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DOWNTOWN FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
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Welcome to The Big Think! keynote speaker
W e’re excited to present an expanded, two-day book festival this year as we
showcase our amazing local Colorado authors alongside nationally-recognized
writers. This year, we’re exploring a forward-looking theme that asks you to tap into
your natural curiosity and contemplate big questions like “why?” and “what if?’ and
Andy Weir
“what else?” Saturday, 3:00 PM,
“To Live on Other
The Big Think combines diverse voices from science, technology, and the literary
Planets,”
arts to present fresh perspectives about what it means to be human in our quickly Block One Events
advancing society.
Saturday, 5:30 PM,
We hope you enjoy interacting with the variety of authors, scientists, and storytellers Closing Keynote:
joining us this year and leave the festival with some new favorite authors and books. “An Evening
with Andy Weir”
Our festival is offered free to the community through the support and generosity of & Book Signing,
our sponsors. CSU Lory Student
Center
Thank you!
Andy Weir built a career
as a software engineer
2018 FoCo Book Fest Organizing Committee until the success of his
first published novel, Photo by Aubrie Pick
The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing fulltime. He is
a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic
physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also
Congratulations to the Fort Collins Book Festival for mixes a mean cocktail. His most recent novel, Artemis, was published in
a third year of bringing a free innovative literary arts November 2017 and was a New York Times bestseller.
festival to our community.
This year’s event, The Big Think, is especially unique because
it highlights the cultural, social, and economic dimensions
of science, technology, and literature, not only in our own
community but as part of a larger national conversation.
We are lucky to have strong community partnerships like those among the
Book Fest organizers and supporters; it’s these collaborations leading to
innovation that establish Fort Collins as a premier literary destination.
2018 FESTIVAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Mayor Wade Troxell Renee Becher, Old Firehouse Books | Aby Kaupang, Author and Poet
City of Fort Collins Bruce Hallmark, CSU Morgan Library | Michael Liggett, Liggett, Johnson & Goodman
Peggy Lyle, Downtown Fort Collins Creative District | Tova Aragon,
Audrey Glasebrook, Anne Macdonald, David Slivken & Paula Watson-Lakamp,
Poudre River Public Library District | graphic design & promotion: Katie Auman,
Laura Carter Poudre River Public Library District
2 2018 Fort Collins Book FestIVAL #FoCoBookFest Full information and updates at www.FoCoBookFest.org 3Featured Authors Featured Authors
Bill Ritter, Jr. Dr. Adam Becker
Saturday, 9:30 AM, Opening Keynote: Saturday, 11:00 AM, “On the Same Wavelength:
“The Energy Transition in America” & Book Signing, Science Communication” & Book Signing,
Block One Events Block One Events
Saturday, 11:00 AM, “Eureka! Human Ingenuity Saturday, 2:15 PM, “What is Real?” & Book Signing,
and Invention” & Book Signing, CSU Powerhouse CSU Powerhouse Room #1
Room #1
Adam Becker is an astrophysicist and author. The New
Bill Ritter, Jr. is the founder and York Times praised his recent breakout debut, What Is
director of the Center for the Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum
New Energy Economy at Colorado State University which Physics, as “a thorough, illuminating
launched in 2011. Ritter authored the book Powering exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in
Forward – What Everyone Should Know About America’s modern science.” The Washington Post called it “splendid,” and
Energy Revolution. He was elected as Colorado’s 41st governor Science Magazine dubbed Adam “a riveting storyteller.” Adam
in 2006 and built consensus to tackle some of the state’s has also written for the BBC, NPR, Scientific American, NOVA,
biggest clean energy challenges. New Scientist, Publishers Weekly, and Aeon. Working with the
BBC, he recorded a series of animated videos on physics and
astronomy. Adam is currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s
Office for the History of Science and Technology.
