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MARIE ELIUM is a former newspaper reporter who left the field after a 10-year career so she could raise kids. The Medina, Ohio native started working for her hometown daily as a stringer in high school and covered sports. After graduating from Miami (Ohio) University, Marie took a job with the Lynchburg News & Advance in Virginia, where she covered local government and schools, writing feature stories and movie reviews. From there, Marie worked her way back North, taking a job with the Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio. She has written numerous freelance articles for local newspapers and for other publications in Ohio. She's also written and designed promotional brochures for Hiram College and other non-profit groups. Marie lives in Garrettsville, Ohio with her husband and two school-aged children. GORDON ENGLEHARDT, a long-time staff writer with the Evansville Courier & Press, Evansville, Ind., is also a veteran freelancer. He has covered two NCAA men's basketball Final Fours, the American League and National League Championship Series, the NBA Finals, several Indy 500s and two Brickyard 400s. In the process, he has interviewed everyone from Michael Jordan to Larry Bird to Walter Payton to Peyton Manning. He has also written several entertainment features, including Bo Diddley, Joan Jett, George Thorogood and Ray Manzarek, along with record, book and movie reviews. Gordon has had freelance articles published in Baseball American and several other magazines. He is a 1979 graduate of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill., with a bachelor's degree in journalism and minors in psychology and audio marketing. His recent work can be seen in the Evansville Courier & Press archives. DIANE FANNING has written six true crime books. One of her titles, Written in Blood (St. Martin’s Press, February 2005) received an Edgar Award nomination. Through the Window (St. Martin’s Press, April 2003) was featured on the Discovery Channel documentary, “Crimetime.” She has appeared on “Forensic Files,” 20/20 and with Nancy Grace on Court TV. She is currently working on two true crime books: one about astronaut Lisa Nowak and another about preacher’s wife Mary Winkler. Diane is also the author of a mystery novel, Bite the Moon (Five Star Mysteries, July 2007). Her periodical credits include The Baltimore Sun, Highway Patrol Magazine, and the San Antonio Medical Gazette. She lives in New Braunfels, TX. www.dianefanning.com. BETH FERREE has been writing professionally for well over fifteen years, beginning her career as a columnist and historian for a small town newspaper in Iowa. From there she went on to spend much of her working years as a business writer for many different venues. Over the past several years, Beth passed most of her time writing under various and sundry pseudonyms for many different clients. In the spring of 2006, with the last child headed out the door into adulthood, Beth decided to make a significant change in her life. She sold everything and headed to San Francisco, where she is now working on that novel she's been meaning to finish for the past twelve years. MARK FITZGERALD grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor’s of Arts in English from Franklin and Marshall College and his Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from George Mason University—graduating with Phi Beta Delta honors. He has studied in Strasbourg, France and was awarded a fellowship from GMU to pursue his writing in Oxford, England. His work has appeared in many periodicals, including the Crab Creek Review, Squaw Review, Poetry Midwest, Parting Gifts, and Out of Chaos. Mark has also written for the National Geographic Society, Governing Magazine, Outdoor America, Print Solutions magazine and ASCE News, where he is currently a staff writer. Mark has taught writing and literature at Strayer University and the University of Richmond. He currently lives in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife, Paige. JO ANN FORE is a freelance writer who resides in Tennessee with her family. Her recent work appears in publications such as Alive (Australia's Premier Christian Magazine), Home Life (A LifeWay Publication) Priority (Salvation Army's National Publication) Knoxville Christian Family, Youth Ministry Resources, FYI, The Warriors Walk, and more. A columnist for Online Dating Magazine, Jo Ann's weekly column "A Better You," offers self-improvement tips. And as a certified Life Purpose Coach®, Jo Ann offers weekly insight on how to find your purpose in life on "Ask A Life Purpose Coach." DENNIS FORMENTO