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About Steven J. Meyers

Steve Meyers has taught creative writing, semantics and composition at the college since January of 2000. During that time he has also continued his work as an author, publishing several collections of essays along with poetry, various reviews and critical essays.

He has been a professional photographer, a backcountry surveyor, a ski instructor, a fly fishing guide . . . and for a short time he worked as an electrician in the Sunnyside Mine outside of Silverton.

Steve lives on a couple of acres northwest of Durango with his wife Debbie - a women's health nurse practitioner - and their English setter Egan (called Iggy). Steve has trained and worked English Setter pointing dogs for over a quarter century.

All of this, he would happily tell you, prepared him for his true calling: teaching. In 2018, Steve received Fort Lewis College's Kathy Wellborn Excellence in Teaching Award.

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Selected publications

Lime Creek Odyssey (revised, Pruett Series Edition). Graphic Arts Books/Westwinds Press—The Pruett Series, Portland, Oregon, April 2016

San Juan River Chronicle (revised, Pruett Series edition). Graphic Arts Books/Westwinds Press—The Pruett Series, Portland, Oregon, September 2013.

Notes from the San Juans; Thoughts about Fly Fishing and Home (revised, Pruett Series edition).  Graphic Arts Books/WestWinds Press—The Pruett Series, Portland, Oregon, September 2013.

San Juan River Chronicle. Lyons & Burford, Publishers, New York, New York, September 1994.

The Nature of Flyfishing.  Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, California/Abbeville Press, New York, New York,  April 1991.

Streamside Reflections. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, California/Abbeville Press, New York, New York, 1990.

Famous Water (poem), Sage Green Journal (online at sagegreenjournal.org), August 2015.

Phantom Mint (poem) and The Wing (poem), Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, vol. 4 no. 1, Durango, Colorado, Spring 2008.

Of Dogs and Men; Hunting as a Spiritual Way (essay), Parabola, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, New York, New York, Fall 2007.

Across the Great Divide (poem), Pilgrimage, Crestone, Colorado, Spring 2007

Alaska Railroad, vol. 1: The Great Denali Trek by Nicholas Deely.  Sundance Publications, Ltd., Denver, Colorado, 1988. (editor)

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Presentations and conferences

Fort Lewis College Southwest Writers Institute 2006 workshop presenter, panel member and featured author

Fort Lewis College Southwest Writers Institute 2005, workshop presenter and panel member

100 Years of the San Juan National Forest 2005 - Planning the Future, United States Forest Service, Durango, Colorado, Panel Member.

Durango Literature Series 1992: Voices from the Wild, featured author

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Grants and awards

• Kathy Wellborn Excellence in Teaching Award 2018
• Skyhawk Appreciation Award 2012 and 2014
• Teaching Empowerment Team, faculty stipend, Fort Lewis College Spring 2008
• Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Colorado Journeys featured author, 1996 and 2004
• CO-Visions Grant, Western States Art Foundation and Colorado Council on the Arts, recipient as collaborating author/poet with painter, Maureen May, Reflections on the Animas, 1992 
• Colorado Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, honored artist, 1981

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Boards and committees

• Colorado Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, juror, 1990 
• Young Audiences, Artists-in-Residence program, advisory panel member, 1990
• Young Audiences, Artists-in-Residence program, grant panelist, 1990
• Community Artist Program, Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, grants consultant, 1988
• Community Artist Pilot Program, Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, grant panelist, 1985
• Western States Art Foundation, nominator, Third Western States Exhibition, 1984
• Four Corners Art Exhibit, juror, 1984 
• Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, advisory panel member, community programs, 1983-84 and 1984-85
• Visual Artist Selection Committee member and juror for the Artists in Education program of the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1983-84 and 1984-85