WRITER IN RESIDENCE
Wolverine Farm Publishing and Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick House strive to be valuable resources for local writers of all genres. In order to better serve the writing community and encourage individual authors and poets to interact with one another and build a strong network, we present the Writer in Residence (WIR) program. Each month we select a local writer who agrees to be present and in good writing form at the Publick House throughout the month, and to perform a free, public, in-house reading or workshop.
2020 WRITERS IN RESIDENCE
AUGUST Riley Ann
Riley Ann is a musician & private music teacher in Fort Collins, Colorado, and a former high school English teacher. Her band The Catcalls has been featured in Relix Magazine, Denver Westword, Bandwagon Magazine, & more, and her music has been broadcast on radio stations around the world. More at rileyannsound.com and thecatcallsband.com
Special event:
MARCH Cori Storb
Cori Storb writes because she does not know how to build castles. Although she does know how to build epic treasure hunts, escape rooms, and miniature libraries with books the size of mints. She can be found most nights standing in old town Fort Collins holding a lantern which she uses to lure people to her escape room business: Somewhere Secret. She also spends years at a time traveling the earth capturing photographs and stories. She has been trapped on a pirate ship during a Canadian winter, ridden a camel through the desert swarming with clouds of black scarab beetles, and touched wet noses with a wild deer. Cori has a BA in storytelling. Her work can be seen at www.coristorb.com and instagram: @coristorb
Special events:
Language as a Found Object with Cori Storb, Writer in Residence, March 15, 4-6p
A Story With Cori–Writer in Residence Event, March 29, 4-6pm
FEBRUARY Thomas Ivory Jr.
Thomas is…
As the Colorado sun shine behind afternoonsnow storms. Reappear again before finallyset behind the Rocky Mountain. Peaksabove a valley where a pack of buffalowander. The northern ridge seek eternalenjoyment in the accompanimentof pine trees. And city wolverinesare howling at the moon! Cold winterstarvation for expression of self.
Thomas is…
a poet, journalist, and musician who lives on a farm near Severance, and found Wolverine like a donated book who kept being returned to the volunteer bookstore. Thomas is the co-founder of Beyond Academia Free Skool at Love Shovel Ranch in Nederland, CO.
Special event: Get Weird With Thomas, 2/29 from 4-7pm
JANUARY Ana Martinez-Casas
Ana Martinez-Casas is a Mexican writer. She has a Bachelor in Arts in Hispanic Literature and worked as a copy editor in a newspaper until she realized she craved adventure and started traveling the world. Her adventures have taken her to seven countries in Europe, she has bicycle-toured through Central America, scuba dived in the Caribbean Sea, snowboarded in the Colorado rockies, worked as a whitewater raft guide in the rivers of Colorado and as a backcountry guide in the Wind River Range in Wyoming, road tripped from Colorado to Alaska to rock climb, and has worked on a novel for the past seven years. She published a book of short stories, Flores inmundas (Flowers of Filth), in Spanish in 2014. Nowadays, she is very happy to study Tarot, translate her short stories to English, and to be Writer in Residence at Wolverine Farm. In the future, she will travel the world with her partner in a sailboat. You can follow her literary and other adventures on Instagram @anamtzcasas. Ana will spend her residency at Wolverine Farm in January working on a magical realism novel about the history of Mexico, from the time of the Conquest to the present day. She invites everyone to join in and write their everyday life with a little more magic.
Special Event: Magic Jars: On Magical Realism, The Extraordinary in Everyday Life Sunday January 26th, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm.
2019 WRITERS IN RESIDENCE
JANUARY Joshua Zaffos
FEBRUARY Sarah Paige Ryan
MARCH Elaine Wall
APRIL Ally Eden
MAY John Staughton
JUNE Ivy Hughes
JULY Tirzah Goldenberg
AUGUST Brent Applegate
SEPTEMBER Chelsea Gilmore
OCTOBER Brianna Van Dyke
NOVEMBER Hanna Doreen Brown
2018 WRITERS IN RESIDENCE
JANUARY Michael Bussmann
FEBRUARY Rico Moore
MARCH Sue Ring deRosset
APRIL Laura Pritchett
MAY Ed Hall
JUNE Jason Hardung
JULY Jack Martin
AUGUST April Moore
SEPTEMBER Meg Schiel
OCTOBER Courtney Zenner