Steve Gerkin Resumé
Books
4th & Boston: Heart of the Magic Empire, Mullerhaus Publishing, 2016
Someone Left the Gate Open, Gibbs, 2015
Hidden History of Tulsa, History Press, 2014
Essays: Magazines and Newspapers
This Land Press (literary magazine – print and electronic) 2010- 2015
The Unlikely Baroness, March 2015
Pushing the Sky: Adventures of an Okie Ace, January 2015
First Charged, Last Freed: The Exonerated Czar of Greenwood, June 2014
USS Los Angeles Floats Over Tulsa, March 2014
Hay Is For Hosses, March 2014
The Odd Couple of Civil Rights Reconciliation, September 2013
The Malevolent Ones: Unmasking the Founders of Tulsa’s Ku Klux Klan, May 2013
Diamond in the Rough, May 2013
All About Bob: When Senator Kerr Ruled the Roost, December 2012
They Might Be Giants: A Pigskin Bushwhack in the Osage, July 2012
Standpipe Hill Seldom Stood Still, June 2012
Mood Swing: Oklahoma Fiddler Spade Cooley Played Rough, March 2012
Harry Sinclair: A Gambler, A Prisoner, A Legend, January 2012
The Ringleader: The Burning of the Coliseum, December 2011
Beno Hall: Tulsa’s Den of Terror, September 2011
Electric to Eco Trolley: Champions of Tulsa Transportation, September 2011
Creepy’ Karpis and Tulsa Central Park Gang, July 2011
The Man in the Box, May 2011
Cedar Street: Tulsa’s Proudest Thoroughfare, April 2011
No Phones, No Fools, No Frets, February 2011
Planet of Mushrooms: a Fungi Odyssey, January 2011
Grapes of Wrath, a Red Dirt Reprise, October 2010
This Land Press Anthologies
A Voice Was Sounding, Volumes 1&2, October 2012 – Beno Hall
A Voice Was Sounding, Volume 3, 2014 – Mood Swing
A Voice Was Sounding, Volume 5, 2015 First Charge, Last Freed
This Land Race Reader, 2017: The Unlikely Baroness; First Charged, Last Freed; Diamond in the Rough
The New Territory (literary magazine)
Jim Thompson, True Crime Novelist: Teetering on Hells’s Doorstep, Summer 2018
Edible Tulsa (cuisine magazine – print and electronic)
A Serious Focus on Cuisine: Chef Curt Herrmann, July 2017
Unique Master Chef Event in Tulsa: Chef Jonathon Moosmiller, December 2016
Chef Michael Fusco Remains an Icon, September 2016
Upwardly Mobile: Chef Sean McDonald, August 2016
Grapes of Persistence: Girouard Hybrids, December 2015
La Semana (hispanic newspaper)
The Challenges of the Hispanic Family, March 10, 2015
The Travails and Triumphs of Assimilation, March 17, 2015
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?, March 24, 2015
Teaching Credentials
Oklahoma State University, Associate Professor: Global Wine Appreciation, 2006-2013
Writing Workshops
Iowa Summer Writing Festival - University of Iowa
July 2019 – Whose Voice is This?: A Primer on Style
July 2018 – The Frangible Memoir and Writing About Nowhere
July 2017 – Fakes, Frauds & Forgeries: How to Turn Mundane Forms into Lively Stories & Essays and The Momentary MFA: The Essay
Conference Speaker
John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Symposium (Tulsa)
May, 2018: The DNA of Reconciliation
May, 2013: Tracking Down Diamond Dick
Wine Educator and Vineyardist
French Wine Scholar - French Wine Society
Regional Wine Educator for the Sociétè Mondiale du Vin
Former owner and grape farmer of Twin Feathers Vineyard & Winery, Tulsa, OK
Honors
4th & Boston - The Heart of the Magic Empire -finalist for 2016 Oklahoma Nonfiction Book of the Year
Commencement Speaker for the Platt College Culinary School
Commencement Student Speaker for Lesley University MFA Graduation, January 2022
Education
Oklahoma State University: B.S., 1970
University of Iowa: D.D.S., 1974
Lesley University: MFA in Creative Writing, Nonfiction - Graduated January 15, 2022