Meet the Authors!
Tiffany Roberts
Self-Improvement
Tiffany Roberts, Locust Grove, is the president of Psychosomatic University and has degrees in various areas of natural medicine. She has written several books on self-development and encouragement. Her specialty is working with woman and children in releasing traumas and repressed emotions hindering the optimal potential within.
Gabe Roberts
Healing/Memoir
Gabe Roberts, Locust Grove, is a specialist of psychosomatic illnesses and holds several degrees in various areas, including chiropractic care and therapy. His newest book From Pain to Purpose describes how he reversed childhood trauma into a life of healing He has worked with patients from around the world helping them resolve their body’s health challenges by reconciling conflict in their unconscious mind.
Arya Roberts
Comic Book
Arya Roberts, Locust Grove, is a 9-year-old writer and artist who uses her imagination in drawing, painting, dancing and playing with her five dogs. Her comic book is about the fun adventures her family goes on, but in her imagination it is a different world. where her dad is a big troll and she’s fighting the troll. She is the youngest of four siblings and has a YouTube channel called Arya’s Adventures.
Natalie Ferrington
Children’s Books
Natalie Ferrington, Coweta, enjoys writing fun books with a purpose. Her books incorporate over 100 Sight Words so that early readers can enjoy her books while improving early literacy skills. When she’s not writing she enjoys reading and spending time with her family, which include her husband, Darrick, her three children, Bryce, Brock, and Annalise, two German Shepherds, Mena and Millie, and bunny, Twyla.
Bill McCloud
Poetry/Essays
Bill McCloud, Pryor, is an adjunct professor of history at Rogers State University. His two books are part of the curriculum at The University School of Milwaukee, WI, the University of Tulsa, and the Air Force Academy. The books deal with the Vietnam War. One is the big picture, the other is personal.
Bailey Burns
Poetry
Bailey Burns, Salina, works as a material handler in a local data center and writes poetry in her spare time. Her book “Between Fire and Rain: A Collection of Love Confessions” is available on Amazon and is a collection of poems written to a specific person.
Jimmie Tramel
Nonfiction
JIMMIE TRAMEL, Locust Grove, Etc., is an author and journalist who has been with the Tulsa World since 1989. He wrote a 2007 book with former Oklahoma State University football coach Pat Jones and wrote a 2014 book about former University of Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer. Tramel is completing work on his soon-to-be-announced third book, which will be movie-related rather than sports-related. A former Oklahoma sports writer of the year, Tramel left the Tulsa World’s sports department in 2014 to write about pop culture for the newspaper’s entertainment department. Born in Pryor and raised in Locust Grove, he spent four years working for the Daily Times in Pryor before joining the Tulsa World. He helps organize the Pryor Creek Comic Convention, an annual event which benefits the Pryor Area Arts and Humanities Council.
David Jennings
Poetry & Photography
David Jennings, Broken Arrow, is a rehabilitation physician at Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center, as well as an amateur photographer and writer. His first book of paired original photographs and poems, ‘The Smallest Hint,’ was published in September 2022, and was a 2023 Oklahoma Book Award winner in the photography division. His next book of photographs and poems, ‘Someday, Somewhere,’ is currently pending publication through Resource Books/Wipf and Stock Publishing. He lives in Broken Arrow with his wife and daughter.
Paul Juhasz
Poetry
Paul Juhasz, Oklahoma City, has had work in many literary journals, including Red River Review, Concho River Review, Dragon Poet Review, Voices de la Luna, and The Oklahoma Review. He is the author of three books, Fulfillment: Diary of a Warehouse Picker, a mock journal chronicling his seven-month
term as a Picker at an Amazon Fulfillment Center; and two collections of poetry. His debut
collection, Ronin: Mostly Prose Poems, named a finalist for the 2022 Oklahoma Book Award.
John Ketcher
Folklore/Fiction
John D. Ketcher, Jr., Pryor, is a Cherokee Nation citizen, a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant (retired), and a retired minister. He is a graduate of National University in San Diego, CA, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science. He is also a graduate of Saint Paul’s School of Theology with a Master of Divinity. John started writing in 2019 and has published five books.
Shaun Perkins
Poetry
Shaun Perkins, Locust Grove, is the founder/director of the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry, a teaching artist with the Oklahoma Arts Council, podcast cohost and poet. Her books include The Book with the Beacon Lights, The Book with the Broken Locket, The Book with the Good Intentions, Aware of Birds Missing, and others.
Ken Hada
Poetry
Ken Hada, Ada, is professor at East Central University, where he has directed the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival for 19 years. He has authored eleven books of poetry, including work awarded by The National Western Heritage Museum, Western Writers of America, South Central Modern Language Association, The Writer’s Almanac, ROMP and The Oklahoma Center for the Book. Contour Feathers, 2021, won the OK Book Award, and Sunlight & Cedar, 2020, was a finalist for the award. His newest book is Come Before Winter.
Shaun
Roxann Yates
Poetry
Roxann Yates, Locust Grove, has always been a doer. In 25 years of teaching, she taught four different grades. As an adjunct professor, she taught composition at a local university. After retiring from high school and university teaching, she worked as a barista and town promoter. Along with her sister Kelly, she hosts an Airbnb home and is renovating another home with her husband Jerry, to add to their Wonder City Cottages. When she gets the opportunity to travel, she does, wherever and whenever because she considers it good for her insides and outsides.
Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry 