What sets Rosa apart from some historians is her ability to gather letters, diary entries, family stories, old newspaper clippings, and photographs and weave them into a cohesive story that's not only seamless but crackles with life. - Kathleen M. Rodgers, author of The Flying Cutterbucks

ROSA WALSTON LATIMER

PUBLISHED AUTHOR

Austin’s Flower Hill Legacy: A Remarkable Family and a Sixth Street Wildscape (The History Press, 2021).

The Spirit of Mercy on the West Texas Wind: A History of the Monastery of the Most Pure Heart of Mary and Our Lady of Mercy Academy and Convent (Commissioned by Martin County Convent Foundation, Inc., 2021).

Harvey Houses of Arizona: Historic Hospitality from Winslow to the Grand Canyon (The History Press, 2019).

Harvey Houses of Kansas: Historic Hospitality from Topeka to Syracuse (The History Press, 2015).  Received Notable Kansas Book award presented by First Lady Mary Brownback at the Kansas Book Festival, Topeka, 2016.

Harvey Houses of New Mexico: Historic Hospitality from Raton to Deming (The History Press, 2015).

Harvey Houses of Texas: Historic Hospitality from the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle (The History Press, 2014). Nominated for the Texas Christian University Texas Book of the Year award, 2015.

FREELANCE WRITER/PHOTOGRAPHER

Staff writer, Directions, international magazine published by the National Registry of Rehabilitation Technology Suppliers, 2014 – present.

Artist-in-Residence, Flower Hill Urban Historic Homestead, Austin, Texas, 2020.

Contributor, Las Vegas NM Visitors Guide, 2015 - 2019.

Harvey Girls, original three-act play. Performances in 2007, 2009, 2016. Accepted by 365 Women A Year: an international playwriting project focusing on extraordinary women in history.

Additional Publishing Credits:  Texas Highways; Houston Chronicle/Texas Magazine; Parent Magazine; Post Dispatch; Lubbock Avalanche-Journal; Dallas/Ft. Worth Living Magazine; Travel 50 & Beyond (National Travel Magazine); Look and Listen for Preschoolers; Living with Preschoolers; Kindergarten Sunday School Curriculum/Southern Baptist Convention.

TEACHER/WRITING COACH

The University of Texas at Austin Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, “Essential Elements of Memoir Writing,” 2022. 

Story Circle Network, Online Non-Fiction Writing Classes for Women, 2020.

Instructor, West Texas Writers’ Academy, West Texas A&M University, 2016 & 2017.

Individual coaching and online writing workshops, 25 years experience.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Executive Director, Caprock Cultural Association (2010 – 2022)

News Editor, The Post Dispatch, weekly print newspaper (2008 – 2010)

Owner, Ruby Lane Books, independent bookstore (2003 – 2017)

Director of Education, The MED Group (1998 – 2005)