MEET THE WRITERS Rex Adams
has had work appear in The Georgia Review, Writers in the Attic: Song, New Plains Review, CRAFT, Sky Island Journal, Everyday Fiction, and elsewhere. He’s been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net award. He is the father of two young daughters. Currently, he resides in Caldwell, Idaho.
Genalea Barker is a native Idahoan with a lifelong love for the written word and an Associate’s Degree in English Literature. Along with publication in Rupture, her short stories have also earned her First Place in the Idaho Creative Authors Network Writing Contest (twice). An ever busy, full-time mom, Genalea writes, edits, and queries her work in between raising her four children.
Mara Bateman
lives in Boise, Idaho where she works as an acupuncturist and bodyworker. A native of the Paciic Northwest, much of her work relects that place, its beauty, oddity, and possibility. She is currently working on the publication of her irst novel.
Carolyn Bevington
is a Chicana poet and writer who published her irst book of graphic poetry with 10 illlustrators called Wide Eyed Wonders Graphic Poetry Project in 2019. Wideeyedwonders.com
christy claymore is a former adjunct professor of English and Humanities, an aspiring adventurer, and an explorer of the sacred. her boys are her very heart, and she inds herself while running wildly on the beautiful trails surrounding Boise.
Captain Bill Collier lew helicopters for 32 years all around the world. His “Rupture” story is but one small incident taken from his soon-to-be-published third book of his trilogy about his gypsy-moth life of daring and death-defying adventures and… misadventures. He retired to Sandpoint in 2008.
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