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In Search of Kinship
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Writing Down the River(Buy this book)

Shifting Stars
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In the Shadow of the Bear Lodge
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News

Brand new for 2008! for men and women!
Wyoming Horseback Writing Retreat
Exploring the Literature and Landscape of the Horse
featuring guest facilitator Sheri Griffith.

Read excerpt from Page's Wyoming memoir In Search of Kinship.

Brand new for 2008! for writers and artists!
RIVER WRITING and SCULPTING JOURNEY FOR WOMEN
featuring renowned Santa Clara Pueblo guest artists
Roxanne Swentzell and Rose Simpson

Page's trips were selected by Oprah's O magazine as "One of the top six great all-girl getaways of 2006!"

NEW!! Casita Consulting in Santa Fe!
Come to Santa Fe for a peaceful writing retreat. Work privately with Page on your novel, your memoir, your poetry. Come for a weekend ~ or come for a week!


2007 Fall Equinox Writing Retreat a Great Success!

"Thank you for the retreat. For all of it. There was such freedom in knowing that I had days to be immersed in some aspect of writing, without worrying about meals, schedules, etc. To be able to live and breathe writing for that long was such a blessing. The retreat fulfilled all my expectations and more. I felt invigorated and inspired throughout." - Danielle, South Dakota
 

 

About Page

“ In Search of Kinship is a book of wisdom. It reveals the intricate and powerful influence of land on human character, and suggests the importance of finding, and protecting, one’s true and special place.” ~ Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods

After several years in the corporate world (Page is the daughter of Loren Dunton, nationally recognized “Father of Financial Planning”), Page finally returned to her true passion – writing.  A recipient of two Fellowships for Literary Excellence from the Wyoming Arts Council, and featured in Inside /Outside Southwest Magazin e as one of the most notable women writers of the contemporary American West, she is best known for her nonfiction book In Search of Kinship , picked by the Rocky Mountain News as “one of the summer's hottest reads”.  The Midwest Book Review out of Wisconsin had this to say about the trade paperback edition: “…a rare privilege to read such writing… In Search of Kinship is to be kept, treasured, and returned to, for the glints and patina reflected in it are soul-enlightening.” 

Lambert was one of 15 writers selected from around the nation to contribute to Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of Grand Canyon (winner of the Willa Cather Award, Kathleen Jo Ryan, producer/photographer, www.kjryan.com ).  Also a PBS video, Hugh Sidey of Time Magazine said, “This is more than a book of stunning photographs and gripping words. This is scripture from the depths of our remaining wilderness. Writing Down the River may be the most unique adventure book of the year….” The Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport featured a six-month exhibit of the book from May to October, 2004, and the Grand Canyon Association will be exhibiting the display at the historic Kolb Studio on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon until February 20, 2005.

March of 2005, Lambert's novel Shifting Stars (a finalist for the Mountains and Plains Book Award) was released in unabridged audio.  In the fall of 2004, Shifting Stars was selected by the Wyoming Humanities Council as the top choice for the on-line “Journey through Wyoming” book discussion program. Library Journal called Lambert's novel “a powerful story…highly recommended.”  The Salt Lake City Tribune called it “a successful foray into mythic storytelling…admirable characters.”  Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, wrote, “Lambert uses the spirit of human kinship to create an absorbing story…beautiful.” 

Wilderness Retreat : Prior to moving to the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of New Mexico, Page spent an inspiring month alone in a remote cabin in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming on a solo writing retreat: “No electricity, no computer, no television, no radio, no palm pilot, no telephone, no running water, no people – just half a dozen blank writing journals, a few good books, and the company of elk and mule deer, mountain lions and blue grouse.” She is currently working on the manuscript Sweetwater, drawn from her journals.

Fellowships, Awards, Organizations

In addition to the two Fellowships for Literary Excellence awarded by the Wyoming Arts Council in prose and poetry, Lambert has received six additional literary awards. An excerpt from her nonfiction work-in-progress Sweetwater: A Mountain Cabin, A Life Unfolding was a finalist for the 2006 Mad Blood Literary Award. Padma Jared Thornlyre, editor of Mad Blood, had this to say about the manuscript: “Not only was Sweetwater a finalist, it was one of five super-finalists so closely packed that I had to bring in another judge to select the winner… and I nearly decided to split the award… the 2nd section rose to the level of breathtaking.” An excerpt from her novel-in-progress, The Exquisite Passion, was a finalist in the national 2005 Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, Short Fiction Award. In the fall of 2004, Shifting Stars (a Mountains and Plains Book Award finalist) was selected by the Wyoming Humanities Council as the top choice for the on-line book discussion program, “Journey through Wyoming.” Awarded a Winter 2003 Fellowship at the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Wyoming, Page is a board member of the Colorado Authors League, a founding member of Women Writing the West, a member of Colorado Press Women, Bear Lodge Writers, and Western Writers of America.

Lambert is also a founding committee member of the northeast chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a board member of the historic archeological site, the Vore Buffalo Jump Foundation, a member of The Quivira Coalition (a collaborative organization of ranchers and environmentalists), a member of the Colorado Mountain Club, and The Colorado Trail. Her work has been aired on public radio and was part of the Nature Conservancy’s “Range of Respect” radio presentation.

On A More Personal Level…

After twenty years of living on a small ranch in the Black Hills of Wyoming, Lambert now spends her time exploring the Colorado mountains of her childhood, or hiking the desert near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she continues to write about a life in transition. "Living on the ranch re-awakened a deep yearning for the land, a hunger that was rekindled each winter when feeding the cows, riding horseback through the bur oaks, or hiking the deer trails. In Colorado, I reconnected with my childhood: eating wild onions in the summer, snowshoeing through the pine trees in the winter. Then, early this morning, the desert coyotes howled outside my bedroom window in Santa Fe, and I was instantly transported back to Wyoming. The coyotes remind me of the continuity of the land, and I am comforted.”