INK BRUSH PRESS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Independent Editor in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Special Adviser
Beth Hadas is an independent editor in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For many years she was director of the University of New Mexico Press, where she is currently an advisory editor of the Literature and Medicine Series. Among the distinguished authors whose work she published there were Rudolfo Anaya, Keith Basso, Stanley Crawford, William deBuys, Dagoberto Gilb, Arturo Islas, Patricia Limerick, John Nichols, and Gary Soto.
Job Titles:
- First Chairman of Its Department of Psychiatry
Job Titles:
- Editor, Retired
- Recently Retired As Managing Editor, Temple Daily Telegram
Previous Experience:
Editor, Times Record News, Wichita Falls
Carroll Wilson and Jerry Craven, publishing writers and long-time friends, decided early in 2009 to establish a press to publish manuscripts we like by writers we respect. We knew many talented writers who struggle with the difficulties of publishing in presses driven by commercial interests. We were also aware of how small presses have for more than two decades provided the only publishing resources for what were once called "mid-list writers." And we had kept up with the recent developments in print technology that lessen the financial risks for new presses.
Dr. Charles Taylor has taught university classes for over thirty years in Texas, New Mexico, and Illinois. After undergoing transactional analysis, he studied the role literature and writing might play in the processes of healing, not only for the writer but also for the reader. He then focused many creative writing workshops upon writers dealing with their own personal "knots" (as he calls them) and using their creativity in writing to begin the work of untying. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Poetry Therapy Institute and helped develop ways to use poetry as a key to understanding in order to facilitate healing. For more than two decades he has taught in the English department at Texas A&M University, serving for several years as the Coordinator of Creative Writing. He has also worked in prisons and in other special needs programs. His publications include novels, nonfiction, and poetry. He is married to Takako Saito. They have three children.
Jerry Bradley is the author of several books including The Movement: British Poets of the 1950s and his acclaimed first volume of collected poems, Simple Versions of Disaster, which was commended by the Dictionary of Literary Biography. He is member of the Texas Institute of Letters and past president of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE), the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association. The current poetry editor ofConcho River Review, Bradley was founder and editor for sixteen years ofNew Mexico Humanities Review. He has served as a member of the literature panel for the Texas Commission on the Arts and the New Mexico Arts Division. Currently he is Professor of English at Lamar University.
Among many awards Bradley has received during his teaching career are the CCTE Frances Hernandez Teacher-Scholar of the Year (2005), the Texas College English Association Joe D. Thomas Scholar-Teacher of the Year (2000), the Panhandle Professional Writers Unrhymed Poetry Winner (1998) and their Rhymed Poetry Winner (1997), the Boswell Poetry Prize (1996), the CCTE British Literature Award (1996), and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He was named Outstanding Alumnus at Midwestern State University, College of Liberal Arts (2002).
Bradley is the author of more than one hundred fifty published stories and poems and has published more than thirty critical articles and eighty reviews. He has received more than forty grants in support of his literary activities. Bradley's poetry has appeared in many literary magazines including the New England Review, American Literary Review, Modern Poetry Studies, Poetry Magazine, and Southern Humanities Review.
Job Titles:
- Press Director
- Publishing Writers
Jim McGarrah is the author of two books of poetry, Running the Voodoo Down, which won the Elixir Press Editor's Choice Award in 2003, and When the Stars Go Dark, which became part of Main Street Rag's Select Poetry Series in 2009. He has also written a memoir of the Vietnam War entitled A Temporary Sort of Peace that won the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award for Legacy Nonfiction and the novel Going Postal. He is editor, along with Tom Watson, of Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana.
Job Titles:
- Editor to Unsolicited Submissions
Job Titles:
- Editor We Are Currently Closed
Terry Dalrymple has published numerous short stories, articles, and reviews in periodicals such as Modern Short Stories,Cimarron Review, American Literary Review, Short Story, The Writer, and Writer's Digest. His stories have appeared in the anthologies New Growth 2 and Texas Short Stories. He is also the author of Salvation, a short fiction collection. In 1987, with funding from Fort Concho Museum Press, he founded the literary journal Concho River Review, for which he currently serves as fiction editor. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and holds the John S. Cargile Professorship in English at Angelo State University, where he has taught for thirty years. He and Lorraine, his wife of thirty-three years, have three children, Joshua, Phillip, and Sarah.
Job Titles:
- Editor Submission Guidelines