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Contributors to the AnthologiesAlphabetical List of Contributors to the Wind Anthologies: To see the names and home states of all the writers contributing to the Wind Anthologies click here or scroll down. Contributors Appearing in All Three Books: For a list of contributors whose work appears in all three books click here or scroll down. Corrections? If you note a correction that should be made, from a minor typo to a glaring error, in the names, addresses or titles, please e-mail us so that we can correct it. Thank you! Lost and Strayed We have lost touch with a handful of our contributors. If you are one of the following people, or if you know their whereabouts, please get in touch with us. Thank you! For a list of the lost lambs and strayed heifers click here or scroll way to the bottom of the page. back to top Alphabetical List of Contributors to the Wind Anthologies The title of each piece and the book in which it appears is listed below each author's name. Note that the state given with each name is the state where the writer is currently residing, not necessarily where the story or poem took place. Please e-mail us if you have corrections to this list. Thanks. To speed your search for a specific name, click on the letter to jump to that portion of the list: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Darcy Acord – see Darcy Lipp-Acord Lucy Adkins – Nebraska Woven On the Wind: “Linda” Crazy Woman Creek: “Writing into the Storm” Linda Aldrich – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “Hook and Turn” Sana Amoura-Patterson – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Wednesdays at Walgreens” Bonnie Andersen – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Making Room for Jesus and Buddha” Ara Anderson – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Strung on Sinew” Anonymous – pseudonym, no state listed Crazy Woman Creek: “What I Hate Most About You” Patricia Archie – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “To Leave This Place” Woven On the Wind: “Without a Doubt” Cheryl Arends – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Harvest is Subject to the Weather” Caroline Arlen – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “Posse to the Rescue” Karen Armstrong – California Crazy Woman Creek: “The Shearing” Bess Arnold – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Brotherhood of Railroad Workers” with Pat Ogle – Wyoming Crystal Sharping Ashley – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Cows on the Loose” Sue Austin – Idaho & Texas Leaning Into the Wind: “Land and Bones” Woven On the Wind: “The Field Road” with Laurie Kutchins – Virginia back to alphabet Charlotte Babcock – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “The Path” & “Letters to Lil” Crazy Woman Creek: “A World Apart” Julene Bair – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “A Guy Could” Woven On the Wind: “At Forty-five” June Frankland Baker – Washington Woven On the Wind: “June and I, Singing” Lucille Cress Baker – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “A Night Ride” Denise Banker – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Surviving at Great Cost” Robin Barkley – Arizona Crazy Woman Creek: “Mine Shack Memories” Margaret Barnhart – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Ghosts” Jeanne M. Bartak – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “My Choice” Bette-B Bauer – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Quilting a Dissertation” May H. Baughman – Colorado - Deceased Woven On the Wind: “Stella He” Cindy Bellinger – New Mexico Woven On the Wind: “To Smooth a Mountain” Virginia Bennett – California Leaning Into the Wind: “The Dead Yearling” Woven On the Wind: “Tapestry of Knots” Crazy Woman Creek: “Object of Affection” Margaret M. Benshoof-Holler – California Crazy Woman Creek: “Banding Together in San Francisco” Francie Berg – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Meadowlark” Danny Bergin – South Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “Celebrating Mass in a Nightgown” Karen M. Berry – Arizona Woven On the Wind: “Gram’s Vegetables” Crazy Woman Creek: “Stitching My Life Project” Hilary Barton Billman – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “How the West was Won” Crazy Woman Creek: “Bingo Babes” Doris Bircham – Saskatchewan, Canada Woven On the Wind: “The Waiting” Crazy Woman Creek: “Gifts from our Hands and Hearts” Virginia M. Blackford – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Majestic Range” Viola Hay Blair – South Dakota – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “Remembering the Depression Years” Maureen Helms Blake – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “To Breathe on my Own” Crazy Woman Creek: “A Light Shawl on a Cool Night” Susanne K. Bloomfield – see Susanne K. George-Bloomfield Shirley Blunt – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “The Women’s Club” Willo Boe – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “The Non-Musicals Sing Their Last Song” Sharon Boehmer – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Four-Holer” Carol Boies – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Like Grandma” Woven On the Wind: “The Wedding Shower” Emily Boies – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “What Makes Our Lives” Linda Boyden – Hawaii Woven On the Wind: “Whatever Works” Ethel Goudy Briggs – Montana – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “I Don’t Mind Milking” with Donna Gray – Montana Leslie I. Brown – Utah Crazy Woman Creek: “The Elegance of White Things” Sharon Bryant – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Dear Berry” Mavis Bucholz – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Ranger and Me” B. J. Buckley – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Mad Alyce as St. Therese” & “Mending Fence” Woven On the Wind: “A Man’s Work” & “The Woman Listening on the Party Line” Crazy Woman Creek: “Superior Laundry, Sheridan, Wyoming” & “Funeral Meats” Stephanie Pershing Buehler – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Sisters” Eva Potts Wells Burton – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Daughter Becomes a Cattlewoman” Woven On the Wind: “Without a Doubt” Laurie Wagner Buyer – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Hanging in Balance” Woven On the Wind: “There Were No Women” back to alphabet Maureen Cain – Arizona Woven On the Wind: “Car Pool Friendship” Maura Callahan – Washington Woven On the Wind: “Pilgrimage” Crazy Woman Creek: “How Do I Thank. . .?” Elizabeth Canfield – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “For the Grandchildren” & “The Informer” Woven On the Wind: “Living without Loneliness” Cleo Cantlon – North Dakota Woven On the Wind: “The Heart Knows” Crazy Woman Creek: “The Woman Who Didn’t Fit In” Deb Carpenter – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “They’re Easy to Kill” Woven On the Wind: “Love and Light” Margaret Carr – Wyoming – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “Tree Limb Checkers and Mustard Plasters” Betty Starks Case – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Tractor Tales” Virginia Cassells – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Sandhill Ranch Memories” & “Women’s Work” Crazy Woman Creek: “The Hobo Mark Swooshed” Sue Chaulk – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “The Ranch” & “Grave Gear” & “Returning the Favor” & “Matinee” Anne Fantaci Clement – Montana Woven On the Wind: “The Reclamation” Crazy Woman Creek: “Too Busy to be Church Ladies” Ashley Coats – Montana Crazy Woman Creek: “Women in Pickups” Beth Hathaway Cole – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Side by Side” Gaydell Collier – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Wyoming Bound” Woven On the Wind: “Knowing with the Heart” Crazy Woman Creek: “AfterWord” Shelly Whitman Colony – Oregon Woven On the Wind: “Common Ground” Crazy Woman Creek: “Feeding the Spirit” Geraldine Connolly – Montana Crazy Woman Creek: “Electric Avenue Books” Rian Connors – pseudonym, no state listed Woven On the Wind: “Full Monty” Heidi R. Cousins – Montana Woven On the Wind: “Old Ladies Go Hunting” Bertie Robbins Cox – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Dirty Dishes” Stacy Gillett Coyle – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “United Methodist Fellowship” Linda Crandall – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “The Homestead” Roberta Z. Crouse – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “If I Had This Ranch, I’d. . .” Cindy French Curtis – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Child of the Land” Nancy Curtis – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Cowmoms” Woven On the Wind: “La-vin-i-a” Crazy Woman Creek: “Checkup, Checkout” back to alphabet Lyn Dalebout – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Presence of Mind” Ruth Daniels – Oklahoma Crazy Woman Creek: “Old Woman with a Mind” Lou Dean – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “Echoes on the Wind” Patti DeJonge – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “For the Farmer’s Wife” Lyn DeNaeyer – Nebraska Woven On the Wind: “A Woman’s Place” & “Resurrections” Donna Williams Dereemer – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “The Day the Uncles Bought the New Truck” Kelly Rebecca Dereemer – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “Wild Cows” Saundra J. DeRemer – Nebraska Woven On the Wind: “Summer Friends” Kalli Deschamps – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “What’s in a Smell?” Dixie DeTuerk – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “The Great Bull Roundup” Beulah Donnell – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Prayer and Fudge” Marilyn Dorf – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “What It Took” Betty Downs – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “Learning How to be Lonely” Crazy Woman Creek: “Tuesday Tea” Sister Hildegard Dubnick, OSB – Colorado Woven On the Wind: “Holy Ground” Crazy Woman Creek: “A Couple of Nights Before Christmas” Mary Duffy – see Mary Garrigan Carolyn Dufurrena – Nevada Woven On the Wind: “Ghost of April, 1978" Crazy Woman Creek: “Nevada Firestorm” & “Woman Sculpted of Stones” Phyllis Dugan – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Far-Flung Neighbors” Norma Nelson Duppler – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Adjustments” Woven On the Wind: “Secret Sin” Crazy Woman Creek: “When the World Split” Penny Dye – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Woman Vet” Shannon Dyer – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “The Auction” Woven On the Wind: “Girls’ Night Out” Crazy Woman Creek: “Wolf Pack in the School District” back to alphabet Sophie Dominik Echeverria – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “My Mother’s Moccasins” Crazy Woman Creek: “The Far Side of Maple Street” Robyn Eden – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Living on the Edge” Faye Eggert – Wyoming - Deceased Crazy Woman Creek: “More Alike than Different” Marie Ellenberger – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Just like a Woman” Jacqueline S. Elliott – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “From