About Our Contributors:

Dixie Boyle, a retired history teacher, now works as a freelance writer and fire lookout, and she also presents historical lectures and reenactments. Her latest books are True Stories of Frontier Women Parts I and II. In 2017, she won a Heritage Preservation Individual Achievement award from the New Mexico Preservation office for her book A History of Highway 60 & the Railroad Towns on the Belen, New Mexico Cutoff.

Jeanne Drennan has lived in the East Mountains with her family since 2004. She is an occupational therapist, women’s health counselor, freelance writer, and author of the book, Live Well. Be Well, 14 Healing Habits to Extraordinary Wellness. She loves blogging about health and wellness and making organic herbal remedies whenever she can. Visit her at jeannedrennan. com

Maggie Grimason is a writer living in Albuquerque. She contributes to many independent publications covering arts, science, and travel. When she’s not writing, she’s watching the birds.

Megan Kamerick, a journalist for 22 years, has worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans, and Albuquerque, and has produced and hosted shows and stories for New Mexico PBS, KUNM-FM in Albuquerque, National Public Radio, and Latino USA. She is the former president of the Journalism & Women Symposium and her TED talk on women and media has more than 272,000 views.

Chris Mayo relocated to the East Mountains from Prescott, Arizona, in 2006. He started as a freelance writer with Navy publications when he was in the service and has continued writing for a variety of trade magazines since leaving the Navy in 2002. He and his wife are the parents of two young boys.

Beth Meyer is a former teacher, private tutor, and certified Reading Specialist. She has taught creative and analytical writing in both public and private schools. She moved to the East Mountains in June of 2010 to join her husband, Mike Meyer, owner and publisher of the East Mountain Directory and East Mountain Living magazine.

Mike Smith is the author of Towns of the Sandia Mountains, a writer for the Weekly Alibi, and is at work on a genre-expanding memoir, Shadows of Clouds on the Mountains. His essays have appeared in Tin House, Booth, Eunoia Review, The Florida Review, The Baltimore Review, and elsewhere.

East Mountain Directory

Publisher: Michael Meyer

Editor: Rena Distasio

Contributors:

Dixie Boyle

Jeanne Drennan

Maggie Grimason

Megan Kamerick

Chris Mayo

Beth Meyer

Mike Smith

Advertising Sales: Paul Rothberg

Mary Safford

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