Owner of Los Rios River Runners, New Mexico's oldest and largest rafting company, Cisco honed his storytelling skills around the campfire. A regular at the Taos Storytelling Festival, Cisco has told his tales to audiences as far afield as London and Paris, as well as to groups in Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
"Cisco Guevara is the fruit of the true vine, an authentic practitioner of one of the great traditional forms of storytelling ... my kind of storyteller" - Joe Hayes
Bonnie is a writer, educator, editor, and artisan who has lived in Taos since 2003. Her most recent book is How to Cook a Crocodile, a memoir about her days in Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. She is a creative nonfiction teacher at UNM-Taos.
Cherie's newest book is Searching for Beauty: The Life of Millicent Rogers, published by St. Martin’s Press in 2011. She has published two other books and has worked as a journalist in New York and southern California. She has lived in Taos since 2006.
Destiny Allison is a full time artist and a Santa Fe native. Her work is collected by public institutions and private individuals internationally. In addition to her numerous awards for excellence in sculpture, she was recently named Santa Fe Professional Business Woman of the Year for her work supporting artists and building community at La Tienda at Eldorado.
Allegra is the author of the bestselling and highly acclaimed Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, US and French Vogue, People, the Santa Fean, Harper's Bazaar UK, and the recently launched art and culture magazine Garage. Her article on midwifery, "Catching Babies in New Mexico," originally written for Mothering, is on the website of the State Historian.
Jane is a former professor at New York University School of the Arts where she taught performance techniques and was chairman of the voice department. Her recently published books Napoleon's Bathtub and Mousie: Diary of A Coon Cat Family are listed on Amazon.com.
Hannah Rappaport has recently completed her memoir Love on the Brink of History, a story of mystical initiation, dreams, visions, and transformation.
Greg Sagemiller, recruited as a civilian employee by two intelligence agencies during his senior year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, experienced a thwarted intelligence career when President Richard M. Nixon slashed the federal workforce by 37,000 employees with one stroke of his pen. Upon leaving the intelligence arena, he joined ranks with an international Fortune 100 company. One decade later, he relocated to a Colorado ski town, and then, five years afterwards to his penultimate dreamland, the mountains of northern New Mexico. There, Mr. Sagemiller pursues two lifelong passions---anthropology and alpine skiing. While employed seasonally at a northern New Mexico ski resort, he found ample time to continue educational pursuits in southwest archaeological studies at a community college and at University of New Mexico-Taos. He also enjoys personally enriching volunteer archaeological assignments, including countless hours of field survey and excavation work, laboratory analysis and rock art recording projects.
Greg Sagemiller has served several three year terms as Trustee of the oldest archaeological society in North America - the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, presided as its President for two terms, currently serves as its Scholarship Chairperson and has attended its summer field school near Gallup, New Mexico. He is also past President and Program Chair of the Taos Archaeological Society. He resides with his wife in their passive solar home utilizing renewable-resource components at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico.
Veronica is a poet who explores content and form. She came to Taos as a Wurlitzer Fellow in 2003. She has published six books, has taught poetry and multi-genre writing for Poets & Writers, Poets House, and the 92nd St Y/Makor and the New York City Public Libraries.
Catherine Strisik, author of the poetry collection, Thousand-Cricket Song(2010), and Paradise's Itch, has been active in the poetry community of Taos for nearly 30 years as a teacher and mentor. Recipient of Southwest Literary Discovery Award in Poetry, Peregrine Poetry Prize, Puffin Foundation Grant as well as honorable mention in many national poetry manuscript contests. Numerous publications include Cider Press Review, drunkenboat.com, Northwest Review, Comstock Review. Co-editor of upcoming Taos Journal of Poetry and the Arts.
Author of the bestselling and highly acclaimed Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found, Allegra is an experienced editor and copyeditor. During her nine years at the London publishers Chatto & Windus and Weidenfeld & Nicolson (where she was Editorial Director for four years), she worked with authors including Jane Goodall, Edna O'Brien, Christopher Hitchens, Barbara Leaming, Alan Hollinghurst, Robert Conquest, and Sir James Goldsmith.
Rita is a writer, editor, and communications consultant who hails from the mid-Atlantic and New England. She landed in Taos in 2007, immediately after receiving her undergraduate degree in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College. Specialties include performing arts, rural policy, youth development, and online communications.
The heart and soul of Final Eyes is Barbara Scott. More than a copyeditor, she is a master of communication arts, whose grammar savvy and layout smarts go beyond the formulaic. She has lived in Taos since 2006.
Sean teaches creative writing, meditation, and literature for the University of New Mexico in Taos, as well as SMU-in-Taos campus at Ft. Burgwin and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He leads writing workshops around the country.
