Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays

by Chuck Greaves (Editor), Lisa C. Taylor (Editor), Mark Stevens (Editor)

Overview

Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays is a collection of writing published by Four Corners Writers based in Cortez, Colorado. The pieces included (12 short stories, 24 poems, and 13 essays) were gathered through a submission process in the summer of 2024.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798991995917
Publisher:	Four Corners Writers
Publication date:	02/06/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Chuck Greaves, the author of seven novels, has been a finalist for many of the top honors in crime fiction including the Shamus, Lefty, Macavity, and Audie Awards, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. His 2012 novel Hard Twisted (Bloomsbury) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a gritty, gripping read, and one that begs to be put on film" while his 2015 novel Tom & Lucky (Bloomsbury) was a Wall Street Journal "Ten Best Mysteries of 2015" selection. His latest novel The Chimera Club, the fourth installment in his critically acclaimed Jack MacTaggart series of legal mysteries (Minotaur), was a 2023 Colorado Book Award finalist and was named the "Best Mystery Novel of 2022" by the Colorado Authors League. You can visit him at www.chuckgreaves.com.
Lisa C. Taylor holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast/University of Southern Maine. She has three published collectionsof poetry, two published collections of short stories, and her forthcoming novel, The Shape of What Remains, will be published in March, 2025. Lisa's honors include the Elizabeth Shanley Gerson Lecture in Irish Literature with Irish writer Geraldine Mills, a Surdna Arts Fellowship that enabled her to spend a summer in Ireland, a Hugo House New Works Fiction Award, Pushcart nominations in fiction and poetry, and Best-of-the-Net nominations in fiction and poetry. She's received writing residencies from the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, Vermont Studio Center, and Willowtail Springs in Colorado. Her work has appeared in anthologies and numerous literary journals. Lisa formerly taught creative writing at a university and an arts magnet high school. She currently teaches online, presents at writing conferences nationwide, and codirects the Mesa Verde Writers Conference with writer, Mark Stevens.
The son of two librarians, Mark Stevens was raised in Lincoln,Massachusetts and has worked as a reporter, television news producer, and in public relations. He's the author of The Fireballer (2023, Lake Union), named Best Baseball Novel by Twin Bill Literary Magazine and named a Best Baseball Book of the Year by Spitball Magazine. Thomas & Mercer will publish No Lie Lasts Forever in April of 2025, the Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire, and The Melancholy Howl. Buried by the Roan, Trapline, and Lake of Fire were all finalists for the Colorado Book Award (2012, 2015 and 2016 respectively). Trapline won. Stevens has had short stories published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Denver Noir (2022, Akashic Books), and Crimes Against Nature (2024, Down & Out Books). In 2016 and again in 2023, Stevens was named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Writer of the Year. Stevens hosts a regular podcast for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and has served as president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter for Mystery Writers of America.

Table of Contents

Essays

A Massive Manhunt and One Mysterious Telephone Call by Gail Binkly

COVID Comes to Colorado by Gustav Hallin

My Last Normal Day by Caroline Brown

The Search for Ian by Beth Henshaw

Reflections on a Thursday in February by William Morris

Nahodishgish by Aidan Gaughran

July Light by Amy Grogan

in the space between by Dai Salwen

The Truth I Cannot Tell by Kathryn Wilder

Visiting the Ancients: On Horseback and On Foot in Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park by Andrew Gulliford

Lions, Dogs, and Inner Monologues by Maddy Butcher

The Joyous Cries of Children Playing by Kevin T. Jones

Learning How to Be A Good Ancestor by Amorina Lee-Martinez

Poems

You Will Never Leave This Place by Vincent L. K.

Navajo Tacos by Robert Smith

The Desert's Time by Emily Manning

I Like Reading Novels About Old Men by Peter Martori

Chaco Canyon by Tiffany Mapel

My Desert by Gennys Moulton

Procyon Lotor by Dai Salwen

the names in our throats by Sarah Carr

Mushroom Matinee by Stephanie Moran

Old Horse by H.C. Petley

Your Location Could Not Be Determined by David Feela

Alpine Epiphany by William R. Morris

2024 A Total Eclipse by Mimi Gorman

Water Holds Memory by Kendall Dixon Calhoun

Water Will Find You (because you belong here) at Cannonball Mesa by Renee Podunovich

the i that grows unseen in the desert by Kirbie Bennett

On The Road to Julius' Sheep Camp by Christy Ferrato

Ordinary Things by Danielle Desruisseaux

Baptism in the Anthropocene by Geneva Toland

The empty space of him by Elizabeth Long

Winter in Dolores as a Child by Ellen Robinson

The Ravens by Jessica Pace

Esa Minúscula y Constante Cadencia by Peter Baxter

Seasons in the Sun by Katayoun Medhat

Stories

Death Without Taxes by David Feela

You Always Wanted a Garden by Caleb Stephens

Lay-by Lullabye by Katayoun Medhat

The Cast Iron Miracle by Kevin T. Jones

The Tar Pits by Susan Washburn

Not the Superstitious Sort by Josh Jones

Sufficient Unto the Day by Grace D. Morledge

Fifi by Aidan Gaughran

Back When Koby Knew Luke by Danielle Emerson

This Glitch in Time by Anne Benson

Apogee by Sam Tezak

The Winding Road by Shawn McAllister