduate courses in English and Library Science at OU and UCO. Carol Waters is a transplanted Oklahoman, having lived in the state since 1996. She calls Cordell home now. She’s a Presbyterian pastor and serves a small church in Clinton. She considers poetry writing a spiritual discipline. The mission of the Oklahoma Center for the Book is to promote the work of Oklahoma authors, to promote the literary heritage of the state, and to encourage reading for pleasure by Oklahomans of all ages.
Front row, (L-R). Cathy McCraw, Yvonne Carpenter, Clynell Reinschmeidt. Back row, Nancy Goodwin, Carol Waters. Photo kindly provided by Clynell Reinschmeidt
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