CURRENTLY AGENTED WITH JET LITERARY ASSOCIATES
Breaking the Last Commandment (Mainstream Fiction)
Woman in White (Women’s Fiction)
Helping Hands (Romance/Fiction)
Casita de Luz (Cozy Thriller/Fiction)
Belle Fontaine (Historical Fiction)
UNDER CONSIDERATION, UNDER CONTRACT, OR FORTHCOMING
The Heart of Nowhere (Memoir), University of Oklahoma Press.
Beautiful Snare (Historical Fiction), Water Street Press.
Reluctant Traveler (Poetry), Conundrum Press
The Daily Kiss (Creative Nonfiction), Globe/Pequot
MEMOIR
When I Came West (Finalist for the ForeWord Review 2010 Book of the Year), University of Oklahoma Press, Spring 2010.
Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicles (Winner of the Beryl Markham Prize for Creative Nonfiction from Story Line Press, winner of the Colorado Council on the Arts Literature Artist Fellowship, and a finalist for the Colorado Book Award), University of New Mexico Press, April 2008.
FICTION
Side Canyons, Five Star Publishing, An Imprint of Thomson-Gale, Waterville, Maine, October 2004.
Side Canyons (Fiction/Reprint), E-book Version, Spring 2010, Garlic Press Publishing.
POETRY BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS
Cinch Up Your Saddle and Ride! (Ranch Verse), Western Trail Blazer, June 2011.
Accidental Voices (Poetry), Seven Oaks Publishing, Fall 2010.
Intimate Possibilities: A Haiku Journal (Women’s Gift Book), Filter Press, September 2009 (Finalist for the Willa Cather Literary Award from Women Writing the West).
Across the High Divide, Ghost Road Press, Denver, Colorado, February 2006 (Winner of the Spur Award in Poetry from Western Writers of America. Finalist for the Willa Cather Literary Award from Women Writing the West, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Poet’s Prize, 2007).
Red Colt Canyon, Music Mountain Press, Westcliffe, Colorado, 1999 (Includes the Writer’s Digest Award Winning Poem “Until I Run Out of Thread”).
Glass-Eyed Paint in the Rain, High Plains Press, Glendo, Wyoming, 1996 (Finalist for the Colorado Book Award in Poetry, 1997).
Braintanning Buckskin: A Lesson For Beginners, Dry Crik Press, Lemon Cove, California, 1996 (Poetry as an Art Tool Chapbook).
Blue Heron, Dry Crik Press, Lemon Cove, California, 1995 (Winner of the Dry Crik Chapbook Award).
CHILDREN’S
Little Dancing Fawn’s Tale of Christmas Joy, Snowy Creek Publishing, Fairplay, Colorado, 1999.
WRITING
Working with Words (Self-Editing Tips), e-book, Garlic Press Publishing, 2009.
ANTHOLOGIES
“An Elevated View,” An Elevated View: Colorado Writers on Writing, edited by W. C. Jameson, Seven Oaks Publishing, Llano, TX, 2011.
“Cherry Red Winter”, On a June Afternoon”, “Cotyledon”, “Witness to a Death”, “Blizzard Night”, “Five Strands with Stays”, “Hay Meadow”, Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West, edited by Laurie Wagner Buyer and W.C. Jameson, Ghost Road Press, Denver, CO, 2007.
“Red Fox, Wilderness and the West,” Hot Coffee and Cold Truth: Living and Writing the West, edited by W.C. Jameson, University of New Mexico Press, 2006. (Finalist for the Colorado Book Award, 2007).
“Patina,” Open Window: An Anthology of Poetry, Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, edited by Sonya Unrein, Ghost Road Press, 2007. (Winner of the Colorado Book Award, 2007).
“Miss Lorena’s Nightshirt,” Please Stay on the Trail: A Collection of Colorado Fiction, edited by Matt Hudson, Black Ocean, Boston, MA, 2006. (Finalist for the Colorado Book Award, 2007).
“Where There Are Wolves,” Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home, edited by Gary Wockner, SueEllen Campbell, Gregory McNamee, Johnson Books, Boulder, CO, 2005. (Winner of the Colorado Book Award, 2006).
“Teammates,” Unbridled: The Western Horse in Fiction and Non-Fiction, edited by Michael Engelhard, Lyons Press, Guilford, Connecticut, 2005.
“His Horses,” Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion, Gibbs-Smith Publisher, Layton, Utah, 2004.
“Growing Tomatoes,” She Flies Without Wings: How Horses Touch a Woman’s Soul, Mary D. Midkiff, Delacorte Press / Random House, New York, NY, 2001.
“There Were No Women,” Woven On The Wind, edited by Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, Linda Hasselstrom, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, New York, NY, 2001.
“For Brandy at Age Twenty-One, Sammy Blue’s Rabbit Chasing Days, Horseback Through Snow,” Cowgirl Poetry, edited by Virginia Bennett, Gibbs Smith Publisher, Layton, Utah, 2001.
“The Gift of Water,” Charity, edited by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Red Rocks Press, New York, NY, 2001.
“When I Came West, Madge, Smell of Sage, Bareback, Letters, Wooing the Wanton Mare, Sunderance, Kneading Bread,” Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream, edited by Robert McDowell, Story Line Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2000.
“Hanging in Balance,” Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write From The Heart Of The West, edited by Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis, Houghton-Mifflin, New York, New York, 1997.
Graining the Mare: The Poetry Of Ranch Women, edited by Teresa Jordan, Gibbs-Smith, Layton, Utah, 1994.
Maverick Western Verse, edited by John Dofflemyer, Gibbs-Smith, Layton, Utah, 1994.
“Sego Lily, Thirty Nine,” Cowboy Love Poetry: Verse From The Heart Of The West, edited by Paddy Calistro, Angel City Press, Santa Monica, California, 1994.
The Cowgirl Companion, Gail Gilchriest, Hyperion, New York, New York, 1993.
PERIODICALS
Women Out West, American Cowboy, Roundup Magazine, Mountain Gazette, Evergreen Living, American Western Ezine, Western Horseman, Horse and Horseman, Horse and Rider, Farm and Ranch Living, Cowboy Magazine, The Fence Post, Colorado Country Life, Colorado Central, Roundup Magazine, Senior Times, Cascade Horseman, Wyoming Rural Electric News, Kalispell Livestock Weekly News, The Backwoodsman, Great Falls Tribune, The SAC, Beef, Cow Country, Wyoming Stockman-Farmer, MSU Exponent
JOURNALS AND REVIEWS
In the Mist, Cimmaron Review, High Plains Register, Kansas City Voices, Open Windows, Writer’s Digest, Bloomsbury Review, Dry Crik Review, The Mighty Muse, Vietnam Generation, George William Review, Wyoming Writers, Rose’s Hope, Anthology of Country Poetry, WomanSpirit, College Poetry Review, World of Poetry, Word Weavers, Blue Unicorn, The American Muse, The Eagle’s Cry, The Western Pocket, Wish Women, Owen Wister Review, Valley Voices, Visions and Voices from the West, Poetry Today