About the Author

Robert E. Wiltsey's life can be divided roughly into three parts; a carefree childhood in the country of Southern Utah; then into a "working-life," which began as janitor and steelworker, and evolved eventually into twenty-five years of teaching high-school; which ended as a teacher of war refugees from Asia, and ultimately economic refugees from Mexico and Central America. Needless to say, there was little time or energy for creative activity during this time, which was a wonderful, but exhausting, time. About 1989, Robert Wiltsey was liberated into an entirely different, but equally wonderful phase of his life; Robert was out of the harness, and had no excuses for not getting busy. He not only launched himself into his long-neglected poetry, and half-finished plays, but went out on a limb with book-length essays, more plays and screen-plays. As though this wasn't enough, he jumped into the colorful world of graphic art, with little preparation. The large canvases proliferated, with vivid color and form. When this man worked, he worked like a fiend! The poems continued, and a four-book saga, and four more separate novels followed; seventeen plays and screen-plays came miraculously into existence, another book of essays, and four experiential books which could be described as "lost wives and children" books, which related personal spiritual development. This happened in a timely fashion, just before the era of e-books began, and Mr. Wiltsey fortuitously met an author/geek/publisher, Yoly Fivas, who was a published author, who could find her way (with Wiltsey in tow) through the electronic-mazes of internet publishing. Together they fashioned a P.O.D. book, which was poetry about Mr. Wiltsey's third wife's untimely death, called "The Josie Poems." It grouped splendid photos of the Prescott lake area, around some of his better poems; it remains relatively untouched in its splendid-book form. Once that difficult book was done, the floodgate opened, and the four-novel set "The Woman of the Valley" series came out, followed by the novel "The Mexicans Are on Our Side." Then came the adventure of a "lost daughter," "Journal for Jenny," "The Sappho Poems," to be quickly followed by "Homelessness and Mental Illness: Two Plays," dealing with homelessness and the mental illness of his son. If past is prelude, books will continue to flow from this man.