Short Ears to Long Ears” Louise Engelstad – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “Reclaiming Mother’s World” Barbara Engle – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “A Good Thing To Do” Genevieve Eppich – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Elk Make me Boil” Kelly Madigan Erlandson – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “You Always Start With a Baptism” Cora Esch – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Horse Trader’s Daughter” back to alphabet Patricia (Midge) Farmer – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Transplanted” & “Learning the Bum Lamb Business” Goose E. Fedders – New Mexico Crazy Woman Creek: “Speak, Throw Up, or Die” Mary Peace Finley – Colorado Woven On the Wind: “Rosario” Frances Burjes Fitch – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “I’ve Been There, and I’m Still There” Maureen Tolman Flannery – Illinois Woven On the Wind: “Before She Left” Rhae Foster – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Curley” & “Hometown” Terrill Foster – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Lady of the Night” Jeannie Fox – Minnesota Woven On the Wind: “Twinkle Little Star” Sharon Frank – see Sharon Graham-Ellis Cindy French – see Cindy French Curtis Toni Kim French – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “They Still Make Country Schoolteachers” Pat Frolander – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Sisterhood” Crazy Woman Creek: “I Suppose It Was the Food” Evelyn I. Funda – Utah Crazy Woman Creek: “Belongings” back to alphabet Katherine Mann Galey – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Stretching Friendship” Eleanore Garreau – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Place Called Home” Mary Garrigan – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “A Farmer’s Grandchild” Woven On the Wind: “The Concubine” Susanne K. George-Bloomfield – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Birth” & “Poster Girl” & “Exploring the Plains” Beth Gibbons-Ayres – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Alone” Tammy Hansen Gilbert – see Tammy Hansen Snell June Brander Gilman – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Horses I Claimed” Colette (Koko) Knutson Gjermundson – North Dakota Woven On the Wind: “Friends Because” Crazy Woman Creek: “Simply, Soul Soup” Peggy Cook Godfrey – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Sing!” & “The Real Question” Jean Goedicke – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Range Wars on the Playground” Lydia Gonzales – Kansas Crazy Woman Creek: “La Mujer y Su Cultura” Ann L. Gorzalka – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Legacy of Strength” Kathleen Gotschall – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Rodeo Moms” Tena Cook Gould – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Heartbreak of a 4-H Beef” Woven On the Wind: “The Night” Janet E. Graebner – Colorado Woven On the Wind: “Melissa” Crazy Woman Creek: “Silent Renewal” Sharon Graham-Ellis – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Dearest Little One” Donna Gray – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “I Don’t Mind Milking” with Ethyl Goudy Briggs – Montana – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “Frog Diapers” with Urma DeLong Taylor – Woven On the Wind: “Huddled for Warmth” Jennifer Green – Colorado Woven On the Wind: “Saying Goodbye to ‘Nali’” Laurie M. Greig – Washington Crazy Woman Creek: “Colorado Ritual” Laura Hawkins Grevel – Austria, Europe Woven On the Wind: “Dear Quilting Sisters” Crazy Woman Creek: “Leaving Sad Town” Jennifer Graf Groneberg – Montana Woven On the Wind: “Handwork” Crazy Woman Creek: “Tupperware Therapy” Mary Alice Gunderson – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Black and White” Woven On the Wind: “Leah, Bright and Dark” Sharon Gustafson – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “waiting” back to alphabet Mary Hadley – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “No Room for Strangers” Vee Hageman – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Majesty” Lori Hale – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Nancy, Heaven-Sent” Vivian Hamburg – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Just One Dress” & “Gambling” Candy Hamilton – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “Women in the Rain” Kathy Hanks – Kansas Woven On the Wind: “Hog Wars” Marvelle Hansen – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Memories of a Cow Wrangler” Twyla Hansen – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Planting Trees” & “Instinct” & “Wind” & “Snow Crazy” Woven On the Wind: “At the Prairie, the Day Before” Crazy Woman Creek: “At the Greasy Spoon” Evelyn Hard – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Evelyn’s Garden Bug Spray” & “How Not to Sit in the Shade” Mary Harman – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Some Things Never Change” A. J. Harnish – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Well—You Told Me To” Ruth Harper – South Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “Vagina Dialogues on the Road Trip” Lois Hart – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “Muskrat Ramble” Sue Hartman – Colorado Woven On the Wind: “Anneen” Crazy Woman Creek: “Choir Practice at the Bongo Lounge” Donna Britton Harvey – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Don’t Step in the Cactus” Melissa Green Harvey – Texas Crazy Woman Creek: “Wonderbra Soldiers” Linda M. Hasselstrom – Wyoming & South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Intro: Grass Widows & Wrinklebelly