Rob Mohr

Rob Mohr has a MFA in painting and MA in Art History and is active in the local visual arts community in Ajijic, Mexico. He also participates in several local writers groups, and in the past year has had short stories and poems published in national and international journals including Lake Chapala’s prestigious Ojo del […]

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Shep Lenchek

I started my “writing career” at Stamford High School in 1937 when I was editor of the school newspaper. We were members of the Scholastic Press Association, sponsored by the Columbia University School of Journalism and attended two seminars a year. (Fall and Spring) I played football and baseball in high school so upon graduation […]

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Teresa Kendrick

Teresa A. Kendrick is a professional journalist, writer, researcher, editor, and publicist who has lived and worked full-time in Mexico since 1994. She is the author of the book, “Mexico’s Lake Chapala and Ajijic: The Insiders Guide to the Northshore for International Travelers,” published in June 2000, and numerous articles on travel, fine art, folk […]

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Sophie Annan Jensen

Sophie Annan Jensen is a retired reporter and editor (Santa Rosa Press Democrat, California; Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, Santa Barbara News-Press) who bought a house in the Lake Chapala village of San Antonio Tlayacapan after extensive travels in Mexico. (Coral Gables High, class of ’52)

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Harriet Hart

Harriet Hart is a snowbird who winters by the shores of Lake Chapala and summers in the Canadian Shield. “Born on a prairie farm, I knew early on that there’d been some mistake. My journey from Manitoba to Mexico has taken many detours: two floods, two degrees, four careers and one tornado. I’ve played several […]

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Cat Gonzales

When I was a child it seemed perfectly natural to write stories like my father and an uncle did. Another uncle was a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, so writing has never seemed to be a mysterious and difficult process. I spent large parts of every summer sitting in my tree house […]

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Larry Freeman

Lawrence Harold (‘Larry’) Freeman (1936-2016) was born in Toronto, Canada. After gaining a degree in industrial design from the University of Toronto, Freeman moved to California in 1961 where he qualified as a lawyer in 1970. He worked in the legal field for two decades, including a spell as a deputy public defender. In retirement, […]

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Marvin West

After just 42 years with the same U.S. company, Scripps Howard newspapers, Marvin West took early retirement and left Washington, D.C., at the approximate speed of a failed politician fleeing an election loss. He had a retirement plan: spring, summer and football season on the original TVA lake in East Tennessee and warm winters on […]

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James Tipton

James Tipton lived in Ajijic, Mexico, on the shores of Lake Chapala, where he wrote poetry and enjoyed village life. His work is widely published, including credits in The Nation, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Greensboro Review, Esquire, Field, and American Literary Review. He is also included in various anthologies and other works, […]

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