The Wildflower Press - Authors' Biographies

Peggy Pond Church was a widely published poet and the author of several poetry collections. She was perhaps best known for her biography of Edith Warner of Los Alamos, The House at Otowi Bridge.

Constance Hester's poems have been published in several literary journals and anthologies, including Mockingbird, Verve, and Writing for Our Lives. She was co-editor of The Spiral: Exploring the Between, a book of explorations illuminating the concepts presented in Elsie S. Peeples' book, The Emperor Has a Body: Body Politics in the Between. For several years she was employed by the Superior Court in Oakland, California. After retiring from the Court she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she now lives.

Karen McKinnon lives in the mountains overlooking Albuquerque with her husband, Richard, and their dog, Penelope. She has been a National Endowment for the Arts Poet-in-the-Schools in New Mexico and Writer-in-Residence at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos. Her work has appeared in several literary journals and anthologies, most recently In Company, An Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 (University of New Mexico Press, 2004). She has published three collections of her poetry.

Sapphire Pleiades is very blessed to be taught by the Infinite, expressed through various angelic personalities and teachings that culminate in a higher expression of creativity. (Divinity is her inspiration.) Enjoying all forms of study, particularly at the present poetics, languages, history, and poetry, and enjoying the development of self-realization with the intent to better serve in her ordained tasks, she considers books and the arts to be the highest forms of communication that have ever been realized. Her name is from starlight that seen closer up is brilliant blue. She is happy at home with her beloved Michael and her cats, birds, plants, winds, et cetera. The mind and the sensory experience she considers to be the best gift. More of her books can be found at http://www.threshingfloorpress.com/. She says "thank you" to the celestial hierarchy for helping her to be joyous.

Harvena Richter has published fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. She has been an advertising executive, a university professor, and a student of psychology. She learned writing at the feet of her father, Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist Conrad Richter, whose theories of psycho-energics she presented in her book The Golden Fountains.

Jeanne Shannon has published poetry, short fiction, and memoir pieces in a variety of small-press and university publications. She is the author of several chapbooks of poetry. A full-length collection of her poetry, Carrying Water in a Sieve, was published in Tokyo in a bilingual Japanese-English edition. Stars Scattered Like Seeds contains poems, stories, and memoirs of her early life in Southwest Virginia.

Maryhelen Snyder is a practicing psychologist and family therapist in Vienna, Virginia. In addition to the memoir, No Hole in the Flame, she has published several collections of poetry and numerous professional articles and book chapters.

Phyllis Hoge Thompson taught for many years at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. In 1996 she received the Hawaii Award for Literature in recognition of her work with the first Poets in the Schools program in the United States, which she initiated early in 1966, and with The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Poetry Game in Honolulu. She has published six collections of poetry. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.