After over 20 years making a living as a writer, it's not various awards, professional certification or even publications that Kay C. Peck, a Certified Fund Raising Executive, holds as her greatest professional honor. That single event came early in her career while working as a reporter for the Boise City News in Boise City Oklahoma. She had just published a feature article about a long-time blacksmith and machinist who was legendary in the region.

He came to her office and sat silently by her desk, obviously moved. When he looked at her, he was finally ready to speak.

"You do with words what I do with metal," the master machinist said.

It was the end of the conversation. He left the office saying nothing more.

It was a moment the writer will hold dear for the rest of her life.

Kay Peck has written and published thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, published a regional magazine, started and maintains a successful grant writing consulting business, and has written and published novels, plays and poetry.

She is a writer, heart, body and soul.
 

Jefferson Spivey

The spirit of the Old West is alive and well. Jeff Spivey helped prove that fact. When he took his first cross-country ride in 1968, he helped many people see that it was possible to have a dream and make it reality. That was true again when he made his second and third long-distance rides in 1984 and 1986, and it remains true today for anyone who picks up his book, Wind Drinker, and, through the pages, relives his adventures, challenges, triumphs and failures.
 

Perhaps the lines of poetry with which Spivey ends his book say it best:

I値l saddle up and I値l be free. I値l find a dreamer just like me.
We値l ride where we have never been, and we値l be drinkers of the wind.

Farzana Moon is a teacher and a book lover. She writes plays, poetry, short stories and historical, biographical Moghul sagas. Her collection of plays is archived at Ohio State University. She has participated in author/panel discussions at Clyde Library and Columbia University. Her published works in the sequels of the Moghul sagas are: Babur, the First Moghul in India; The Moghul Exile; Divine Akbar and Holy India; The Moghul Hedonist; Glorious Taj and Beloved Immortal. Her other published works are a book of poetry, Sufic Madness, and a novella, The Lady in Black. Several of her poems, plays and short stories have been published in literary journals and online. Currently, she is working on a book about the partition of Hindustan into India and Pakistan.