Texas Pages

Bill Bishel has been since 1999 a sponsoring editor at the University of Texas Press. He acquires books in natural history, ornithology, environmental studies, Texas history, gardening, and cooking. He has a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University, where he specialized in U.S.-Latin American relations. Over the course of twenty-five years he has held a number of editorial positions, including stints with the Organization of American Historians, the Texas State Historical Association, and the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio. For five years he was the book review editor of the American Historical Review, one of the most prestigious academic history journals in the world.

Barbara Brannon is marketing manager for Texas Tech University Press, which primarily publishes nonfiction books related to the history and culture of Texas and the West and other scholarly subjects. She has taught and lectured widely on the history and practice of book
publishing and is the author of The Ferries of North Carolina: Traveling the State's Nautical Highways (2007).

Gary Clark writes the weekly column “Nature” in the Houston Chronicle and writes feature articles in a variety of state and national magazines. His writing has been published in such magazines as Texas Highways, Texas Parks & Wildlife, and Texas Wildlife, and Women in the Outdoors. Gary wrote the text for the book, Texas Wildlife Portfolio (Farcountry Press, 2004) and Gulf Coast Impressions (Farcountry Press, 2007). He has won seven writing awards, and he is the recipient of the 2004 Excellence in Media Award from the Houston Audubon Society. Gary also co-leads nature and nature-photography tours with his wife, professional photographer Kathy Adams Clark.

Shannon Davies is the Louise Lindsey Merrick Editor for the Natural Environment for Texas A&M University Press.

Karen DeVinney has been managing editor at the University of North Texas Press since January 2000. Because UNT Press is a small operation, she is able as managing editor to do a little bit of everything, being involved directly in every aspect of the business except marketing and financial planning. She edits or supervises the editing of every book UNT publishes and acquires several books each season, including David Taylor's anthology, Pride of Place. Before working at UNT Press, she taught English composition and literature classes in area colleges and universities.

Susan Hanson is the author of Icons of Loss and Grace: Moments from the Natural World, and a co-editor of What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest. Her work has been anthologized in Getting Over the Color Green; To Everything on Earth: New Writing on Fate, Community, and Nature (forthcoming from Texas Tech UP); and Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark (forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press). It has also appeared in such publications as Northern Lights, EarthSpirit, ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment), Southwestern Literature, and Texas Parks & Wildlife. A long-time member of the English faculty at Texas State University, Susan also worked for nearly 20 as a journalist and 12 as an Episcopal lay campus chaplain. She and her husband live in San Marcos, Texas, and have a grown daughter.

Freelance writer and photographer Wendee Holtcamp covers conservation, wildlife and adventure travel which takes her to the far reaches of the globe - from the Himalayan foothills of Nepal to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia to the Peruvian Amazon. She has written for Audubon, Smithsonian, Sierra, Scientific American, E/The Environmental Magazine, as well as
Discovery Channel and Animal Planet Online. Based in Houston, she also writes regularly about Texas water, wildlife and environmental issues for Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine.

Joe Nick Patoski is the author and co-author Texas Mountains and Texas Coast, both published by University of Texas Press. A former staff writer for Texas Monthly magazine for 18 years, his byline appeared in the Texas Observer, No Depression, People magazine, Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, Field & Stream, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, among many publications.