is a poet, essayist & the publisher of Surregional Press broadsides and books. He edited "Meschabe: The Journal of Surregionanalism" and is the author of six chapbooks: Hand Signals (Acre Press/Fell Swoop); In Memory of James Black (Surregional Press); The Big Book of Holy Wars (with Arthur Pfister; Surregional Press); William Faulkner Lives and Dies in Camelot (BullHead Press) Ecologisms/Po' Boy Dressed to Go (Oasii); and Ra Blues Are, published by Upteem Press. His poems and essays have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Sulfur, New Orleans Review & many other magazines. His ongoing project is a series of interviews with New Orleans writers, publishers, musicians and scenesters during the heady days of 1950-1975, called the "Outsiders," after the seminal New Orleans literary journal, The Outsider. A resident of Slidell, LA, he is also working these days for the recovery of New Orleans. A native of Chicago, multi-talented BETSY GEHMAN has worked on Broadway and in Hollywood as an actress, singer and dancer, written newspaper editorials and press releases and served as an assistant editor at Promenade magazine. After marrying a musician and moving to Hollywood, she "fell backward into fame" by singing on a Disney cartoon soundtrack. Her voice was also heard in the legendary Gene Kelly film "Singing in the Rain." Trained at the Actor's Lab in Los Angeles, she was in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" on Broadway and was a regular dancer on the Kate Smith TV show in the 1950s. Betsy eventually moved back to California to work in promotions and advertising, then to Connecticut, where she wrote for the Hartford Courant and taught performing arts at Wesleyan University. Betsy currently lives in Lynchburg, VA, which she finds a bit too tame. NEDRA GOEDERT has written and edited technical manuals and box copy for software, web copy for retail products and edited technical articles for engineering and scientific journals. At present, she is a real estate broker doing investments and development in Hawaii for myself and for clients. She also works as a metaphysical healer and as a practitioner of vibrational medicine. Her healing and growth related work includes crystals, sound vibration, scalar energy and emotional work (which also has to do with vibration...). She is politically passionate (sometimes appalled), and believes we need to write and speak up about the direction things are going. Louisville-based LINDA GOIN focuses on personal finance, visual communications, and history. She's a weekly contributor to the "Mom Chronicles" at www.BUYandHOLD.com and a monthly contributor to Better Investing Magazine. She also contributes design articles to www.DMXzone.com, an online software distributor that has also published her E-books about Web design and Web accessibility. Her MIKE GOWEN is a Technical Consultant and Freelance Writer living in Winston-Salem, NC. Mike has written numerous parenting articles in the past, particularly from a father’s perspective. He also freelances frequently for the Winston-Salem Journal. Reach him via e-mail at mike.gowen@writedad.com or his website www.WriteDad.com. Mike also writes a BLOG you can read at http://blog.myspace.com/writedad. BEX HALL is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in numerous online and print publications. She is a member of WV Writers, the National Association of Women Writers, the Stepfamily Association of America and is active in a local writer's group in Huntington, WV. You can email Bex at: bexhall@bexhall.com or visit her website: www.BexHall.com. RAELENE HALL is a freelance writer living on an Outback property in Western Australia. She has written numerous non-fiction articles for magazines, newspapers and the net on a wide variety of topics, including education, the Outback, communications, nature, spirituality and children. Raelene is a regular columnist for the Midwest Times newspaper in Western Australia and www.writerscrossing.com. Her inspiration is taken from her life as wife, mother, teacher, station hand, cook and voluntary worker on the million-acre cattle station she shares with her husband and their three children. You can contact her at nedscreekstn@bigpond.com. BILL HIBBERT is an experienced columnist and journalist currently contributing to a monthly local sports journal in Roanoke, VA. Previously, he was a sports columnist and sports editor for three newspapers and a freelance writer for two national baseball magazines. He is also knowledgeable and passionate about wine and has written extensively about Virginia and other Mid-Atlantic wines, wineries and wine events. He and