Women” Woven On the Wind: “Six Artists at a Country Retreat” Crazy Woman Creek: “Intro: Beyond Crazy Woman Creek” Vanessa Hastings – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Cultivating the Iris, Dawn of Change” Mary Alice Haug – South Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “Tapestry Woven of Stories” Mary Ann Haugen – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Unconditional Guarantee” Celeste Havener – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Patchwork for Baby” Edna Mae Link Hehner – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “Feeding Cows” Lisa Heldke – Minnesota Crazy Woman Creek: “Perching” Lee Helvey – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “New York vs. Kirby” Marilyn Henderson – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Year of the Grasshoppers” Terry Henderson – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Ranch Widow” Helen Moore Henry – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Milkweed Silk” Marcia Hensley – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “I Like It That Way” A. Rose Hill – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Chokecherry Jelly” Woven On the Wind: “The Gift” & “Barefooting Summer” Mae Hoffer – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Never a Gold-Digger” Joan Hoffman – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Home on the Range” Ida Hohm – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Dear Anna, My Great-Granddaughter” Yvonne Hollenbeck – South Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “Rejuvenating the Clearfield Hall and Me” Bertha Holsinger – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “All for a Box of Crayons” Emilie Hoppe – Iowa Crazy Woman Creek: “Things I Would Not Miss” Joyce B. Hunsaker – Utah Woven On the Wind: “Something of the Earth” Deck Hunter – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Wilderness Ranger” Kathy Hunter – Oregon Crazy Woman Creek: “Warm Hearts, Cold Reality” Christina Hutchins – California Crazy Woman Creek: “In a Time of War” Jennie Hutton – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Gifts from the Heart” back to alphabet Maxine Bridgman Isackson – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Nothing Worthwhile Is Easy” Janeen Jackson – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Country Seedling” Maeann B. Jasa – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Tractor Travels” Barbara Jessing – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Given Away” Crazy Woman Creek: “The Spite and Malice Sewing Circle” Carolyn Johnsen – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Not to Farm” & “Baling Wire” Margaret Eaton Johnson – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Endurance in Harmony” Judy Ann – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Savoring the Circle” back to alphabet Jean Keezer-Clayton – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “The Last Coyote Hunt” Audrey Keith – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Spring Calving” & “Going Home” Kathryn Kelley – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Witching Saint Anthony’s Well” Woven On the Wind: “That’s What Neighbors Do” Crazy Woman Creek: “September 12, 2001" Diane Kesey – Oregon Crazy Woman Creek: “Waiting to Dance” Dianne Rood Kiesz – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Morrill County Soddy: 1990" & “Passage” Woven On the Wind: “Time for Friendship” Nancy Kile – South Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “Grab Your Shawls, Girls!” Jane Kirkpatrick – Oregon Crazy Woman Creek: “To Dance With Grace” Rachel Klippenstein – Oregon Leaning Into the Wind: “The Sale” Norma Thorstad Knapp – Minnesota Crazy Woman Creek: “The Logging Bee” Sandra Knox – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Maybe” Jackie Pugh Kogan – California Crazy Woman Creek: “Desert Filament” Bernie Koller – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Mulberries” Woven On the Wind: “Lessons Learned by Hand” Crazy Woman Creek: “Concerning My Hutterite Cousins” Kay E. Konz – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Where They Know My Name” Diana Allen Kouris – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Headlong into the Storm” Rose Kremers – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Leaning into the Wind” Norma Kulas – Michigan Woven On the Wind: “End of the World” with Sandie Nicolai – North Dakota Laurie Kutchins – Virginia Leaning Into the Wind: “Weather” Woven On the Wind: “The Field Road” with Sue Austin – Idaho & Texas Grace E. Reimers Kyhn – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Building the Straw Shed” Crazy Woman Creek: “The Caring Cleveland Club” back to alphabet Page Lambert – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Redy’s Foal” Woven On the Wind: “Backbeat” Crazy Woman Creek: “One Word at a Time” Sue Leever – Colorado Woven On the Wind: “Pink Iron Nails” Phyllis Letellier – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Night Lambing” & “Tested Rules for Ranching” Woven On the Wind: “Whistling Girls and Knitting” Crazy Woman Creek: “Your Sister’s Keeper” Delcie Light – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “March Communion” & “Janus Was a Two-Faced God” Shirley D. Lilley – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Storm at Chimney Rock Ranch” Darcy Lipp-Acord – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Dear Ann” Crazy Woman Creek: “Path to a Small World” Robin Littlefield – Washington Woven On the Wind: “The Art of Living the Moment” Tammi Littrel – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “The