Carol Cullar:  

Carol Cullar, a long-time resident of the Frontera, holds the Rio Grande dear to her heart. In the '90s she was editor of The Maverick Press and publisher of The Southwest Poet Series. Her book, Wind Eyes: A Women's Reader & Writing Source, an anthology of 8 feminist authors) was published by Plain View Press in 1997. Cullar's poetry collection, Pagan Heart, was one of five Honorable Mentions in Salmon Run Press' National Poetry Book Award for 1995; Inexplicable Burnings, won The Press of the Guadalupe's 1992 chapbook contest. She is the author of four other chapbooks: Haiku, This Hunger, Life & Death, Mostly, and Maverick in the Chaparral: The Eagle Pass Poems. A short story, "Slim," has just been accepted by Holt McDougal for inclusion in their forthcoming 9th grade American Literature text, which will serve as the primary literature text for the next fifteen years in the U. S. and Canada with...Expand for more