ABOUT MARK DEGARMO
Mark is a dancer/choreographer with more than 70 works in his company's repertory. The company, Mark DeGarmo & Dancers, which presents duo, trio, or sextet programs and has made more than ten international tours, including France, England, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, and Slovenia. He received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to Peru which lead to the creation of a joint U.S.—Peru contemporary dance company. Mark DeGarmo is the recipient of numerous fellowships, commissions, awards, and honors that reflect his twenty-six years in dance in New York City and his ongoing commitment to dance, education, intercultural communication and international exchange and understanding.
ABOUT JEAN RICHARDSON
Jean received her doctorate of ministry from the San Francisco Theological Seminary and served in various pastoral, ministry and consultant positions with the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Jean was a board member of the Larkin Street Youth Center and the Bay Area's Women's Resource Center. She is currently Development Director of Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico.
ABOUT SHARON OARD WARNER
Sharon Oard Warner is Director of Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico, as well as Director of the UNM-sponsored Taos Summer Writers' Conference. Her works include an edited collection of stories titled The Way We Write Now: Short Stories from the AIDS crisis; a novel, Deep in the Heart; and a short story collection, Learning to Dance and Other Stories. Her stories and essays have appeared in a number of publications including Sonora Review, Green Mountains Review, Other Voices, The Year's Best Writing on Writing, The AWP Chronicle, Studies in Short Fiction, The Writer, and The Writer's Digest. She has reviewed books for The Kansas City Star, The Dallas Morning News, The Des Moines Register, and The New York Times. Currently, she is completing a novel-in-stories entitled Sweetness.
ABOUT JIM BAIRD
Jim Baird is Program Director at Ghost Ranch Abiquiu/Santa Fe. He has a B.A. in English Literature/Philosophy from Texas Christian University and an M.A. in Theater/Speech from Kansas State Teachers College. Past work experiences include Production Stage Manager/Stage Director at Bonfils Theater, Denver; Executive Director, Denver Civic Ballet; Instructor of English/Speech at both Denver Technical College and Santa Fe Community College/Division of Corrections Education; and Partnership Coordinator, Plaza Resolana, Santa Fe. He has served on many boards including Denver Center of the Performing Arts, Hope House (Santa Fe), Santa Fe Cares, and the New Mexico Conference of Churches.
ABOUT LINDSAY LANCASTER
Lindsay Lancaster is the Director of Marketing & Public Relations, for Flying Star Cafe & Satellite Coffee, a 20 million dollar urban restaurant company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lindsay's background is in community collaboration and publishing. She graduated Summa cum Laude from the University of New Mexico, with a degree in creativity and collaboration. She built that degree in part with the leading female creativity guru, Vera John-Steiner. Lindsay served as the community relations director for an independent bookstore in Albuquerque and as editor-in-chief of The Magazine. She has given many book marketing workshops at bookseller conferences and also served two years as one of the poetry editors for the Blue Mesa Review. She is an avid poetry consumer and believes that poetry and art are not luxuries.
