Wanting to read the writings of other authors? Here are a few of my friends who have also published books. All of these authors are talented and creative wordsmiths. Each have been writing for decades. My friends encompass different genres and styles.
Pick your favorite genre or be adventurous and try something new.
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Diane K. Boyd
A Woman Among Wolves
My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wild of Montana near Glacier National Park.
Boyd takes the reader on a wild ride from the early days of wolf research to the present-day challenges of wolf management across the globe, highlighting her interactions with an apes predator that captured her heart and her undying admiration. Her writing resonates with indomitable spirit as she explores the intricate balance of human and wolf coexistence.
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Thomas Rain Crowe
He is an internationally-published and recognized author, editor and translator of more than thirty books, including the multi-award winning nonfiction nature memoir Zoro’s Fields: My Life in the Appalachian Woods; and internationally acclaimed anthology of contemporary Celtic language poets entitled Writing the Wing: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry) and his collection of poetry The Laugharne Poems written at the Dylan Thomas boathouse in Laugharne, Wales in 1993 and 1995. He has been an editor of major literary and cultural journals and anthologies. He lived in San Francisco during the 1970’s. Crowe was an original member of the group responsible for the renaissance of Beatitude magazine. Since then he has been a longtime resident of the Southern Appalachians and lives in the Tuckasegee watershed and the “Little Canada” community of Jackson County in Western North Carolina.
NEW – just released!
New Natives Becoming Indigenous in a Time of Crisis & Transition
Presented in compelling prose and poetry, in which author Thomas Rain Crowe articulates hard-won wisdom regarding how we humans might live humbly in harmony with the natural and cultural history of our given or chosen place on Earth, New Natives serves as a sort of guidebook. Along with inspired images in this book contributed by photographer Simone Lipscomb, New Natives will be of considerable value to readers, as they may find a place in which they will be – feeling whole and free-like new natives. –Ted Olson, author of Blue Moon
After a long absence from the southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live alone deep in the North Carolina woods. This is Crowe’s chronicle of that time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing, modern-day transportation, or regular income. It is a Walden for today, paced to nature’s rhythms and cycles and filled with a wisdom one gains only through the pursuit of a consciously simple, spiritual, environmentally responsible life.
“The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. Starting From San Francisco measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets around poet and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970’s who used a small-press explosion to sustain and move beyond what their predecessors had inspired. The format here is interview and, with the commitment of one who was there and considerable sincerity, Crowe explores the dimensions of a flourishing literary excitement that deserves to be better known. The result is a singular history.” John Tytell, Beat-&=Beyond chronicler and author of numerous works including Naked Angels: Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation.
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Laurie Wilcox-Meyer
She lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where she often spots bears while hiking and meditating about her next poem. Her poems have appeared in The Great Smokies Review, Kakalak, Artemis Journal, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and Birdsong Anthology. Her chapbook Circling Silence was published in January, 2018 by Finishing Line Press. Her full-length book of poetry, Of Wilderness and Flight was published in March, 2018 by FootHills Publishing. She is Co-Founder of Poetry Pathways, a project intended to celebrate poetry and make poetry accessible along Asheville City Greenways.
The voice in Laurie Wilcox-Meyer’s Circling Silence is at once ethereal and simple. It puts me in mind of George Oppen – immaculate clarity, where a whisper, a glance, yield revelation in the exulted, often aching, mundane. She invokes Rumi in her wonderful poem, “His Sundown Syndrome,” and indeed there resides in each of these poems the binding, prayerful recognition, the lifted chant, of “The saint of every moment.” Such beautiful contemplative poems. Joseph Pathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2012-2014
Conversations in the Key of Blue is a season of wail, sigh, and dance. With eclectic poetic range that illuminates acute sensibility, Laurie Wilcox-Meyer offers provocative questions of what gets shifted and what come into view? Recognizable universal codes of both care-taking and care-giving sacrifice ancestral memory the global body and ownership create a visceral landscape of eco-poetics. These poems are declarations… deluge of detail, bold wit, intimate, and wounds that lift themselves off the page as testament. Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2019
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Greg Howell
He is a retired Pastor living in North Carolina. Looking For Wings is a beautifully written book. His voice draws you into the story. This is a tale that is hard to put down once you begin to read.
Fig Tree Federated Church has a checkered history. Established around the turn of the 20th Century as Fig Tree Covenant Church, the congregation split after 17-year-old Billy Bliss delivered the message one fateful Sunday morning.
Fast-forward a couple of generations to Brent Bent, Pastor of Fig Tree Federated Church. Brent faces numerous obstacles and roadblocks from belligerent and officious church members in his attempt to call the church to mission.
A flopping fish, a self-important evangelist who suggests burning down the church, homophobia, an intense rivalry between life-long friends, a honky-tonk piano player, an onion-and-garlic-breath wedding prank, a locked cabinet, crabby members of a ‘friendly’ church, a precocious young boy, arson, a celebration of apple pie, and much more combine to tell the tale of Fig Tree Federated Church, its heritage, its pastor, and its members.
Sunny River Writings 