The Wyoming Arts Council manages two writing awards for private supporters of the arts--people who make personal investments in public creative effort. This year my own work will benefit from that generosity. A trio of pieces from a collection in progress i call Familiar: stories earned the Neltje Blanchan Memorial award for writing "informed by a relationship with the natural world."

https://wyoarts.state.wy.us/announcing-the-2020-blanchan-and-doubleday-writing-award-winners

The trio included two flash pieces, "Flip" and "Horizontal" along with a longer story, "Two-and-a-Half" all set in a local triangle of western Wyoming and southeastern Idaho locations. The Wind River Range, the Wyoming Range and the Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge all bring their immense presence into these stories, and i thank them for their generosity as well.