Longtime Casper resident Charlotte Babcock is the author of The St. Patrick's Story and Shot Down: Capital Crimes of Casper (High Plains Press, 2000), which won the Wyoming State Historical Society's history book of the year award. She was recognized in 2001 by the City of Casper and the American Association of University Women as a renowned author, freelance writer and editor.She has also published award-winning fiction, non-fiction, children's fiction, poetry, essays and humor in various anthologies including Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) and Crazy Woman Creek, (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), and Wyoming Writing.
Babcock is a longtime member of WyoPoets and is past president of Wyoming Writers, Inc. and recipient of that organization's prestigious Emmie award in 1983 for her outstanding contributions.
She is a founding member of the literary advisory panel at Casper College, and has taught classes at the college in writing for children. Currently she writes for Footprints, the college's alumni magazine, and is working on two new books.
At the Equality State Book Festival, Babcock will speak on a panel about local history at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18 at the Fort Caspar Museum and will be available to sign books after the panel.