Dr. Sheila Rowan Kimiko Hahn
Saturday, 11:00 AM, “On the Same Wavelength: Friday, 8:00 PM, “All-Star Poets” Reading,
Science Communication,” Block One Events Downtown Artery, Upstairs
Saturday, 1:00 PM, “Gravitational Waves, Drawing Saturday, NOON, “Natural Landscapes” Reading &
Us In,” Block One Events Book Signing, Wolverine Farm Publick House
Sheila Rowan is an experimental physicist and Director Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine collections of
of the Institute for Gravitational Research at the poetry, including Brain Fever and Toxic Flora. Both of
University of Glasgow in the UK. She received her these were prompted by fields of science in much the
PhD in the field of gravitational wave instrumentation same way previous work was triggered
from the University of Glasgow, and subsequently by Asian American identity, women’s
held research positions split between Stanford University and Glasgow before issues, black lung disease, and personal grief. Honors include a
returning full time to a Faculty position in Glasgow in 2003. Her research is focused Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award,
on optical and mechanical systems for use in interferometric gravitational wave Shelley Memorial Prize, as well as fellowships
detectors such as the Advanced LIGO observatories - the detectors which were from the National Endowment for the Arts.
responsible for picking up the first gravitational wave signals from colliding black Hahn currently serves as President of the Board,
holes in 2015. The Poetry Society of America and is a distinguished
professor in the MFA Program at Queens College,
The City University of New York.
4 2018 Fort Collins Book FestIVAL #FoCoBookFest Full information and updates at www.FoCoBookFest.org 5Featured Authors Schedule
Dr. Amanda Hendrix Friday
Saturday, 11:00 AM, “On the Same Wavelength:
Science Communication” & Book Signing, Writing Workshops at Old Town Library*
Block One Events *Registration required for workshops. Call 970-221-6740 or see online calendar at PoudreLibraries.org.
Saturday, 12:45 PM, “Beyond Earth: Our Path to a How to Self-Publish Successfully Talk to Me:
New Home in the Planets” & Book Signing, Museum of 10:30 AM – NOON A Voice & Dialogue Workshop
Discovery Digital Dome Teresa Funke 12:30 – 3:00 PM
Saturday, 3:00 PM, “To Live on Other Planets” April Moore
Writing About Science and Other
& Book Signing, Block One Events Everyday Wonders One-on-One Publishing Consulting
Amanda R. Hendrix is a Senior Scientist with the 10:30 AM – NOON 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Photo by Michael Lionstar John Calderazzo Teresa Funke
Planetary Science Institute, based in Boulder. She
worked for twelve years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Poetry: This is My Letter to the World Making the Strange Believable:
was the Deputy Project Scientist for the Cassini–Huygens mission 12:30 – 2:00 PM Secrets for Writing Sci-Fi & Fantasy
(2010-2012). She has been a scientific investigator on the Cassini, Jenny Browne 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Galileo and Lunar Reconnaissance missions, and a principal Todd Mitchell
investigator on NASA research and Hubble Space Telescope
observing programs. Her science focus is on moons in the solar
system, including Earth’s moon and those of Jupiter and Saturn, Evening Poetry Reading
their composition and evolution. She co-authored Beyond Earth: All-Star Poets
Our Path to a New Home in the Planets with Charles Wohlforth. 8:00 – 9:30 PM, Downtown Artery, Upstairs
Kimiko Hahn and David Axelrod
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
Saturday
saturday, 3:45 PM, “The Imaginary App” & Book
Signing, Museum of Discovery Digital Dome Activities to Enjoy All Day
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky is an established Science Fiction Book Sale
composer, multimedia artist and author whose fourth 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Old Town Library
book, The Imaginary App, was released in 2014. A special used book sale featuring science fiction titles and authors hosted by the
Miller is the 2017-2018 recipient of The Hewlett 50 Poudre River Friends of the Library. Sale proceeds benefit public library programs
Arts Commission Award which will like the Book Festival.
support the creation of “Sonic Web,”
FoCo Writers Read
Photo by Becky Yee a multimedia performance and an 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Art Lab Fort Collins
installation based on the history and evolution of the internet, Support local authors! FoCo writers take center stage throughout the day to share
which will premiere at San Francisco’s Internet Archive in January their writing and sign books during this community reading. Hosted by Northern
2019. Upcoming album releases include “Phantom Dancehall” Colorado Writers. See a list of participants at www.FoCoBookFest.org.
with premier reggae label VP Records and his first blockchain
album, “The Invisible Hand,” commissioned by SingularDTV.
6 2018 Fort Collins Book FestIVAL #FoCoBookFest Full information and updates at www.FoCoBookFest.org 7Saturday Schedule Saturday Schedule
Limited seating. Limited seating.
