Prose Month at SOMOS: Readings by Pat Pollard & Scott Jones
Pat Pollard: After a successful career as a commercial photographer, Pat relocated to Taos in 1990 and began to experiment with various media to express her own personal vision. The result has been a wide variety of mixed media combining everything from photographic imagery to construction, sculpture and found objects. For the last several years, she has concentrated solely on two-dimensional painting. A writer of poetry and short stories when she was young, Pat set painting aside to write a memoir, Long Time Lost, soon to be published by Nighthawk Press. Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on his sixth novel in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He’s worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. Now he’s on the masthead of the Prague Revue, and launched a novel last year with Southern Yellow Pine, Jupiter and Gilgamesh, a Novel of Sumeria and Texas. Jupiter was a finalist in four categories of the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards and won a 2015 Bronze IPPY and a 2015 Silver FAPA President’s Award. The next book The Big Wheel, arrived in March, and won FAPA’s Silver and Gold. River Rising is planned for release with Fomite at the end of the year.