his wife, Meg, are co-authors of four Virginia wine and garlic cookbooks. The third component of Bill's writing involves local government, where he draws on 20 years of experience as a director of regional planning commissions. He graduated from the University of Georgia and lives in Salem, VA. Award-winning community newspaper writer and photographer MEG HIBBERT lives and writes on a small mountain in Southwest Virginia, entertaining and informing more than 5,000 readers each week on subjects ranging from watching a man die in Virginia's death chamber to teen-age glider pilots who soar the wild blue yonder over Craig County. She recently traveled to Romania to find her father's roots in Transylvania. Meg's photographs have been featured in regional business magazines and sports publications, on the AP wire and mainstreetnewspapers.com, the website for the community newspapers of which she is news editor. She and her husband Bill are authors of four wine and garlic cookbooks and are cheerleaders for the Virginia Wine and Garlic Festival, the largest garlic festival east of Gilroy, Calif. Together, they have a stinking good time. CHRISTINE LOUISE HOHLBAUM, official SAHM expert for ClubMom, award-winning American author of Diary of a Mother: Parenting Stories and Other Stuff (2003), SAHM I Am: Tales of a Stay-at-Home Mom in Europe (2005) and The Author’s Companion: A Self-Guided Course on Book Promotion (CD-Rom, 2005) has been published in hundreds of publications. She has a BA from Smith College in Political Science and German Literature. From the University of Constance, Germany, she obtained her combined master's degree in International Relations, German and English Literature. She has appeared on numerous programs including NPR’s The Parent’s Journal with Bobbi Conner, Defining Women, ApPARENTly, Star-Style, WorldTalkRadio, WAHM Talk Radio, and the Mom Radio Network. She has appeared in Boston Globe Magazine, Pregnancy magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies Home Journal, Parents and Woman’s Day. She also acts as PR consultant for book authors and often engages in motivational speaking. When she isn't writing, leading seminars, or wiping up messes, she prefers to frolic in the Bavarian countryside with her husband and two children. She invites readers to visit her Web site at www.DiaryofaMother.com for more of her writing. DOUG HOLDER is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press and arts/editor of The Somerville News (Somerville, Mass.) His poetry and prose have appeared in: The Café Review, The Small Press Review, The Boston Globe Magazine, Rattle, Main St. Rag, Free Verse, Home Planet News, America's Favorite Poems ( Robert Pinsky,ed.) and many more. He is also the Boston Editor for Poesy Magazine http://www.poesy.org, and was included in Inside the Outside: An Anthology of American Avant-Garde Poets" (Presa Press) His recorded interviews with contemporary poets are archived at the Harvard and Buffalo University libraries, as well as Poet's House in NYC. He holds an M.A. in Literature from Harvard University. ELAINE HOPKINS was a reporter with the Journal Star in Peoria, IL for three decades, where she won awards for investigative reporting. She recently retired but continues to be the publisher of Downstate Story, an annual literary magazine (www.wiu.edu/users/mfgeh/dss) and the blog PeoriaStory.com at http://peoriastory.typepad.com. STEVE HORRELL is a reporter for the Edwardsville Intelligencer in Edwardsville, IL, covering southern Illinois into St. Louis. He is also a veteran freelancer who has written about such diverse subjects as politics, law, the environment and catfish noodling in Missouri. CLYDE HUGHES has been a professional journalist for the past 23 years, covering everything from hard news to features to sports. His versatility as a writer gives him a wide perspective on issues and current events. He has worked for daily newspapers (most recently the Toledo Blade) and contributed freelance stories for other publications and web sites around the country. He has won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Ohio Associated Press and the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. Clyde currently works in public relations for Purdue University. CLARE HUMPHREY is a 2006 graduate from Roanoke (VA) College with a degree in English. She began her journalism career as a general assignment reporter with the Salem (VA) Times-Register. VALARIE NICHELLE JACKSON is a native of inner-city Richmond, VA, the daughter of a deputy sheriff and a licensed practical nurse. Despite maternal aspirations of a more lucrative career path, she