Time Block CSU Powerhouse CSU Powerhouse Time Downtown Fort Collins New Belgium
One EVENTS Room #1 Room #2 Artery Museum of Discovery Brewery
8:00 am 8:00 am
Walking and Writing Place
10:30-11:30 am - A walking field trip along the Sun Spotting
Poudre River with Michael McLane & Eric Magrane. Telescope Experience
Leaves Block One Events and ends at CSU Powerhouse. 9:00 am 2:30 - 4:30 pm
9:00 am
Andy Caldwell
Opening Keynote: The Writing about the
Energy Transition in Universe, A Thousand
America Words at a Time
10:00 am Bill Ritter, Jr. 10:00 am
Carolyn Collins Petersen
Book Signing
ERASURE: Climate, Book Signing
Catastrophe, and the After-
11:00 am On the Same Eureka! Human World in Poetry and Fiction 11:00 am Space Odyssey: Stanley Inside the Mind of a Caesar’s Last Breath:
Wavelength: Ingenuity and David Axelrod, Jodi Varon, Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, Science Writer Telling Decoding the Secrets of
Sasha Steensen and the Making of a Tales of the Space Age the Air Around Us
Science Communication Invention Book Signing
Panel Discussion Panel Discussion Masterpiece Carolyn Collins Petersen Sam Kean
Michael Benson
Noon Noon Book Signing Book Signing
Book Signing Book Signing
Journalism, Media
Where are Our Literacy, and the Beyond Earth: Our Path The Rise of Yeast
1:00 pm Gravitational Waves, Flying Cars? The Face of the Earth: 1:00 pm Post-Truth World to a New Home in the Nik Money
Drawing us in Panel Discussion Natural Landscapes, Panel Discussion Planets
Dr. Sheila Rowan Science, and Culture Dr. Amanda Hendrix
SueEllen Campbell
Book Signing Book Signing
2:00 pm Book Signing 2:00 pm
What is Real? The Tesla: Inventor of the Invention in the time A Good Earth
Unfinished Quest for the Modern of Mary Shelley’s is hard to find
Meaning of Quantum Physics World Building: Richard Munson Frankenstein Panel Discussion
Dr. Adam Becker One Fact at a Time Ellen Brinks
3:00 pm To Live on Other 3:00 pm
Planets Book Signing Panel Discussion Book Signing
Andy Weir Book Signing
Dr. Amanda Hendrix
a paradise of poets The Imaginary App
4:00 pm Book Signing 4:00 pm Poetry Readings Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
CSU Powerhouse Energy Campus Tours
Book Signing with Dr. Hendrix See times online at FoCoBookFest.org
Enjoy a guided tour of the state-of-the-art facilities Book Signing
5:00 pm and learn about the groundbreaking research. 5:00 pm Book Signing
Led by CSU Energy Club Student Ambassadors.
For a map of event For a map of event
6:00 pm locations, please 6:00 pm locations, please
see back cover. see back
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on following page.
See full descriptions following the schedule. See full descriptions following the schedule.
8 2018 Fort Collins Book FestIVAL #FoCoBookFest Full information and updates at www.FoCoBookFest.org 9Saturday Schedule Saturday Program Descriptions
Limited seating.
Time Old Firehouse Wolverine Farm Other
Books Activities Block One Events CSU Powerhouse rooms 1 & 2
8:00 am
Book Signing Guidelines The Energy Transition in America Erasure: Climate, Catastrophe,
All book signings are open to the public. Books may be In the Opening Keynote presentation, and the After-World in Poetry and
purchased at Old Firehouse Books, the official bookseller Bill Ritter, Jr. discusses the forces behind Fiction
of the festival, or their remote bookstores located at
9:00 am select festival venues. It is each author’s discretion America’s energy revolution, the new David Axelrod, Jodi Varon, and Sasha
whether or not they will personalize book ways we must think about energy, and Steensen explore how writers shape the
signings or sign collectibles or other items. the future of fossil and renewable fuels. energy and argument of their work from
a tension where nothing is “outside”;
10:00 am Walking and Writing Place
rather, we are immersed in an intimacy
Brave New Words DJ Spooky: Join writers Eric Magrane and Michael
Science Fiction Readings shared by all lifeforms.
