New Book Release: Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays

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Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays is a collection of writing published by Four Corners Writers based in Cortez, Colorado. The pieces included (12 short stories, 24 poems, and 13 essays) were gathered through a submission process in the summer of 2024.

In 2025, Four Corners Voices was named the winner of the 2025 Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology and, in 2026, Four Corners Voices was named by Colorado Humanities as Colorado's selection for the 2026 National Book Festival.

About the authors:

Chuck Greaves, the author of seven novels, has been a finalist for many of the top honors in crime fiction including the Shamus, Lefty, Macavity, and Audie Awards, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. His 2012 novel Hard Twisted (Bloomsbury) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a gritty, gripping read, and one that begs to be put on film" while his 2015 novel Tom & Lucky (Bloomsbury) was a Wall Street Journal "Ten Best Mysteries of 2015" selection. His latest novel The Chimera Club, the fourth installment in his critically acclaimed Jack MacTaggart series of legal mysteries (Minotaur), was a 2023 Colorado Book Award finalist and was named the "Best Mystery Novel of 2022" by the Colorado Authors League. You can visit him at www.chuckgreaves.com.

Lisa C. Taylor holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stone coast/University of Southern Maine. She has three published collections of poetry, two published collections of short stories, and her forthcoming novel, The Shape of What Remains, will be published in March 2025. Lisa's honors include the Elizabeth Shanley Gerson Lecture in Irish Literature with Irish writer Geraldine Mills, a Surdna Arts Fellowship that enabled her to spend a summer in Ireland, a Hugo House New Works Fiction Award, Pushcart nominations in fiction and poetry, and Best-of-the-Net nominations in fiction and poetry. She's received writing residencies from the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, Vermont Studio Center, and Willowtail Springs in Colorado. Her work has appeared in anthologies and numerous literary journals. Lisa formerly taught creative writing at a university and an arts magnet high school. She currently teaches online, presents at writing conferences nationwide, and codirects the Mesa Verde Writers Conference with writer, Mark Stevens.

The son of two librarians, Mark Stevens was raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts and has worked as a reporter, television news producer, and in public relations. He's the author of The Fireballer (2023, Lake Union), named Best Baseball Novel by Twin Bill Literary Magazine and named a Best Baseball Book of the Year by Spitball Magazine. Thomas & Mercer will publish No Lie Lasts Forever in April of 2025, the Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire, and The Melancholy Howl. Buried by the Roan, Trapline, and Lake of Fire were all finalists for the Colorado Book Award (2012, 2015 and 2016 respectively). Trapline won. Stevens has had short stories published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Denver Noir (2022, Akashic Books), and Crimes Against Nature (2024, Down & Out Books). In 2016 and again in 2023, Stevens was named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Writer of the Year. Stevens hosts a regular podcast for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and has served as president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter for Mystery Writers of America.

New Book Release: Four Corners Voices - Stories - Essays - Volume 2 -

 

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Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays - Volume 2 is a collection of writing published by Four Corners Writers based in Cortez, Colorado. The pieces included (13 short stories, 25 poems, and 13 essays) were gathered through a submission process in the summer of 2025.

Gail Binkly (Editor), Sarah Carr (Editor), Chuck Greaves (Editor)

About the authors:

Jamie Nielsen is an ecologist and a returned U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, based in Flagstaff, AZ, with her husband, two teenagers, a puppy named Osa, and an ever-patient rescue dog, Rainy. Jamie’s writing appears in the Arizona Daily Sun, The Sunlight Press, Cleaver Magazine, Empty House Press, and she is a past contributor to the Arizona Authors’ Association Literary Magazine. She’s currently putting the finishing touches on her first memoir and next month’s Substack! She is honored to be one of more than 40 writers to be featured in the 2025 Four Corners Writers Anthology, Four Corners Voices, Vol 2.

New Book Release: Uncaged Birds - by Mel Goldberg

 

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216 haiku written over several years, many published.

About the author:

Mel Goldberg spent decades teaching literature and writing to high school and college students across California, Illinois, Arizona, and as a Fulbright Exchange Teacher at Stanground College in Cambridgeshire, England. He taught people to read closely, to sit with a line until it opened up, and to trust what a few carefully chosen words could carry.

He sold most of what he owned and spent seven years traveling through the United States, Canada, and Mexico in a small motor home - following roads without fixed destinations, writing along the way.

He now lives in Ajijic, a village in Jalisco, Mexico, where the pace of life still allows a person to notice things. His stories and poems have appeared in print and online publications across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Mexico.

New Book Release: The Sounds of Unspoken Breaths - by Jenna Tulonen

 

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What if the loudest truths were the ones that we never said out loud?

In this deeply moving collection of 100 poems, poet Jenna gives voice to the quiet struggles that we carry - unspoken grief, invisible strength, the weight of feeling everything and nothing at once. Her words unravel the silence that we wear like armor, and speak gently to the soft places that we often hide.

With lyrical precision and emotional honesty, The Sound of Unspoken Breaths is for anyone who has ever felt like too much or not enough, for those navigating the in-between moments of becoming.

This is poetry for the quiet-hearted -

for the ones still standing,

even when it feels like falling.

About the author:

Jenna Tulonen (J. M. T.) is a poet with a retro soul and a deep love for rhetoric, crafting work that sits in the quiet spaces where grief, resilience, and vulnerability meet. Drawn to what lingers between words, she writes to honor the soft truths we often carry in silence. Her poems explore invisible wounds, unspoken love, and the emotional echoes tucked inside everyday moments, offering readers a sense of companionship and recognition. When she isn’t writing, Jenna can be found scrapbooking, learning new languages, or singing along to ’70s and ’80s classics. She creates with heart, honesty, and just the right amount of weird.

New Book Release: Ancient Voices: Poems About Ancient Egypt - by Dawn Pisturino

 

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The Ancient Egyptians loved life and celebrated it with joy. Their deepest desire was to live an honorable life and achieve immortality in the afterlife, where they could exist in perfect harmony with the cosmic order and never experience pain, suffering, and hardship again. These original poems by Dawn Pisturino reflect the hopes and dreams of people who were not much different from us. They worked, loved, raised families, worshipped their gods, honored the dead, enjoyed festivals and celebrations, imbibed beer and wine, danced, sang, and played, aspired to better themselves, and appreciated the beauty and wonder of nature. Take a journey back in time to explore the minds and hearts of the Ancient Egyptians.

About the author:

Dawn Pisturino’s international publishing credits include poems, short stories, and articles. Her debut poetry book, Ariel’s Song: Published Poems, 1987 – 2023, earned five-star reviews and ranked #60 on the Amazon Best Seller list for Haiku & Japanese Poetry. Her short chapbook, Lunar Gazing Haiku, became a #1 Amazon New Release in six categories. Haiku for the Midnight Hour, her third book, achieved #1 Amazon New Release status in three categories. Her fourth book, Sun Haiku: 365 Days of Sunshine, climbed to #1 Amazon New Release in Japanese Poetry & Haiku. She is a member of several author organizations.