wanted to become a journalist as early as fifth grade. At James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., she studied communications and political science and worked on the campus radio station. After graduating, she became a staff reporter for the News & Advance in Lynchburg, VA, where she covered education, then wrote features and an entertainment column. She later covered school violence, health care politics and managed care for a series of Silver Spring, MD-based newsletters and now is part of a three-person team editing real-time news in the Washington office of Platts, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies. Her interests include progressive politics, music and history. She lives in Takoma Park, MD, with her cat, Hunter (named after Hunter S. Thompson). Expatriate New Yorker JANIS JAQUITH is a columnist for The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her radio commentaries are heard regularly on National Public Radio station WVTF in Roanoke, Virginia, and sporadically on Public Radio International's "Marketplace." BILL KELVIN is a freelance journalist who currently writes for Murder Dog; a Bay Area hip hop magazine, the Fun and Travel Guide, an advertising supplement for several Northern California daily newspapers; and The Buzz, an entertainment supplement for the Chico Enterprise-Record. He spent a year with the Chico Enterprise-Record, writing for the Buzz and the lifestyle section and serving as the weekend reporter. He earned a bachelor's degree in Speech Communication from Humboldt State University (Arcata, Calif.), with minors in Public Relations and Leadership Studies, and is now finishing his master's degree in Communication Studies. Other publications to which he's contributed include Indian Country Today, Wild Humboldt, Osprey, and Journalum. BILL KLEIN has been around. A native of Wisconsin, he now lives in Virginia but has also lived in Colorado and Hawaii. In his work as a civilian employee with the U.S. Navy, he travels the globe. He has published extensively on-line, and most recently released his first novel, Minnesconsin. His interest lies primarily in humorous and satirical fiction, non-fiction and political/social commentary. His work can be found at his website, www.BillKleinOnline.com. PAMELA MATLACK KLEIN writes “Living Along the Appomattox,” a weekly column about life in a small, rural Virginia town. She also creates website copy and articles on any topic under the sun. Her work has been featured on www.irascibleprofessor.com and can be found in the Society section of the online version of the Appomattox Times-Virginian (http://www.wpcva.com/appomattox/). DARRELL LAURANT knows about the needs of freelance writers and editors, because he's been both. Currently the local columnist and writing coach for the News & Advance in Lynchburg, VA., he has paralleled his 30 years in journalism with a simultaneous career as a freelance magazine writer. His credits include more than 30 publications, and he has written on subjects ranging from a woman said to be visited by the Virgin Mary to a bar catering to Pittsburgh Steeler fans; from a profile of a paralyzed survivor of the 1970 Kent State shootings to trends in outlet mall shopping. During the mid-1970s, Darrell was also co-founder and editor of South Carolina Sport, a monthly magazine based in Charleston, S.C. He has taught journalism and creative writing at Sweet Briar College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Lynchburg College and he continues to be a student of his craft, attending the National Writers' Conference in Atlanta, the Poynter Institute seminar in Wilmington, Del., and the Wesleyan Writers' Workshop in Middletown, CT. He has won more than two dozen awards from the Virginia Press Association -- including best column, best sports feature, best business story and best series of stories – and has published two books, Even Here and A City Unto Itself . Darrell grew up in Syracuse, N.Y. and graduated from Belmont Abbey College in Charlotte, N.C., with a degree in history. He and his wife Gail (an artist) have been married for 35 years and have two children. SHARON LINDENBURGER is an author, journalist, editor, and scriptwriter. She co-authored the book RX For Hospitals with Philip Hassen, as well as a second book with The Mississauga Hospital (now The Trillium Health Centre), entitled Re-Inventing Hospitals, on the subject of health care reform, also published by Stoddart in the fall of 1997. In 1999, her third book, The Canadian Consumer's Guide to Health Care, was released nationally by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Inc. and received