The Hidden Code McLane for a generative walk as they
Two shows: briefly introduce their own practices Eureka! Human Ingenuity and
11:00 am Disorder, NOS 7:30 pm and 9:00 pm in relation to walking and place, and Invention
Aby Kaupang Fort Collins Museum
Matthew Cooperman of Discovery then share prompts to attune you to the Can we transform our world and
Book Signing Enjoy stunning 360° visuals encounters on the walk. ourselves? Our panel examines human
and live music in the OtterBox ingenuity and innovation and its role
Noon Book Signing Natural Landscapes Digital Dome. Presented by On the Same Wavelength:
Multi-Genre Readings The Music District. - positive and negative - in society.
Science Communication
Ticketed. $20 / $16 members With Ellen Brinks, Richard Munson,
Scientists and authors discuss the
Inventors Bill Ritter, Jr., and Jennifer Spencer.
challenges of communicating complex
1:00 pm and their Stories Moderated by Wade Troxell.
Richard Munson Stargazing ideas and the opportunities for engaging
Book Signing
8:00 - 10:00 pm the public in the fields of science Where Are Our Flying Cars?
Poetics of Extremity The Stargazer and technology. With Adam Becker, A combination of authors and scientists
Poetry Readings Observatory SueEllen Campbell, Amanda Hendrix, examine the role and impact of science
2:00 pm 3733 Galileo Dr.
Continue the conversation! Nik Money, and Sheila Rowan. fiction stories and topics in driving
The Meaning of Life in Enjoy an evening of Moderated by Erin Macdonald. scientific advancement. With Michael
Ten Mushrooms stargazing at Front Range Benson, Todd Mitchell, Carolyn
3:00 pm Nik Money Book Signing Community College’s Gravitational Waves, Drawing Us In
observatory. Collins Petersen, and Carol Van Natta.
The quest to detect gravitational waves
Weather Moderated by Andy Caldwell.
Book Signing permitting. was triggered over 100 years ago by
Einstein but ramped up in earnest over The Face of the Earth: Natural
4:00 pm CSU Lory the last few decades. Dr. Sheila Rowan Landscapes, Science, and Culture
Student Center describes the key science of this new way SueEllen Campbell weaves together
Doors Open 4:30 pm to study our Universe and her work with scientific, cultural, and personal stories
Presentation at 5:30 pm these “ripples in spacetime.” to explore how humans have made sense
5:00 pm
of our planet’s marvelous landscapes.
To Live on Other Planets
Closing Keynote: An Evening with Andy Weir Sci-fi author Andy Weir teams up with What is Real? The Unfinished
The acclaimed author of The Martian and Artemis shares his journey planetary scientist Dr. Amanda Hendrix Quest for the Meaning of Quantum
6:00 pm from software engineer to self-published writer to bestselling author and to explore the possibilities, realities, and Physics
discusses how he incorporates real science into his sci-fi stories.
challenges of humans living on other We don’t really understand what
Book Signing planets. quantum physics is saying about the
10 2018 Fort Collins Book FestIVAL #FoCoBookFest Full information and updates at www.FoCoBookFest.org 11Saturday Program Descriptions Saturday Program Descriptions
nature of reality and physicists have A Paradise of Poets The Imaginary App
debated this for over ninety years. Dr. Readings with Jenny Browne, Abigail Multimedia artist and writer Paul Old Firehouse Books
Adam Becker tells the story of that Chabitnoy, Natalie Giarratano, and Bill D. Miller aka DJ Spooky discusses Disorder, NOS: Autism, Parenting,
debate and reveals a fascinating human Tremblay. how technology has shaped creativity and Para-disability
side of the scientific enterprise. throughout history and continues Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman
World Building: One Fact at a Time Fort Collins Museum to guide how we actualize the future discuss the extreme present of living a
How exactly do writers go about of Discovery Digital Dome including how apps have changed life “not otherwise specified” and share
everything. their experiences and the ways they have
building worlds in their stories? And
Writing About the Universe, A made a difficult life work, even sing.
how important is “getting the science
right” to the success of creating an
Thousand Words at a Time New Belgium Brewery Inventors and Their Stories
Author Carolyn Collins Petersen shares
immersive experience for readers? With Caesar’s Last Breath Richard Munson shares entertaining and
tales of the cosmos and the stories
local sci-fi writers Josh Lehman, TH Take a journey with Sam Kean to surprising inventor stories tied to some of
behind how they got into her popular
Leatherman, JC Lynne, Nathan Lowell, understand the story of the air we the innovations that have shaped our lives.
book, Astronomy 101.
and Joe Petrone. breathe, which, it turns out, is also the
Inside the Mind of a Science The Meaning of Life in Ten
story of earth and our existence on it. Mushrooms
Downtown Artery Writer Telling Tales of the Space With every breath, you literally inhale Whether they have populated the
Age the history of the world.
