Among Friends: Books Published or in Press in '08-09

Just to show it does happen, a list of recent book publications/acceptances (2008 and early 2009) by local writers I personally know and like:

• Claire Applewhite, The Wrong Side of Memphis (L&L Dreamspell), novel
• Mary Ann deGrandpre Kelly, Marlene Miller, Niki Nymark, Marilyn Probe*: Nothing Smaller than Your Elbow (Bluestem), poetry
• Mary Ruth Donnelly: Weaving the Light (Cherry Pie Press), poetry chapbook
• Pamela Garvey, Fear (Finishing Line Press), poetry chapbook
• Colleen McKee* and Amanda Stiebel, Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak About Health Care in America (Penultimate), anthology
• J. Roger Nelson*, The God Whom Moses Knew (Thomas Nelson), novel
• Niki Nymark, A Stranger Here Myself (Cherry Pie Press), poetry chapbook
• Angie O’Gorman*, The Book of Sins (PlainView Press), novel.
• Catherine Rankovic: Fame: Writers in St. Louis in the 1990s (Penultimate), nonfiction
• Suzanne Rhodenbaugh, The Whole Shebang (Word Press), poetry
  

*=formerly my student!

I would LOVE to see in this list next year:

Denise Bogard (novel)
Janet Edwards* (nonfiction)
Rebecca Ellis (poetry)
Matt Freeman (poetry)
Julia Gordon-Bramer (poetry)
Susan Grigsby* (poetry)
Tim Leach (poetry)
Steven Schreiner (poetry)
-- and YOU.