Writers and Staff 2024
Cole/Nicole LeFavour is an award-winning journalist, fiction and creative non-fiction writer whose stories and essays have appeared in “The North American Review”, Idaho Wilderness Considered, and other periodicals and essay collections. Cole is a former wilderness ranger, Idaho state Senator, and the recipient of an Idaho Press Club award for best investigative news story, "Where Have You Gone Joe Albertson?” Having earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction and a BA in the evolution of cognition, Cole is also a former editor of the Berkeley Poetry Review, and author of the book Sawtooth-White Cloud. With both a novel and memoir in the works, Cole lives and writes in rural central Idaho.
Amanda Turner is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books including How to Be Awkward. Her first screenplay, Product of the System: The Kristopher Sharp Story, was recently named an Official Selection of the 2024 LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival. She hosts annual writing retreats in Puerta Vallarta and Todos Santos, Mexico. www.AmandaTurner.com. Her works have received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, Editor’s Pick from Kirkus Reviews, IPPY Awards in Humor and Travel, a Foreword Indies Award, an Independent Press Distinguished Favorite, and listing in BookLife’s Top 5 Indie Books of 2014. A former Writer-in-Residence for the City of Boise and Idaho State Parks, she lives in Idaho with her husband and two daughters, where she can often be found on the stage of a local community theater.
Daniel Stewart is the author of the poetry collection The Imaginary World, and a teaching-writer for The Cabin’s Writers in the Schools. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he won the Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace, and has published in BOAAT, Graviton, NightBlock, Prairie Schooner, Puerto Del Sol, RATTLE, Sixfold, Skidrow Penthouse, Thrush, Yes, and elsewhere. He's been a teaching writer for The Cabin since 1999. His first residency was at Garden Valley Elementary in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade. He's taught grades 2-12, and also teaches adult writing workshops, including The Cabin's twice monthly free Drop-in writing workshop. In fact, he's teaching an adult workshop entitled Tools of Creative Writing: Reading Like a Writer, for six weeks starting January 31. He's currently a teaching writer at Frank Church high School and at South Junior High. Last year he did a six week residency at Boise High. and taught the high school Urban Ink summer writing camp, and also the high school poetry camp for the last several summers.
Madison (Madi) Roach is an independent author with a life-long passion for words. She publishes under multiple pennames for her own genre-fiction imprint, Madison Vale Publishing. Before she first published, she was a certified Life Coach where she used creative nonfiction, self-development programming, and a growth mindset to connect with clients. Madison has published six titles across three genres and counting, with an upcoming fantasy project on the horizon. She lives and writes in the Treasure Valley with her husband and two dogs.
