Saturday, April 12th

THE WAREHOUSE

Host: Leslie Leek
Readers: Rick Ardinger, Michael Corrigan, Andra Hansen, Anne Merkely, Ray Obermayr, Cathy Peppers, Gino Sky, and William Studebaker

Bookfair: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Reading/Book Launch: 3:00pm
Potluck: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Reading: 7:00pm

Rick Ardinger was a student at ISU. In addition to running the Limberlost Press with his wife Rosemary, he is a fine writer and the director of the Idaho Humanities Commission in Boise.

Michael Corrigan was born and raised in San Francisco and wrote an Irish American memoir about that experience in a book called Confessions of a Shanty Irishman (PublishAmerica, 2002). He has two other books: The Irish Connection and Other Stories (PublishAmerica, 2004) and Byron (Virtualbookworm.com, 2005), a thriller set in Idaho. He writes articles for the Boise Weekly. He has also been active in the theatre, and worked with a number of theatre professionals including Sam Shepard and Peter Coyote. He currently teaches speech for Idaho State University.

Andra Hansen will read from her children's book, illustrated by Linda Wolfe and published by Blue Scarab Press. Andra is from Idaho Falls (she taught for several years at ISU in English and Speech and currently teaches at BYU Idaho).

Anne Merkley received a minor in English, along with masters degrees in Fine Art, Anthropology, and Political Science from Idaho State University. She has taught art and writing on all levels over the years and was awarded a National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities travel grant for creative writing. She has had numerous poems and articles published by small presses.

Ray Obermayr lives and assembles words and colors in Pocatello. His published works are, "Double You Double You Too" and "Too Much is Just Enough," by Limberlost Press.

Gino Sky   (bio forthcoming)

Cathy Peppers holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Women's Literature/Culture Studies. Since coming to Idaho State University in 1998, she has taught a variety of writing, literature, and public relations courses. Just last year she crossed over to teaching critical and creative thinking and writing in the College of Business. She lives on a one-hundred-year-old farmstead in New Sweden.

William Studebaker is a former ISU student. He spent his teaching career at College of Southern Idaho where he taught English. He is a prolific writer of poetry and prose, has several books published and is a whitewater maniac in a kayak.