Staff
Sharon Oard Warner
Director
Sharon Oard Warner, founding director of the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico. Recently, she has been instrumental in the development of the University’s new MFA in Creative Writing and in contributing to the proposal that put the D.H. Lawrence Ranch on the National Register of Historic Places.
Professor Warner's stories and essays have appeared in a number of publications, including Sonora Review, Green Mountains Review, Other Voices, The Year's Best Writing on Writing, The AWP Chronicle, Studies in Short Fiction, The Writer, and The Writer's Digest. She has reviewed books for The Kansas City Star, The Dallas Morning News, The Des Moines Register, and The New York Times.
Her novel Deep in the Heart, which concerns both sides
of the continuing crisis over abortion, appeared in paperback
from Delta Trade Paperbacks in 2001. Simon & Schuster of
Australia/New Zealand issued it in 2002, and recently The House
of Books has released a Dutch edition. Her article, "What We
Write About When We Write About Love," appeared in the November
2002 issue of The Writer, and her story, "Signs of
Life" was published in the Spring 2003 issue of Prairie
Schooner.
Barbara van Buskirk
Assistant Director
Barbara has lived and worked in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,
on a sailboat cruising the Intracoastal Waterway, and in Florida
and New Mexico. She is a professional artist and writer whose
long-term day jobs have been in administration and communications
in a variety of settings. “My husband and I live in a
little cluster of Bart Prince townhouses in Albuquerque. We
love art, cooking, reading, walking, and traveling to visit
family and friends or just for a change of scenery.”