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Carolyn Collins Petersen shares tales of landscapes of fairy tales, lent splendid
Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making the space age and the choices she made The Rise of Yeast umami to our dishes, or steered us
of a Masterpiece when writing Space Exploration: Past, Nik Money believes we cannot ascribe into deep hallucinations, mushrooms
Michael Benson explains how 2001: A Present, Future. too much importance to yeast, and have affected humanity from the
Space Odyssey was made, telling the story that its discovery and controlled use earliest beginnings of our species. With
primarily through the two people most Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New profoundly altered human history. He mycologist and writer Nik Money.
responsible for the film. Home in the Planets discusses yeast’s role in everything from
Journalism, Media Literacy, and
Will Mars really be the first place bread to beer to biodiesel. Wolverine Farm Publick House
humans live? Dr. Amanda Hendrix
the Post-Truth World accounts the developments and Sun Spotting Experience Brave New Words:
With the ease in which “fake news” can initiatives that have transformed the Follow in Galileo’s footsteps with FRCC Science Fiction Readings
be disseminated online, where do we dream of space colonization into astronomer Andy Caldwell as you safely With Josh Lehman, TH Leatherman,
go from here to safeguard journalistic something that may well be achievable. observe the sun and skies through a Tim Lee, and Carol Van Natta.
integrity and to ensure a society that unique solar telescope.
Invention in the Time of Mary Natural Landscapes
is media savvy? With Kevin Duggan,
Shelley’s Frankenstein A Good Earth is Hard to Find Multi-disciplinary readings with Kimiko
Stephanie G’Schwind, Stacy Nick, Erin
Ellen Brinks examines Shelley’s With all of the discussions surrounding Hahn, Michael McLane, Jodi Varon,
Udell, and Peter Waack. Moderated by
connections to and understanding of topics like land and water use, climate and Kathleen Willard.
Sara Nesbitt.
19th century science and discusses change, and species extinction, is
Poetics of Extremity
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern ways the novel has become a cultural there reason to be optimistic about
Matthew Cooperman, Carolina Ebeid,
Richard Munson asks whether Tesla’s myth about science that extends far, the future of Earth and our place in it?
Aby Kaupang, and Jeffrey Pethybridge
eccentricities eclipsed his genius and far beyond what Shelley originally With Gillian Bowser, Sam Kean, Eric
talk about how trauma has affected their
delivers an enthralling biography that conceived. Magrane, and Susan Shriner. Moderated
mind, body, and craft in therapeutic and
illuminates every facet of Tesla’s life. by John Calderazzo.
subversive ways.
12 2018 Fort Collins Book FestIVAL #FoCoBookFest Full information and updates at www.FoCoBookFest.org 13Authors And Presenters Authors And Presenters
David Axelrod Jenny Browne Abigail Chabitnoy Teresa Funke
Writer and poet 2017-18 Texas Poet 2016 Peripheral Fort Collins-based
whose eighth Laureate and the Poets Fellow whose author of seven
collection of poems, author of three forthcoming debut award-winning works
The Open Hand, was collections of poems, poetry collection is of fiction for adults
published in 2017. At Once, The Second How to Dress a Fish. and children set in
His second collection Reason and Dear A graduate of the World War II,
of nonfiction, The Eclipse I Call Father: Stranger, as well as two chapbooks. MFA program at CSU. including Dancing in Combat Boots and
Essays in Absence is forthcoming in the War on a Sunday Morning.
spring of 2019. John Calderazzo Matthew
Teaches scientists Cooperman Natalie
Michael Benson and scholars to Award-winning Giarratano
Writer, artist, and use storytelling writer whose latest 2018 Fort Collins
filmmaker. His new techniques to book, NOS (disorder, Poet Laureate and
book, Space Odyssey: communicate better not otherwise specified) author of Big Thicket
Stanley Kubrick, with the public and was published in Blues and Leaving
Arthur C. Clarke, and decision makers. Author of Rising Fire: August. Professor of creative writing and Clean, winner of the
the Making of a Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives. John is literature at CSU, where he is a poetry 2013 Liam Rector First Book Prize in
Masterpiece, was published in April. recently retired from CSU. editor of Colorado Review. Poetry.
