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Ricker Winsor attended
Northfield Mount Hermon School, Brown University, where he studied
English, and The Rhode Island School of Design where he received BFA
and MFA degrees. He has worked as a photojournalist, as a
cabinetmaker, as a teacher, and as an exhibiting landscape painter.
He is also a professional musician performing in cafes and clubs for
over twenty years. His writing was published beginning in the '60s
during his photojournalism days but this is the first book. He lives
at his West Wind Studio in Bradford, Vermont.
"Ricker Winsor is a "force of nature -- photographer, cabinetmaker,
musician, writer, painter, fisherman, golfer, squasher,
indefatigable lover, Catholic mystic and pretty good cook." - Ken
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Jack Butler is the son of a Southern Baptist preacher and was himself an
ordained minister but has not worked in that capacity since he was a very young
man.
He is a poet, novelist
and essayist. His novel Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock was
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His poems have been published in
The New Yorker, Atlantic, and New York Times Book Review. Other novels
include Jujitsu For Christ and Nightshade (a vampire-on-Mars tale).
Hawk Gumbo and Other Stories is his first story collection. His poetry books are
The Kid Who Wanted to be a Spaceman and West of Hollywood, and he's published a cookbook
called Jack's Skillet. He now lives in Eureka, California.
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Alec was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. He graduated from the
University of Southern Mississippi and got his masters in drawing
and painting from East Tennessee State University. He first started
writing professionally while working for a service organization in
New York called Everything for Everybody which provided food,
clothing and shelter for the poor among many other services. Alec
edited the organization's newspaper. In 1977 he and his wife, Gabi,
returned to his hometown in Mississippi and founded a charitable
organization based on the principles of
Everything for Everybody, and they published a series of periodicals
beginning with a weekly newspaper, Persons, and ending with
Mississippi Arts & Letters, a literary and arts magazine.
Alec has taught drawing, painting and art history in public
schools and in college and has exhibited his paintings in galleries
throughout the country.
He and his wife are the founders
of ClaytonWorks Publishing. He has published five novels
and a book about art (all available here). He currently works as a
freelance art and theater critic on contract to The News Tribune
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