ÿþ<head> <title>Phaedra Greenwood photographer and author of book, Beside The Rio Hondo</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="description" content="Phaedra Greenwood photographer and author of book, Beside The Rio Hondo."> <meta name="keywords" content="Phaedra Greenwood, photographer, author, Beside The Rio Hondo, writer, Taos NM, New Mexico, short stories, book"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFCC99" background="graphics/gp-bg-0702.jpg" LINK="#000000" VLINK="#999999" ALINK="#0000FF" TEXT="#330033" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" rightmargin="0"> <div align="center"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b> <br><br> <table width="750" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr> <td width="400" align="left" valign="middle"> <img src="img/title-0701.jpg" width="389" height="71" border="0" alt="Phaedra Greenwood"><br><br> <table width="400" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr> <td width="100" align="center" valign="top"> <img src="graphics/logo-08-01s.gif" width="72" height="100" border="0" alt="Phaedra Greenwood"></td> <td width="300" align="center" valign="top"> <font size="5">Author<br> &nbsp; &amp; &nbsp;<br> Photographer</font></td></tr> </table></td> <td width="350" align="center" valign="middle"> <img src="img/Phaedra-1970.jpg" width="328" height="321" border="0" alt="Phaedra Greenwood"><br> <img src="graphics/t.gif" width="1" height="6" border="0" alt="spacer"><br> <font size="2">Phaedra Greenwood in Taos, New Mexico, 1970</font></td></tr> </table> <img src="graphics/t.gif" width="1" height="20" border="0" alt="spacer"><br> <table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr> <td width="600" valign="middle"> <span style="line-height:130%"><b> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Phaedra Greenwood is a prize-winning freelance writer and photograher. She has published two books, Beside the Rio Hondo, about her relationship with the water, the land and la gente in Northern New Mexico, and North with the Spring, a European travel memoir from 1985. Both are available from the presses that published them, from Amazon, or from the author.<br><br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Greenwood makes part of her living as an editor of prose and poetry and comes with recommendations. She is a compassionate, creative writing teacher in Taos, New Mexico. Her small supportive writing group has been meeting to critique creative writing for over four years. One of her students recently signed a contract with a publisher and a film producer for a manuscript that was critiqued, chapter by chapter, in Greenwood's class. The group is open to drop-ins. For time and place, call Greenwood at 575-776-2634. </b></span></td></tr> </table><br><br> <!-- Phaedra Greenwood is a freelance writer and photographer whose essays, stories and reviews have appeared in art and literary magazines and local newspapers. She honed her writing skills for five years in a peer group with Laurel Goldman at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She also earns her beans and rice as an editor and creative writing teacher. She has won numerous literary prizes including the Katherine Anne Porter Award and has had short stories anthologized in Fever by Harper/Collins and Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie by Iris Keltz. As a journalist and columnist for The Taos News, she received two first place awards in 2000 from the New Mexico Press Association for Best Review and Columns. In 1995 she won the PEN New Mexico Award for a short story,  Dogs and Sheep, which is included in her memoir Beside the Rio Hondo.<br> <img src="graphics/t.gif" width="1" height="8" border="0" alt="spacer"><br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Phaedra was a Finalist for the New Mexico 2008 Book Award and she has won first place in the May, 2011 Taos News Photo Contest. The winning photo and essay are called &quot;The Road to Nowhere.&quot; --> <table width="580" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr> <td width="360" align="center" valign="middle"> <table width="360" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr> <td width="180" align="center" valign="middle"> <a href="book.html" title="Beside The Rio Hondo"> <img src="img/btrh-cover-m.jpg" 114 height="169" border="0" alt="Beside The Rio Hondo"></a><br> <img src="graphics/t.gif" width="1" height="10" border="0" alt="spacer"><br> <font size="2">First&nbsp; Book<br><b> Beside The Rio Hondo</b><br> <a href="book.html" title="Beside The Rio Hondo">LINK</a></font></td> <td width="180" align="center" valign="middle"> <a href="book2.html" title="North With The Spring"> <img src="img/nwts-cover-m.jpg" 116 height="172" border="0" alt="North With The Spring"></a><br> <img src="graphics/t.gif" width="1" height="10" border="0" alt="spacer"><br> <font size="2">Second Book<br> <b>North With The Spring</b><br> <a href="book2.html" title="North With The Spring">LINK</font></td></tr> </table></td> <td width="220" align="center" valign="middle"> <a href="gallery.html" title="On The Way To The Swing"> <img src="img/gp-0803-m.jpg" width="120" height="170" border="0" alt="Photo Portfolio LINK"><a><br> <img src="graphics/t.gif" width="1" height="10" border="0" alt="spacer"><br> <font size="2">On The Way To The Swing<br> <b>Photography Porfolio</b><br> <a href="gallery.html" title="Photo Portfolio LINK">LINK</a></font></td></tr> </table> <img src="graphics/t.gif" width="1" height="10" border="0" alt="spacer"><br> <font size="2"> <a href="index.html" title="Phaedra's Home">HOME</a> <img src="graphics/t.gif" width="1" height="10" border="0" alt="spacer"><br> </font><br> <img src="graphics/t.gif" width="1" height="20" border="0" alt="spacer"><br> </b></font></div> </body></html>