Surrogate” & “Closet Animal Rightest” Patty Litzel – see Patty Zeigler Mary Lode – Montana Crazy Woman Creek: “Alone, Not Lonely” Anita Lorentzen-Wells – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Irrigating with Grandpa” & “Runt” Barbara Love – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “A Place of My Own” Betty L. Lye – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Saying Goodbye” back to alphabet Dorothy Blackcrow Mack – Oregon Woven On the Wind: “Belonging to the Black Crows” Crazy Woman Creek: “I Bring You the Gift of My Dying” & “Crone Circle: Grandmothers Giving Wisdom” Freya Manfred – Minnesota Leaning Into the Wind: “Grass” Claudia F. Manz – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “We Four” Janelle Masters – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Display Grounds” Woven On the Wind: “Of Potatoes and Wind” B. Lynne McCarthy – Missouri Crazy Woman Creek: “Have Cattle, Will Travel” Susann McCarthy – New Mexico Woven On the Wind: “The Company of Women” Helen Applegarth McConnell – New Mexico Woven On the Wind: “Goldie” Noreen McConnell – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “American Dream on an Elk Ranch” Elizabeth Keough McDonald – New Mexico Crazy Woman Creek: “The Ramah Farmer’s Market” Jane McGarry – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “Wood Ash on the Wind” Donna Applegarth Mentink – Nebraska Woven On the Wind: “Come Home” Crazy Woman Creek: “Pickin’ Chickens” Lyn Messersmith – see Lyn DeNaeyer Phyllis Luman Metal – California – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “I Carry the Ranch Inside Me” & “Abortion 1925" Lucy C. Meyring – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Ranching—in My Blood” Rosalee M. Mickelsen – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Surviving the Farm Crisis” Edna Miller – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Designated Turkey Herder” Joyce M. Miller – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Morning Window” Karen N. Miller – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “Capes” Susan Kay Minyard – West Virginia Woven On the Wind: “word” Crazy Woman Creek: “Watch the Big House Burn” & “On Watermelon and Stout Roads” Diane Molleson – Washington Crazy Woman Creek: “Picking Peaches” Kay Moon – New Mexico Leaning Into the Wind: “Return to Elk Mountain” Lois Jean Moore – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Porky’s Hard Labor” & “Teacher Rode a Mule” Woven On the Wind: “Sybil Harris” Wanda Douglas Morgan – New Mexico Woven On the Wind: “Friends for Life” Sue A. Morrell – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Of Seed Catalogs and Spirituality” Candy Vyvey Moulton – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Threads of Change” Lorrie Mydland – South Dakota – Deceased Woven On the Wind: “Beverly” back to alphabet Florence Newsom – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “They Cleaned Us Out” Sandie Nicolai – North Dakota Woven On the Wind: “End of the World” with Norma J. Kulas – Michigan Donna Niederwerder – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Hollyhock Seeds” Bonnie R. Nordberg – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Fueling the Fire” back to alphabet Nellie O’Brien – Missouri Leaning Into the Wind: “The Muskrat Trapper” Karen Obrigewitch – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Growing up Free” & “Place-Bound” Woven On the Wind: “Who Else” Pam Ochsner – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “frustration” Woven On the Wind: “Vi and Me” Pat Ogle – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Brotherhood of Railroad Workers” with Bess Arnold – Wyoming Claudette Ortiz – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Co-madres” Laura M. Osadchy – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “Call Me Doc” Elaine M. Oster – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Farmwife with an Attitude” Linda Oyama – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Mountain Made” back to alphabet Stephanie Painter – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Trinity” Ginny Jack Palumbo – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Elvira” Elsie Pankowski – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “The Home Place” Thomasina Parker – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Corn Cob Cuisine” Donna Parks – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “From a Meditation” Woven On the Wind: “Spider Beside Her” Dixie Partridge – Washington Crazy Woman Creek: “Cliff Dwellings: Mesa Verde” Caroline Patterson – Montana Woven On the Wind: “Preserving” Beth Paulson – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “A Square of Winter Light” Katy Paynich – Montana Woven On the Wind: “Defying Bare Branches” Crazy Woman Creek: “After Moving Away from 610" Diane Josephy Peavey – Idaho Woven On the Wind: “Coming Home” Crazy Woman Creek: “Watch Where You Step” Cynthia Pederson – Missouri Crazy Woman Creek: “A Haunting Experience” LoRee Peery – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Ongoing Sustenance” Garnet Perman – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Evolution of a Country Woman” Marian D. Peters – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Circa 1992, New Salem, North Dakota” Crazy Woman Creek: “At the Line Dance Café” Gwen Petersen – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “The Legacy” Woven On the Wind: “The Shell Game” Norma F. Plant – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “April Blizzard” Thelma Poirier – Saskatchewan, Canada Woven On the Wind: “chokecherries” & “wild roses” Kay Marie Porterfield – Colorado Woven On the Wind: “The Legacy” Crazy Woman Creek: “Beadwork” Jann H. Potter – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “A Ranch Woman’s Week” Joan L. Potts – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Harvest Season Is a Tense Time” Kim Potts – Montana Crazy Woman Creek: “Shelter for Each Other” Rose Potulny – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Broomstick Therapy” Cindy L. Prater – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Eccentricities & Earthly Remains” Woven On the Wind: “Aunt Noi” C. J. Prince – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Bill, the Comeback Kid” Kayne Pyatt – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “The Drumbeat Continues” back to alphabet Olive Raben – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “The Winter That Was” Linda M. Race – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Markers” Pamela Ramsey – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “Soakers Unite” Diane Raptosh – Idaho Woven On the Wind: “The Rapture” & “Matrimony” June Willson Read – North Carolina Leaning Into the Wind: “Running Water Ranch” Lucy Rebenitsch – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “College on Twenty Dollars” Candi Red Cloud – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “How I Became my own Woman” Ella Schlater Reichart – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Making Do” Lora K. Reiter – Kansas Woven On the Wind: “She was Writing” Crazy Woman Creek: “Weeders, All” Florence F. Renfrow – North Dakota – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “One Day on the Farm” Mary Renstrom – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “Casserole Culture in Highlands Ranch” Georgia Rice – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Tea for Two” Sarah Byrn Rickman – Ohio Crazy Woman Creek: “Fifty Years of Potluck” Barbara Rinehardt – Washington Woven On the Wind: “Divas for a Day” Jan Rippel – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Daddy and Ditch the Water” Shelly Ritthaler – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “High Plains Bride” Gail Rixen – Minnesota Leaning Into the Wind: “Contentment” & “Why I Build Things” Crazy Woman Creek: “No Treasure in Bismarck” Jeanne Rogers – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Ninety Degrees and Rising” Woven On the Wind: “Community of Stones” Crazy Woman Creek: “Re-entry: Homeward Bound” Tamara E. Rogers – South Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “Right Place, Wrong Time” Gretchen Ronnow – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Old Woman’s Domain” Lee Ann Roripaugh – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “Pearls” & “Oyurushi: Forgiveness” Wanda Rosseland – Montana Woven On the Wind: “Because Men Rule” Crazy Woman Creek: “Straightforward and Unafraid” Echo Roy – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Prairie Ocean” Nancy Heyl Ruskowsky – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “The Seventh Direction of Night” Janis Russell-Wilson – Missouri Crazy Woman Creek: “Concert of Energy” & “Forecasting the Future of Food” Kathleen Rutledge – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Women of the Journal Star” Edith Rylander – Minnesota Crazy Woman Creek: “Ghost Dance II” back to alphabet Marjorie Saiser – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Making Noodles” Woven On the Wind: “My Old Aunts Play Canasta in a Snowstorm” Crazy Woman Creek: “The Living, The Warm” Peggy Sanders – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “If. . . ” Auriel J. Sandstead – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Postwar” Mary Lou Sanelli – Washington Woven On the Wind: “Marriage” & “Trying to Remember She Is Now a Man” Crazy Woman Creek: “Standing in Line at Aldrich’s Grocery” Michelle M. Sauer – North Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “Feeling North Dakota and Looking California” Bobbie Saunders – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “February Evening” Meghan Nuttall Sayres – Washington Crazy Woman Creek: “Where the River Bends” Terry Lee Schifferns – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Is this Work?” Mary E. Schnell – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “Let the Circle be Unbroken” Fay Schrater – Massachusetts Woven On the Wind: “Dormant Seeds Sprouting” Ruth Schubarth – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Born Backwards” Pearle Henriksen Schultz – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Barbed Wire and Robert Frost” Crazy Woman Creek: “Sonnet for My Grandchild” Gin Scott – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Shifting Gears” Gael Seed – pseudonym – no state listed Woven On the Wind: “Barriers of Silence” Dawn Senior-Trask – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Never Alone” Woven On the Wind: “Wyoming Mother” Crazy Woman Creek: “Convergence of Horse-Crazy Women” Sherry Shillenn – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Dear Judy” Liesel Shineberg – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Liesel, You’re a Good Christian” Lee Ann Siebken – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “The Storm” Marlaine Slaaen – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Saturday Night” Anne Slade – Saskatchewan, Canada Woven On the Wind: “Tea with Daphne” Linda Slater – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Porch-Sitting Passion” Barbara M. Smith – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Transplant” & “It’s Good to Have” Woven On the Wind: “Ladies Aid” Crazy Woman Creek: “Boomtown, Babies, and Strawberry Pie” Clara Smith – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Spring’s Promise” Consuelo N. Smith – Wyoming Crazy Woman Creek: “Tortilla Round” Jeannie P. Smith – Nevada Crazy Woman Creek: “Valley Essential: Gladys Smith” Margaret E. Smith – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “A Horse Named Concussion” Tammy Hansen Snell – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “You Live Where?” & “Ranch Communications” Mary Sojourner – Arizona Crazy Woman Creek: “Slot Mamas” Jonita Sommers – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “The Ups and Downs of Driving” Morgan Songi – Oregon Leaning Into the Wind: “Stormy Weather” Jennifer Kayl Soule – South Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “Banana Bread And Coffee” Bonnie Larson Staiger – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Varmint Eradication” & “A Sense of Place” Woven On the Wind: “Cycles” Judith McConnell Steele – Idaho Woven On the Wind: “The Women” Cora Steffes – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Storming Whole Hog” Louise Steneck – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “The Handmaiden” & “Sleeping with Pigs” Woven On the Wind: “Circled in Shadows” Melinda Stiles – Idaho Woven On the Wind: “Her Soul Lives Here” Mary Kathryn Stillwell – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Winter Song” & “January 4, 1991" Crazy Woman Creek: “The Circle Dance” Dierdre Stoelzle – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “The Curtsy” Linda L. Knouse Stotts – Missouri Leaning Into the Wind: “Essence of the Ranch” Jody Strand – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “The Only Thing We Will Not Do Is Give Up” Woven On the Wind: “Maybe Slower Is Better” Jo-Ann Swanson – Montana Woven On the Wind: “The Oddest Daughter” & “Alva in the Fields” Crazy Woman Creek: “Our Ladies of the Farm” Jean McKenzie Sweem – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “1936" Peggy Symonds – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Dear Daughter” back to alphabet ShaunAnne Tangney – North Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “The Hippie Central Library Fest” Anita Tanner – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Ancestry of Cows” & “Butchered: A Cattle Song” Crazy Woman Creek: “Run Toward Suffering” Urma DeLong Taylor – Leaning Into the Wind: “Frog Diapers” with Donna Gray – Montana Sandra Gail Teichmann – Texas Woven On the Wind: “Light” Nedalyn Testolin – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Sky, Grass, Rain and Sage” Eileen Thiel – Oregon Woven On the Wind: “Resolving Mrs. Wackerly” Martha Thompson – Wyoming - Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “A New Life On a Dry Farm” Janie Tippett – Oregon Crazy Woman Creek: “Rhino Rump, Chicken Palace, and Kindness” Julia Tobias – Colorado – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “Justice” Dianna Torson – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Miss Top Cat” & “Kirsty Ann’s Mule” Woven On the Wind: “Joan” Sureva Towler – Kansas & Colorado Woven On the Wind: “Up Fortification Creek” Crazy Woman Creek: “No One Baked Cookies” & “I’m Afraid I Can’t Attend the Next Meeting” Margaret Trautman – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Mother Left a Lamp Burning” & “And the Grass-hoppers Came” Elaine Traweek – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Dear Grandma” Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “Why We Still Sing When Other Choirs Dissolved” back to alphabet Juanita Urbach – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “Love and Christmas” Christine Valentine – Montana Crazy Woman Creek: “Down Gravel Roads” Toni Vance – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “The Dangers of Meeting Horse Trailers on Gravel” Gloria VanDyke – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “My Man Isn’t” Marilyn J. Van Well – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “My Dear Grandchildren” Ellen Vayo – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Lupe’s Song” & “Granma’s Gloves” Crazy Woman Creek: “Cowgirl Up, Cupcakes” Linda Velder – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Dear Tomboy” Jean Vertefeuille-Cutler – Colorado Crazy Woman Creek: “Champagne Toast at Midnight” Janice Vierk – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Noon Prayer” Rosalie Vigil – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Arnold Pig” Lillian Vilborg – Manitoba, Canada Woven On the Wind: “Sigga” Susan Vittitow – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Jean” Ann Kostenko Vontz – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “From the Ukraine to the Plains” Mary Lynn Vosen – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Winter Crouches, Waiting” & “Rotten Squash in the Cellar” Sheila Vosen-Shorten – Montana Woven On the Wind: “Pearls from the Milk” Crazy Woman Creek: “Communion of Saints” back to alphabet Donna Walberg – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Our Onaka Ordeal” Phyllis Walker – Montana Crazy Woman Creek: “Plant Sale Grows Roots” Barbara Wallace – Oregon Crazy Woman Creek: “Dealing Uno and Life” Rebecca Wampler – Wyoming – Deceased Leaning Into the Wind: “Old Ponies” & “Dark Billowing Flowers” Tracy Wang – South Dakota Crazy Woman Creek: “From Canton to Spearfish” Trudy Z. Wardwell – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Why I Didn’t Write” & “Come Next Branding” Ellen Waterston – Oregon Woven On the Wind: “Spun Sugar” Crazy Woman Creek: “Anaconda Copper Dreams” Helen M. Wayman – Montana Crazy Woman Creek: “Hallelujah! Faith Circle!” Tina Welling – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Passage” Patricia