Wanting to read the writings of other authors? Here are a few of my friends who have also published books. I have included some of my favorite authors also. All of these authors are talented and creative wordsmiths. Each have been writing for decades. These featured authors encompass different genres and styles. I hope you enjoy their writings as much as I have.
Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior is an American journalist and author. Kendzior is the author of The View from Flyover Country – a collection of essays first published by Al Jazeera – and is a former co-host of the Gaslit Nation podcast.
Sarah lives with her husband and children in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Last American Road Trip is one family’s exploration of the wonders of America during times of profound upheaval. Starting in 2016, Kendzior set out to show her two young children the country she knew shile she still could. For the next eight years, they hit the road -again and again.
Part memoir, part political history, The Last American Road Trip isone mother’s promise to her shildren that their country will be there for them – even though at times she struggles to believe it herself.
Once I began reading I couldn’t put this book down.
Diane K. Boyd
Diane Boyd is a wildlife biologist and wolf researcher, author, artist, bird dog trainer, avid outdoors enthusiast. Diane has written her debut memoir about her more than four decades studying wolf recovery, many years before any wolf reintroduction. In the 1970’s, she was the only female biologist in the United States researching and radio-collaring wild wolves. She has been honored with a National Outdoor Book Award and in 2025 her book also won High Plains International Book Award.
I couldn’t put Woman Among Wolves down once I started reading!
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
Thomas Rain Crowe
Thomas Rain Crowe 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 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
Zoro’s Fields:
My life in the Appalachian Woods
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.
Starting From San Francisco
“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.
Laurie Wilcox-Meyer
Laurie Wilcox-Meyer 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.
Circling Silence
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
Greg Howell
Greg Howell 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.
Looking for Wings
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.
Sunny River Writings 