Jane Eppinga

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Western Writers of America, Arizona Press Women, the
National Federation of Press women, and Society of Woman Geographers

CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Arizona Historical Society, Superstition Mountain Historical
Society, Westerners International and Society of Woman Geographers.

EDUCATION: B. S and B.F.A. University of Arizona

AWARDS: The C. Leland Sonnichsen 1995 award for the best
paper in The Journal of Arizona History. My book Henry Ossian
Flipper: West Point's First Black Graduate won a Spur finalist award from
the Western Writers of America. My articles have awards from the Arizona Press
Women and the National Federation of Press Women for 2010, 1999 Arizona Press
Women Communicator of Achievement Award. .

WRITING CREDENTIALS:

Writing
credentials include more than 300 articles for both popular and professional
publications. My writing credentials include for both popular and
professional publications covering a broad spectrum of children's fiction,
travel, personal profiles, biology, construction, food, and public relation
pieces. My books include a biography of Henry Ossian Flipper, West Point's First Black Graduate, Arizona Twilight Tales, and books in
Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series focusing on Arizona towns
including Tucson, Nogales, Apache Junction and Tombstone. I writes regularly
for Biology Digest a quarterly
publication for high school science teachers. In 2009, Globe Pequot published
my book. They Made Their Mark: An
Illustrated History of the Society of Woman Geographers. That same year she
made a presentation on the Society of Woman Geographers at the 10th
International Congress of Women in Madrid, Spain. La Malinche is my historical novel about Malinche the mistress of
Cortez during the conquest of Mexico. The History of the Saguaro National Park,
was published by Arcadia in 2012