Wellingham-Jones – California Crazy Woman Creek: “One Panel of a Quilt” Jane Wells – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “My Heart Still Grins” Crazy Woman Creek: “Comments From the Crow’s-Nest” Erla K. Werner – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “First-Name Relationships” Kathleene West – New Mexico Leaning Into the Wind: “Martin Luther’s Children” Woven On the Wind: “Thinking of Rain in the Dry Season” Nellie Westerskow – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “From Arctic Splendor to Sunset Mountain” Agnes Wich – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Voices in the Wind” Woven On the Wind: “Letter to a ‘Friend’” Joanne Wilke – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Geese” & “Marking Territory” Crazy Woman Creek: “Cindergals Never Looked Back” Ruby R. Wilson – South Dakota Woven On the Wind: “Mother Love” Crazy Woman Creek: “Room For a Small House” Arlys Winkler – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Outhouse of Memories” Shelagh Wisdom – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Magic and Miracles” Marianne Hoffman Woeppel – Nebraska Crazy Woman Creek: “Popcorn in the ER” Jane Elkington Wohl – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “At Fort Phil Kearney” Woven On the Wind: “Daily Acts of Courage” & “Below Zero—December” Katherine Wood – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Plains Preponderance” Lucy L. Woodward – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “The Lady Who Knew How to Live” Carole Workman-Allen – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “Passion’s Climate” Cheryl Anderson Wright – Wyoming Woven On the Wind: “Homemade Noodles” Crazy Woman Creek: “The Brown Sofa” Patty Zeigler – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Gifts from the Sky” Crazy Woman Creek: “Bound” Mary Zelinka – Oregon Crazy Woman Creek: “Never Silent Again” back to alphabet back to top Contributors Appearing in All Three Books: Sixteen contributors have work appearing in all three anthologies. Virginia Bennett – California Leaning Into the Wind: “The Dead Yearling” Woven On the Wind: “Tapestry of Knots” Crazy Woman Creek: “Object of Affection” B. J. Buckley – Montana Leaning Into the Wind: “Mad Alyce as St. Therese” & “Mending Fence” Woven On the Wind: “A Man’s Work” & “The Woman Listening on the Party Line” Crazy Woman Creek: “Superior Laundry, Sheridan, Wyoming” & “Funeral Meats” Gaydell Collier – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Wyoming Bound” Woven On the Wind: “Knowing with the Heart” Crazy Woman Creek: “AfterWord” Nancy Curtis – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Cowmoms” Woven On the Wind: “La-vin-i-a” Crazy Woman Creek: “Checkup, Checkout” Norma Nelson Duppler – North Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Adjustments” Woven On the Wind: “Secret Sin” Crazy Woman Creek: “When the World Split” Shannon Dyer – Colorado Leaning Into the Wind: “The Auction” Woven On the Wind: “Girls’ Night Out” Crazy Woman Creek: “Wolf Pack in the School District” Twyla Hansen – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Planting Trees” & “Instinct” & “Wind” & “Snow Crazy” Woven On the Wind: “At the Prairie, the Day Before” Crazy Woman Creek: “At the Greasy Spoon” Linda M. Hasselstrom – Wyoming & South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Intro: Grass Widows & Wrinklebelly Women” Woven On the Wind: “Six Artists at a Country Retreat” Crazy Woman Creek: “Intro: Beyond Crazy Woman Creek” Kathryn Kelley – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Witching Saint Anthony’s Well” Woven On the Wind: “That’s What Neighbors Do” Crazy Woman Creek: “September 12, 2001" Bernie Koller – South Dakota Leaning Into the Wind: “Mulberries” Woven On the Wind: “Lessons Learned by Hand” Crazy Woman Creek: “Concerning My Hutterite Cousins” Page Lambert – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Redy’s Foal” Woven On the Wind: “Backbeat” Crazy Woman Creek: “One Word at a Time” Phyllis Letellier – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Night Lambing” & “Tested Rules for Ranching” Woven On the Wind: “Whistling Girls and Knitting” Crazy Woman Creek: “Your Sister’s Keeper” Jeanne Rogers – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Ninety Degrees and Rising” Woven On the Wind: “Community of Stones” Crazy Woman Creek: “Re-entry: Homeward Bound” Marjorie Saiser – Nebraska Leaning Into the Wind: “Making Noodles” Woven On the Wind: “My Old Aunts Play Canasta in a Snowstorm” Crazy Woman Creek: “The Living, The Warm” Dawn Senior-Trask – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Never Alone” Woven On the Wind: “Wyoming Mother” Crazy Woman Creek: “Convergence of Horse-Crazy Women” Barbara M. Smith – Wyoming Leaning Into the Wind: “Transplant” & “It’s Good to Have” Woven On the Wind: “Ladies Aid” Crazy Woman Creek: “Boomtown, Babies, and Strawberry Pie” Back to top Lost and Strayed: If you are one of these women, or if you know their whereabouts, please get in touch with us so that we can notify these contributors of Wind Anthology news, events and any publisher queries to reprint their work elsewhere. Thank you. Lost from Crazy Woman Creek: Diane Kesey -- Oregon? Lost from Leaning and Woven: Noreen McConnell -- Colorado? June Brander Gilman -- Montana? Rachel Klippenstein -- Oregon? Mavis Bucholz -- North Dakota? Genevieve Eppich -- Colorado? Aryls Winkler -- North Dakota? Judith McConnell Steele -- Idaho? Janice Vierk -- Nebraska? Vivian Hamburg -- Colorado? Sharon (Frank) Graham-Ellis -- Colorado? back to top |
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