Nothing Rhymes with Orange
Volume one
Laurie Bower
Laurie Bower enjoys creating work that expands the mind and moves the spirit. In addition to live performances, her poetry has been published in both print and audio form in a variety of Southwest and international anthologies and journals. She has narrated numerous audiobooks, and enjoys working with children and adults to find joy, creative expression and healing through equine experiences, animal care, Improv, Creative Writing and Yoga. www.LaurieBower.net
Poetry
Gene Bourne
Essays
Kathleen (Kat) Dudley
Kathleen (Kat) Dudley lives in a wilderness area of New Mexico, where writing grabs her fascination, but not her pen. Dudley studied with Sandra Foushee, recipient of the William Stafford Award for Poetry, and spends her time studying master writers of Russian literature and Tsar dynasties.
Poetry
Star Ford
Poetry
Maria Teresa Garcia
Maria Teresa Garcia writes fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Her work has been published in Southwestern Women: New Voices, La Herencia del Norte, and anthologies including Chokecherries, A Block of Writers, Late Bloomers The Movement and New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023. She had a career in archaeology and public land management and lives in Taos, NM, with her husband Kurt Winchester close to their children and grandchildren.
Poetry
Leota Brigida Harriman
The oldest poem in Leota Brigida Harriman’s personal collection is from 1978, when she was 12 years old and living in Las Vegas. A “coyota,” her mother’s family is from Peñasco and her father’s from Massachussetts. She often writes in the Spanglish that is the vernacular of Northern
New Mexico. In addition to poetry, she has a wide body of creative expression, from designing and sewing costumes, to visual arts, mostly drawing and mixed media works featuring watercolor and inks. Her day job is Publisher of the Las Vegas Optic. She relocated back to Las Vegas about two years ago, after more than 40 years of living places that aren’t nearly as cool.
Poetry
Mary Rose Henssler
Mary Rose Henssler spent most of her life in Nevada, in the small town of Battle Mountain, Henderson, neon lit Las Vegas, and other places, other states. She now lives outside Las Vegas, New Mexico, with her husband Bob, two dogs and a cat. She majored in playwriting at Vermont College of Norwich University (B.A.) and studied scriptwriting and voice over at UNLV. She has written, among other things, four unpublished novels and enjoys drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and being outdoors. She is an active member of Las Vegas Lit, publisher of Nothing Rhymes With Orange.
Short Fiction
Robert Henssler
Robert Henssler’s poetry is taken from personal experience as well as observation. His work is often his reaction in writing about what he sees and feels. He says he doesn’t adhere to any measured metric or rhyme because, “… life doesn’t come to us in a form noted out on a staff.” Bob is an active member of Las Vegas Lit, publisher of Nothing Rhymes With Orange.
Poetry
Jock Jacober
Poetry
Leslie Jones
Poetry
Larry Kilham
Award-winning author, Larry Kilham, was a high-tech entrepreneur and world traveler. Larry has written five novels and eight nonfiction books. These focus on creativity, invention, and artificial intelligence. Currently, he is writing poetry and recently published his poetry collection Hope.
Poetry
Shereen Lobdell
Poetry
Linda Malm
Linda Malm was published as a teen and only returned to poetry after she retired as a college dean. She was awarded a position as Writer of Los Luceros (the Robert Redford/NM Film Board enterprise). Her poetry has appeared in several issues of Howl, and the four Adobe Walls anthologies, as well as the Iowa Summer Writing Festival Anthology, Storied Wheels, The Examined Life, Sugar Mule, Ishaan Literary Review, Ms. Aligned 4, Smoky Blue, Abandoned Mine, First Literary Review – East, Ubu. #5, Way Words #9, and Taos Journal #13. Her chapbook, Winded from the Chase, was published by Kelsay Press.
Poetry
Bill Nevins
Bill Nevins, born in 1947, has lived in New Mexico since 1996. He grew up in the NYC vicinity, attended Iona University, U. of Connecticut and UC Berkeley and taught at UNM. He is a grandfather. Bill has organized poetry readings in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Taos and Angel Fire. He’s appeared in films and with Justin R Romine he made the poetry-film “Silence of the Messengers”. As a journalist, he has reported from Ireland and Mexico, and he has written for Green Left of Australia and many New Mexico publications including The Enchanted Circle News and TREND of Santa Fe. A collection of Bill’s poems, “Light Bending” is published 2024 by Sligo Creek Publishing of Maryland.
Poetry
Kayt Peck
Kayt Peck fell in love with the power of words at a young age and has spent decades striving to master the magic of language. The journey has included work as a journalist, public affairs officer in the Naval Reserve, free-lance writer, novelist, grants expert, playwright, and screenwriter. Her latest endeavor includes serving as the premier poet laureate for the City of Las Vegas, New Mexico. She has published eight novels with seven currently in print, including a two-time finalist in the New Mexico/Arizona book awards. Publications include also one biography, and hundreds of articles and short stories, and her play, “Sheltered Women,” took top honors in the New Mexico AACTFest. Her screenplay, “Choke Cherry Jelly,” received a Platinum Award in the International Independent Film Awards and was chosen for a virtual tabletop read for the Lady Filmmakers Festival.
Short Fiction
Sharon Vander Meer
Sharon Vander Meer spent much of her career as a freelance writer, reporter and editor. She has five published novels: Thunder Prime, Hunter’s Light, Blind Curve, Finding Family, Future Imperfect, and The Ballad of Bawdy McClure. She has also published a book of inspirational readings, Not Just Another Day, and two chap books of poetry. She is a founding member of Las Vegas Lit, an organization that promotes the work of writers, and publisher of Nothing Rhymes with Orange.
Poetry
Jennifer Wise
Jennifer Wise is an author of short fiction and essay. The forested landscapes of New Hampshire and the vast desert spaces of her current home in Northern New Mexico often inform and inspire her work. Her writing has been published in Northern Woodlands Magazine and Utne Reader.