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Rod McQueary’s literary background is wide-ranging and varied. Rod is best known for his wry humor—and was once a featured cowboy poet on the Johnny Carson Show—but is most proud of his collaboration with fellow Vietnam vet, Bill Jones, and their healing volume of poems, “Blood Trails.” Rod has worked on a number of music videos and films for Red Motel Films out of Canada as Director’s Assistant and as a writer, particularly for a film called “Cowboy Stories.” He also wrote a syndicated newspaper column in which he shared his irreverent and sometimes twisted, rural viewpoint. Rod’s poems have been included in many anthologies, and he has recited poetry in venues as diverse as the Brain Wash Café in downtown San Francisco, and the NewYorRican in Manhattan to lots of cow country gatherings in places like the Progressive Women’s Club Hall in Deeth, Nevada and the Recluse Stars Talent Show. Rod and Sue toured Great Britain in 1995 with two other poets, Paul Zarzyski and Randy Rieman as part of the U.K. Year of Literature and Writing. Rod McQueary is married to fellow poet Sue Wallis, and they are a couple of old ranch kids who threw their outfits in together more than a dozen years ago and got married on the full moon in July. Their seven children, three of hers and four of his, are a varied and talented bunch of musicians, firefighters, writers, photographers and artists scattered all over the West. Grandbaby number one, Ezra, has just turned two Way down deep Rod and Sue think of themselves as ranchers, first, and writers, second. They have a little bunch of cows on the Wallis Ranch on Bitter Creek north of Recluse, Wyoming. These days they spend most of their time fixing up their place, making pretty things out of silver, and leather, and wood, and metal, and thinking about writing. Sue has followed her father into politics, and currently serves as the State Representative to the Wyoming Legislature from District 52, representing the rural outer rim of Campbell County and the thriving metropolises of Recluse, Rozet and Wright. |
