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A-L |M-R | S-ZTALLMAN, KRISTY
Author, Kristy Tallman, is a Chester, Virginia based writer whose work is not your usual run of the mill writer. Her family origins are steeped in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. She has spent most of her life visiting the tales and learning the wisdom these great mountains and it's inhabitants possess as she visited family and lived a portion of her life there within the shadow of their mystifying allure. It is from this she brings to you the art of storytelling - passed down through the generations of her family with each member adding to her talents to keep you mesmerized as she weaves her tales.
Tallman has captivated awards and audiences throughout her life for her writing, her photography and her artistry. She has received recognition as a songwriter by VH1's sponsored Save the Music Foundation for two years running. Not only has she authored two published books of poetry under the pen name Rainey Moon, but she also has written professionally as a staff reporter for local newspapers. She has been the Associate Editor of a tri-city newspaper and has also been Editor in Chief of an online e-zine, which encompassed the arts, music, and literature. She has held national publication as an equine photographer and has carried this through professionally in the publishing industry as well.
Tallman's debut novel, The All-Soul's Faire, has received international acclaim, been nominated for prestigious awards and the reviews prove her work is a storm brewing on the horizon of great authors. Her writing has been compared to some of the top players in her league including Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, Thomas Harris, Clive Cussler, H.P. Lovecraft and Alfred Hitchcock at his best. Praised by her peers, critics, and her readers, Tallman continues to climb on the best sellers lists locally and nationally being in the top 100 New Releases by Barnes & Nobles and the top 50 Best Sellers locally even after a year of old Cecil's Hicks first appearance.
Tallman was also a part of the Nox Anthology which is a collection of dark poets against abuse - for each book sold it's entire proceeds go directly to a safe haven for battered women.
VANDERHOOFT, JOSELLE
JoSelle Vanderhooft was born on August 5, 1980 in Framingham, Massachusetts when Leo ruled but Gemini was on the rise. By no means a young woman yet, she nonetheless migrated West to Salt Lake City just like her pioneering Mormon ancestors, and she currently calls this city of salt and sand her home. She wrote her first produced play at 16 and graduated from the University of Utah with honors bachelor degrees in English and Theatre Studies. While studying here she received the Steffenson-Cannon fellowship which she held from 1999-2001. She also served as literary intern for several theatres including New Dramatists, The Women's Project and Productions and the Actors Theatre of Louisville.
A dramaturg and something of a lapsed playwright, Vanderhooft now works as a freelance journalist, poet and fiction writer. Her work has appeared or will soon appear in print and online in such venues as Aofie's Kiss, Byzarium, Cabinet des Fées, Jabberwocky, Not One of Us, MYTHIC, Mythic Delirium, Reflections Edge, Star*Line and several others.
Her first collection 10,000 Several Doors was released as an e-book from Cat's Eye Publishing on Christmas, 2005. It will be available in print form in 2007. A poetry chap book, Desert Songs, about Vanderhooft's experiences living in Utah, will be released from Cross Cultural Communications in autumn, 2006.
Her first novel The Tale of the Miller's Daughter was released from Papaveria Press in June, 2006 and her second, Owl Skin, is forthcoming in December of the same year. She edited the Torquere Press anthology of lesbian fairytales Sleeping Beauty, Indeed and is currently editing Tiresias Revisited: Magical Tales for Transfolk for Lethe Press (to be released April, 2007). For more on Vanderhooft's editing projects, please visit the Submissions page.
As a critic, Vanderhooft reviews novels, poetry and short story collections for The Pedestal Magazine, Star*Line and other such publications. She has also regularly writes critically about children's literature (the Harry Potter novels particularly), film, television and Utah culture.
The next two years will see the publication of several of Vanderhooft's works including The Claudius Trilogy and a series of four short story and poetry collections from Papaveria Press.
Bio quoted from JoSelle's website. Please visit her website for more information.