Tom Sheehan served with the 31st Infantry Regiment in Korea in 1951 and has been retired for 20 years. His books are Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short Spans, Press 53, NC; A Collection of Friends and From the Quickening, (Pocol Press) VA. More of his work appears in Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform and Milspeak Anthology; Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience. He has 15 Pushcart nominations, Noted Stories for 2007 and 2008, Georges Simenon Fiction Award, and was included in Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009 and nominated for Best of the Web 2010 and 2011. He has 230 short stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, which calls on his great interest in our early west, with three proposals being proffered. Print issues include Rosebud 4, Ocean Magazine 7 among others. He has hundreds of internet publications of prose and poetry, and has published three novels, An Accountable Death, Vigilantes East, and Death for the Phantom Receiver, an NFL mystery and poetry collections that include This Rare Earth and Other Flights, Ah, Devon Unbowed, The Saugus Book and Reflections from Vinegar Hill.
Linda Woods is an avid photographer and artist. She teaches art to Children at St. John's School in Houston, Texas where she was awarded the Zilkha Chair in Fine Arts in 2010. As one of her teaching passions, Linda has placed the artwork of her children at Texas Children's Hospital, The Ronald McDonald House, and DePelchin Children's Home. Three of her young students donated a mural that now belongs to the collection of the September 11th Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero.
As for her own artwork, Linda finds a wealth of artistic and photographic inspiration in the Chappell Hill, Texas area surrounding the farmhouse that she shares with her husband, author and photographer, Christopher Woods. Linda's special photographic passion is photographing a large herd of Gypsy Vanner Horses for The Magic Gypsy Ranch in Chappell Hill. Her other passions are portraits of people with their animals, landscape, and nature photography. Linda's work has been published in Gypsy Horse Journal, Parelli's Savvy Times Magazine, Platte Valley Review, De La Mancha, Talking Writing, JPG Magazine, and The Write Place at the Write Time. Together, Chris and Linda own Moonbird Hill Photography, www.moonbirdhill.exposuremanager.com, where you can see more of their work.