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Rock Springs
Phone | 307-389-3127
E-Mail | rkempa@wwcc.wy.edu
Website | wiki.wyomingauthors.org/Rick+Kempa
Rick Kempa teaches at Western Wyoming College in Rock Springs. Rick’s essays and poems have appeared in more than one-hundred journals, e-zines, and anthologies, and he has been nominated for five Pushcart Prizes. He has authored two books of poems, Ten Thousand Voices, (Oakland: Littoral Press, 2013), and Keeping the Quiet (Seattle: Bellowing Ark Press, 2009). He has also edited two anthologies, On Foot: Grand Canyon Backpacking Stories (Flagstaff: Vishnu Temple Press 2014) and, with Peter Anderson, Poetry of the Grand Canyon (Fruita: Lithic Press, 2015). Rick earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona in 1987.