Four Corners Writers began in 2017 as a group of local published authors meeting to discuss the craft and business of writing. As our meetings expanded, both in size and scope, we moved them to ZU Gallery in Cortez, CO and started presenting free writing workshops, open to the public, on the third Wednesday evening of every month. Then in 2024, thanks to a generous grant from the LOR Foundation, we formally incorporated, obtained tax-exempt status under IRC section 501(c)(3), and published our inaugural anthology of local writing, Four Corners Voices, featuring the essays, short stories, and poetry of over 40 area authors. Today, Four Corners Writers continues as an educational and publishing nonprofit, remaining true to our charitable mission of “identifying, developing, and promoting literary voices in the American Southwest.”
Meet Our Board
Four Corners Writers is governed by, and operates thanks to the volunteer efforts of, its Board of Directors. They are:
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 won the Colorado Authors League award for the Best Mystery Novel of 2022.
You can visit Chuck at www.chuckgreaves.com.
Mark Stevens is the author of No Lie Lasts Forever (Thomas & Mercer, 2025), The Fireballer (Lake Union, 2023) and The Allison Coil Mystery Series including Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire, and The Melancholy Howl. Trapline won the Colorado Book Award for Best Mystery. He has also published short stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, and Denver Noir (Akashic Books, 2022).
Bethany Turner has been writing since the second grade, when she won her first writing award for explaining why, if she could have lunch with any person throughout history, she would choose John Stamos. She stands by this decision. She now writes pop culture–infused romantic comedies for a generation of readers who crave fiction that tackles the thorny issues of life with humor and insight. Bethany was the 2024 recipient of the Colorado Book Award for Best Romance for Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other (HarperCollins, 2023), which was also a finalist for the Colorado Authors League Award for Best Romance (losing out to another of Bethany’s novels, The Do-Over). With Cole and Laila Are Just Friends (HarperCollins, 2024), she became a back-to-back finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Wes and Addie Had Their Chance will complete the Adelaide Springs, Colorado romance trilogy when it releases in July 2025. Text Bethany anytime at (970) 387-7811, learn more at seebethanywrite.com, or connect with her across social media @seebethanywrite, where she clings to the eternal dream that John Stamos will someday send her a friend request.
Gustav Hallin, retired critical care physician and aspiring writer, published the essay Covid Comes to Colorado in Four Corners Writers 2024 anthology, and is currently working on two medical mystery novels and a short story.
Gail Binkly is a career journalist who now covers local news for KSJD Radio. For twenty years she published and edited a newspaper, the Four Corners Free Press, in Cortez, Colorado. The Colorado Society of Professional Journalists honored her with its Keeper of the Flame lifetime achievement award in 2024. In 2023, she published her first novel, Trek of a Bird-Woman, an epic fantasy adventure. She lives with her husband and cats in Cortez, where she enjoys hiking and gardening.
Kevin T. Jones is an archaeologist and writer. He served as state archaeologist of Utah for seventeen years. He is the author of many scientific articles and monographs, and four books:
The Shrinking Jungle. An anthropological novel set among the Aché, hunter-gatherers of Eastern Paraguay among whom Kevin lived and studied as part of his dissertation research.
Standing On The Walls Of Time; Ancient Art Of Utah’s Cliffs and Canyons, with photographs by Layne Miller. Essays about and inspired by the incredible art of the aboriginal people of the Colorado Plateau.
A Quick Trip to Moab; Insurrection In The Wilderness. An environmental thriller. Finalist, Colorado Book Award for general fiction in 2023.
Barbara’s Desert Café. A quirky quasi-historical novel.
Lisa C. Taylor is the author of the novel, The Shape of What Remains (2025), two short story collections, and three poetry collections. Her honors include the Hugo House New Works Fiction Award, an AWP Spotlight feature, Pushcart and Best-of-the-Net nominations in fiction and poetry, and the Elizabeth Shanley Gerson Honor (along with Geraldine Mills) at University of Connecticut. Lisa holds an MFA in Creative Writing. Lisa co-directs the Mesa Verde Writers Conference and Literary Festival in Mancos. You can find out more about Lisa at www.lisactaylor.com
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