CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Doctor of Humane Letters, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Bachelor of Arts, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Secondary Teaching Certificate
WORK EXPERIENCE
Publisher, Say Yes Quickly Books, 2021-present
President, World Craniofacial Foundation, 2017-2021
Principal, Say Yes Quickly Productions, 2001-present
Principal, Sandstone Studio, 1979-2000
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Colorado College, 1985-2004
Contributing Editor, 5280 Magazine, 2003-2006
Contributing Editor, Rocky Mountain Magazine, 1980-1983
Managing Editor, Telluride Times, Telluride, Colorado, 1978-1979
Reporter, Telluride Times, Telluride, Colorado, 1975-1978
FILMS
Touch, a documentary film, director, producer, commissioned by the John E. Upledger Institute
Beautiful Faces, a documentary film, director, producer and writer; produced in association with the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights; winner of the Humanitarian Outstanding Achievement Award from the Accolade Global Film Awards; winner of the Silver Palm Award of the Mexico International Film Festival.
Two Spirits, a documentary film, producer and co-writer; recipient of the Monette-Horwitz Distinguished Achievement Award; broadcast on the PBS series “Independent Lens” and winner the 2010-2011 season’s Audience Award.
BOOKS
Daily Bread, a novella, Say Yes Quickly Books
The Sorrow of Archaeology, a novel, University of New Mexico Press
Picasso’s War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece That Changed the World, Dutton, six international editions
Beethoven’s Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved, Broadway Books, nineteen international editions
Out of Silence: A Journey into Language, Henry Holt & Company
New Writers of the Purple Sage, Collected and With an Introduction by Russell Martin, editor, Penguin
A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West, Henry Holt & Company
Beautiful Islands, a novel, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster
The Color Orange: A Super Bowl Season with The Denver Broncos, Henry Holt & Company
Matters Gray and White: A Neurologist, His Patients, and the Mysteries of the Brain, Henry Holt & Company
Writers of the Purple Sage: An Anthology of Recent Western Writing, co-editor, Penguin
Entering Space, co-author with Joseph P. Allen, Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West, Stewart, Tabori & Chang
ANTHOLOGIES
The Essential Russell Martin, a collection of essays and book excerpts, Say Yes Quickly Book
The Glen Canyon Reader, edited by Mathew Barrett Gross, University of Arizona Press
Where Past Meets Present: Modern Colorado Short Stories, edited by James B. Hemesath, University Press of Colorado
Higher Elevations: Stories from the West, edited by Alexander Blackburn and C. Kenneth Pellow, Swallow Press
SELECTED ARTICLES
“Holding Up A Savaged Mirror,” The Liberal
“Fire on the Plain,” 5280 Magazine
“Driving My Father Home,” 5280 Magazine
“Cities Under Siege,” New Statesman
“Die Locke Des Meisters,” Der Spiegel Reporter
“The Optical Aleutian,” American History
“Stepping into The World,” New York Times
“Space Inc.,” Science Digest
“Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: An Astronaut Describes Life in Space,” with Joseph P. Allen, Time
“Diary of a Shuttle Launch: An Astronaut’s View,” with Joseph P. Allen, Science Digest
“Let Me Buy You a Drink, My Good Friend: The Myth and the Reality of Indian Alcoholism,” Rocky Mountain Magazine
“Anasazi: Boom and Collapse in American Prehistory,” High Country News
“Writers of the Purple Sage,” New York Times Magazine
“The River That Runs the West: The Mighty Colorado,” Rocky Mountain Magazine
“The Great Western Shale Game,” Rocky Mountain Magazine
“Illegal Immigration: Looking the Other Way,” Rocky Mountain Magazine
“Be It Ever So Mobile, There’s No Place Like Home,” Rocky Mountain Magazine
JURIES
Colorado Book Award, nonfiction jury
Barnes & Noble Discover Award, nonfiction jury
PEN Center USA West Journalism Award, jury
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Colorado Book Award, Beethoven’s Hair
Book of the Year, Beethoven’s Hair, Washington Post Book World
Doctor of Humane Letters, Colorado College
CoVisions Fellowship, Colorado Council on the Arts
Notable Book of 1995, American Library Association, Out of Silence
Fifteen Best Books of the Past 15 Years, Bloomsbury Review, Out of Silence
Caroline Bancroft History Prize, A Story That Stands Like A Dam
Finalist, Spur Award, Best Nonfiction Book of 1990, Western Writers of America, A Story That Stands Like A Dam
“Book Plate,” Friends of the Denver Public Library, dinner honoring twenty Colorado authors
“Cliff Dwellers,” short story, optioned for film by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Official Book of the United States Pavilion, Expo ‘86, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Entering Space
Thomas Watson Foundation Fellowship, independent international work in creative writing
Colorado College English Department Commendation, Piecing, a collection of short stories
Dean’s List at Graduation, Colorado College
First Prize, Prose Fiction, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Student Writers’ Forum
Ford Foundation Venture Grant for Piecing, a collection of short stories
Honors-at-Entrance, Colorado College
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Desert Writers’ Workshop, Canyonlands Field Institute, Moab, Utah
Writers@Work, Salt Lake City, Utah
Tumblewords, Colorado Council on the Arts, numerous Colorado cities
Visiting Scholar, Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Carbondale, Colorado
Southern Utah University Creative Writing Conference, Cedar City, Utah
“Art and Literature of the American Southwest,” Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado
Artspeak, Wyoming Council on the Arts, Gillette, Wyoming
“Writers of the Range,” Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Steamboat Writers’ Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
ORGANIZATIONS
American Society of Journalists and Authors
The Authors Guild
PEN American Center
PEN Center USA West