Birth Year (-Died Year)

1925 (-2021)

Birth City

Kansas City

Birth State

MO

Current Location

Colorado Springs

Occupation(s)

Professor of English, University of Southern Colorado, 1966-1991

Biography

Mother of two daughters. Docent Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for 10 years. Docent at Fountain Creek Nature Center and Bear Creek Nature Center from 1991 to the present. Author of five prose books and a good deal of poetry.

Education/Training

Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1961

Local Authors Genres

Published Works

Published Works Book Jackets

Organizations

Wyckoff House and Association - Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center - Fountain Creek Nature Center - Women's Educational Society, Colorado College

Speaker Availability

No

Birth Year (-Died Year)

1965

Birth City

Colorado Springs

Birth State

CO

Current Location

Colorado Springs, CO

Author's Website

Occupation(s)

Troll at an insurance company (day job)

Biography

Jonathan Martin is a native of Colorado Springs.

Local Authors Genres

Published Works

Speaker Availability

No

Birth Year (-Died Year)

1960

Birth City

Pasadena

Birth State

CA

Current Location

Colorado Springs, CO

Occupation(s)

Author and Academic Advisor

Biography

M. R. Hyde celebrates and explores the known and spiritual world through writing on themes of mercy, justice, humility, and joy. Her religious writing has been praised for its accessibility and her fiction for its absorbing, unusual, original, and humorous nature. M. R. Hyde has written for religious purposes for over three decades and writes fiction for the sheer joy of words. M. R. Hyde has lived in Colorado since 2006 and Colorado Springs since 2008. She is an active member of the Pikes Peak State College writer’s group Nearby Universe. She was an active participant and featured reader of the Colorado Springs Writers Reading Series. 

M. R. Hyde is also an active artist, having shown at several branches of PPLD in 2008, Cottonwood Center for the Arts in 2022, and with a show at Library 21C in July 2023. View the online gallery and where fine art reproductions are available.

Online, M. R. Hyde maintains an online web gallery here, a fiction and art blog here, and a Bible study blog here.

Her books are available for purchase online at Amazon, Smashwords, Lulu, and other fine retailers.

Education/Training

Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts, Point Loma Nazarene University
Master of Arts in Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary

Local Authors Genres

Published Works

Speaker Availability

Yes

Birth Year (-Died Year)

1969

Birth City

Hornell

Birth State

NY

Current Location

Colorado Springs CO

Author's Website

Occupation(s)

Librarian

Biography

Jessy Randall is the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College, a position she has held since 2001. She publishes regularly in literary magazines, is the author of several books, and occasionally guest-edits the online poetry journal Snakeskin.

Awards/Honors

Education/Training

Master's in Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1994 - AB, Columbia University, 1992

Local Authors Genres

Published Works

Published Works Book Jackets

Interviews

Organizations

AWP - ALA

Speaker Availability

Yes

Speaker Topics

Poetry - digital literature - Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona - language and slang (including etymologies of Harry Potter spell words) - library shenanigans

Current Location

Colorado Springs, CO

Biography

I have always loved Colorado and moved here in 2007. My books reflect my love of the natural beauty and wonderful people who reside here.

Education/Training

Master of Arts, Elementary Education - training in writers' groups and conferences, such as national and regional writer's conferences

Local Authors Genres

Published Works

Published Works Book Jackets

Organizations

Springs Writers

Speaker Availability

Yes

Speaker Topics

I am available to speak on domestic violence, overcoming fear, life skills, spirituality, parenting, and many other subjects.