Floating Words Poetry Reunites a Storied Duo: Poets Robyn Hunt & Wren Propp

POET BIOS:
Wren Propp worked at daily newspapers in northern New Mexico for nearly twenty-five years, including the Daily Times in Farmington, the Albuquerque Journal’s Northern Bureau in Santa Fe, and the Los Alamos Monitor. She started at the Daily Lobo at the University of New Mexico while working on her bachelor’s degree, and then got a job as an editorial assistant in the newsroom at the Albuquerque Tribune. She also wrote poetry throughout, publishing in UNM’s literary magazine, until her move to Santa Fe. Most of those newspapers no longer exist. She joined state government in the mid- 2000s after the director of a tiny agency regulating the licensing and practice of architects in New Mexico, decided what he needed in his investigator’s position was a reporter. She continued to write while obtaining a master’s degree in public administration from the University of New Mexico. The classes she took had little to no fiction to make the load lighter, more understandable. For the past several years she’s worked to complete a series of fictional stories about working in a bureaucracy. At the encouragement of her husband, Karl F. Moffatt, she also wrote a long piece of journalism about the final days of “Otter” Olshansky, a risk-taking thru-hiker who met his death on a frozen, silent portion of the Continental Divide Trail in northern New Mexico. Available at https://karlfmoffatt.blogspot.com/2016/12/otter-olshansky-lonely-death-on- new.html

Robyn Hunt grew up in Santa Fe and crisscrossed the U.S. with parents and family. She always made her my way back to New Mexico, however, and has been home now for close to 40 years. She knew from the fifth grade that she would write poems. Her first language was English but she always put words down in shape, sound and color. She once ran printing presses in San Francisco and studied during the birth pangs of slam and the headiness of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry at San Francisco State university. Her first collection of poems, The Shape of Caught Water, was second place winner in the NM Press Women’s 2014 Poetry Division. Her next, The Fiction of Stillness, released in 2024 with Saddle Road Press, focusses on respite during her breast cancer treatment and recovery. Today she lives in her native Santa Fe with her husband and works as a development director for a social service agency. www.robynhuntpoetry.com

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