Gillian Bowser Andy Caldwell Kevin Duggan Stephanie
Research scientist Full-time instructor Opinion writer for G’Schwind
and scholar with the of astronomy and The Fort Collins Director of the
Natural Resource geology at Front Coloradoan, where Center for Literary
Ecology Lab at CSU. Range Community he has worked in Publishing and editor
Her research focuses College-Larimer various newsroom of Colorado Review at
on the intersections Campus and capacities for 22 years. CSU. She directs
of ecology and society. Director of the Stargazer Observatory. internships that train graduate students
Carolina Ebeid in basic publishing skills.
Ellen Brinks SueEllen Award-winning poet
Professor of English Campbell whose first book, You Aby Kaupang
at Colorado State Author of The Face Ask Me to Talk About Author of three
University. Her of the Earth: Natural the Interior, was poetry books and
research focuses Landscapes, Science, named one of the ten two chapbooks, most
on the gothic, and Culture. best debut collections recently NOS, disorder
nineteenth-century Co-founder and in 2016 by Poets & Writers Magazine. not otherwise specified
British literature, and world literatures. co-director of Changing Climates @ CSU. and Disorder 299.00.
She holds master’s degrees in both creative
writing and occupational therapy.
Featured Authors are listed at the beginning of the program.
14 2018 Fort Collins Book FestIVAL #FoCoBookFest Full information and updates at www.FoCoBookFest.org 15Authors And Presenters Authors And Presenters
Sam Kean nathan lowell Todd Mitchell Stacy Nick
New York Times Local sci-fi and The 2018 Colorado Colorado arts
bestselling author of fantasy author who Book Award-winning reporter with more
Caesar’s Last Breath: started writing when author of the than two decades of
Decoding the Secrets he crayoned his first middle-grades book, experience. She
of the Air Around Us. story on his bedroom The Last Panther. currently works for
His work has wall in the 50s. He’s Director of the NPR-affiliate 91.5
appeared in The Best American Nature been a full time writer since 2012 and is beginning creative writing teaching KUNC covering arts, culture, and music.
and Science Writing, The New Yorker, well-known for The Golden Age of the program at Colorado State University.
New York Times Magazine, Slate, and Solar Clipper series. Carolyn Collins
more. Nicholas (Nik) Petersen
JC Lynne Money Colorado-based
TH Leatherman Author of The Esau Mycologist and science writer who
Colorado-based Emergence and The professor at Miami specializes in
author of The Esau Convergence, the University in Oxford, astronomy and
Burning Son. He first two books in a Ohio. His most space-science topics.
enjoys science fiction, trilogy of thrillers recent book is The Author of Space Exploration: Past,
fantasy, winemaking, based on the science Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Present, Future, and others.
and the Rocky of genetic engineering, epigenetics, and Shaped Civilization.
Mountain lifestyle. mycology. JeffrEy
April Moore Pethybridge
Tim Lee Eric Magrane Director of Northern Colorado author of
Fort Collins-based Cultural geographer, Colorado Writers the poetry collection
sci-fi and fantasy poet, and assistant and the author of Striven, The Bright
author writing under professor of geography two books, Folsom’s Treatise, named a
the pen name Talee. at New Mexico State 93 and Bobbing for best debut collection
Best known for University. Co-editor Watermelons. She by Poets & Writers Magazine.
writing the Power of The Sonoran is currently working on a young
Colors fantasy series. He has published Desert: A Literary Field Guide, a 2016 adult novel. Joe Petrone
eight novels and 12 short stories. Southwest Book of the Year. Fort Collins-based
Richard Munson writer and attorney
Joshua Lehman Michael McLane Author (Tesla: who likes to scribble
Local author and Poet and author of Inventor of the science fiction stories
storyteller who holds the chapbook Trace Modern), and activist and share them with
a torch for fantasy Elements and editor in the field of clean his writing group.
and science fiction. with Sugar House energy and industrial
He wrote A Song for Review and saltfront: energy efficiency.
Eventide, the first studies in human He directs the Environmental Defense
book in his Lifestream trilogy. habit(at). Director of the Utah Center Fund’s clean energy efforts in the
for the Book and the Utah Humanities Midwest.
Book Festival.
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