The OSVC Annual Poet's Picnic!

Wayne Lee (wayneleepoet.com) is a Santa Fe, NM, writer, editor and teacher. Lee’s poems have appeared in Tupelo Press, Slipstream, The New Guard, Writer’s Digest and other journals and anthologies. He was awarded the 2012 Fischer Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and four Best of the Net Awards. His collection The Underside of Light was a finalist for the 2014 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award; his collection Dining on Salt: Four Seasons of Septets was published by Cornerstone Press in April 2025; and his collection The Beautiful Foolishness is forthcoming from Casa Urraca Press in 2026. Lee is the host of the online Tuesday Poetry Practice community.

Rene Mullen’s work can be found in Santa Fe Literary Review, Blue Collar Review, Poets.org, and is the winner of the 2023 Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize. He has been on multiple poetry slam teams, on regional stages, and holds a Political Science MA from UW-Milwaukee and a Creative Writing MFA from Randolph College. Born and raised in the village of Rogers, Connecticut, he calls the Southwest home.

Sharon Niederman is an award-winning Southwestern author and photographer living in the North Valley. She specializes in documenting cuisine, travel, women’s stories and history in words and images. She recently returned to Albuquerque after 15 years living in northern NM. Her collection, Ungentrified: Poems of the North Valley and Beyond is her first published poetry collection.

Poet, photographer, translator, and social activist Margaret Randall was born in New York City and grew up in New Mexico. Out of Mexico City in the 1960s, she co-founded and edited a bilingual poetry journal, El Corno Emplumado, that published the best work of the decade. Taking active part in the Mexican student movement of 1968 and then living in Cuba for eleven years and Nicaragua for four, Randall returned to the United States in 1984, only to face deportation when the government declared her writings “against the good order and happiness of the United States.” With the support of many, she won her case in 1989. Randall is the author of more than two hundred books, most recently I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary; Artists in My Life; Wild Card (poems); and Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations and More Letters from the Edge (based on correspondence from longtime friends). Most recently, out in spring 2026, are: The Calendar’s Whim (poems), Pages Lost and New (essays), and Letters that Breathe Fire (letters published in El Corno Emplumado).

Writer and musician Tom Andes is the author of the detective novel Wait There Till You Hear from Me (Crescent City Books 2025) and Guess This is Kaput: Stories (forthcoming, Cowboy Jamboree Press). His stories have appeared in Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2025 and received the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. He lives in Albuquerque, where he is a working musician. His latest musical release is The Ones That Brought You Home (Southern Crescent Recording Co. 2025). His first full-length record, Wonderful Days, will be released in 2026. He can be found at tomandes.com.

Dale Harris lives in Albuquerque’s Sawmill Neighborhood and helps coordinate the annual Poets Picnic at the Open Space Visitor Center. She is the author of five books of poetry and her poems have been widely anthologized. Dale was the editor and emcee for Central Avenue, a monthly poetry chapbook and reading series in Nob Hill 2002 – 2008, and an associate editor for the Malpais Review Poetry Quarterly. She currently works as an editor for Hummingbird Hollow Press, an independent publishing service.

Widely published in journals and anthologies—many in poetic form—

Scott Wiggerman is the author of four books of poetry, Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships; his fourth collection, Beginning and Ending with Emily: Ghazals & Golden Shovels, will appear in 2026 (Casa Urraca Press). In addition, he is the editor or co-editor of nearly two dozen poetry publications, including the best-selling craft books Wingbeats I & II: Exercises & Practice in Poetry.  A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Wiggerman, along with writer and husband David Meischen, has been running Dos Gatos Press for twenty years.