considerable media attention across Canada. In 2001, she collaborated with David Patchell-Evans, president of GoodLife Fitness Clubs, on a book on the role of fitness, health, and quality of life. Entitled Living the Good Life: Your Guide to Health and Success this book was re-released in its second printing and has over 300,000 copies currently in circulation. She recently collaborated again with Patchell-Evans to produce a new completely revised version of his book, entitled No Sweat for the American market. She was the writer and co-author who worked with former Special Forces officer Jim Pritchard on The Warrior Mind, released by Amacom Inc. Publishers of New York City in January 2006. She is currently working with motivational speaker Robert Parker on a book called The Pit Crew Challenge for distribution throughout North America. She is also planning to write a transformational book tentatively titled Words Unspoken, in 2007.In addition to her books, Sharon is the author of hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, including The London Free Press, The Medical Post, the Globe and Mail, London CityLife Magazine, Canadian Business, Business Monday, and numerous others. For several years she was the head writer of PROBE, the newsletter of the world-renowned Lawson Research Institute. She has also been a medical writer, on a freelance basis, with The Medicine Group in Philadelphia USA, and with ADIS International, also located in Pennsylvania. Projects with these companies involve newsletters, monographs, and articles in the area of stroke, breast cancer, epilepsy, aging, heart disease, and quality of life issues in terms of compliance with drug regimens. She has also done considerable writing about holistic medicine and the mind/body connection. JEAN LOCKWOOD lives in the beautiful Mohawk Valley of Central NY with her husband, Dan, and their seven kids. She writes poetry, short stories and essays on parenting and marriage. Jean is currently enrolled at Herkimer County Community College, where she is majoring in Journalism. When she is not homeschooling her kids, or writing, Jean enjoys scrapbooking, and spending time doing family activities. In her 30-year career as a counselor and educator, CATHA LOOMIS authored a number of articles, workbooks and educational materials. Her professional background includes outplacement and career relocation consulting in private industry, teaching psychology and career planning at the college level, and career and personal counseling. She retired in 2003 to pursue a freelance writing career. Catha is an award-winning essayist whose work has appeared in local, regional and national publications. She lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. PAMELA LOWE was born and raised in the south when it was not so cool to be southern. Since then, she to Great Britain. To date, Pamela has been a wife (twice), a single mom, a switch board operator, a telephonist for a bowling alley, a sewing machine operator, an upstairs maid in a Scottish castle, a bonafied hippie drop out in London, a model, sales clerk, window decorator, pottery cleaner, designer for Bacova Guild, an offset stripper at a printing company, a freelance artist, photographer’s assistant, and YMCA program director. She holds an associate’s degree in Advertising Design and several certifications in fitness. Through it all her most steadfast inclination has been to write. Pam now resides with animals (both wild and domestic) on 54 serene acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains where she has been on a spiritual journey with trees and completed her first book, Walking With Trees in 2005 and is currently working on her second, Deeper Into The Woods. BEVERLY CAROL LUCEY has published short fiction in Portland Maine Magazine, Flint River Review, Moxie, Quality Women's Fiction, (UK) and Wild Strawberries. Four stories are anthologized in We Teach Them All. (Stenhouse). Her extensive fiction presence online include the ezines: “Zoetrope All Story Extra,” “Vestal Review,” CollectedStories.com , “Flashquake,” “Smokelong Quarterly,” and LitPot.com. Nominated for two Pushcart Prizes in fiction. Lucey is also a freelance non-fiction writer. She has essays in Are We Teaching Yet?(Heinneman) A Cup of Comfort for Teachers, and Rocking Chair Reader, among other anthologies. Her articles have appeared in Henry Magazine (GA) Sassee Magazine (NC) , Dog and Kennel, and has been a guest columnist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution OpEd section. Essays on education appear at IrascibleProfessor.com and CommonTies.com. The author recently moved from Maumelle, AR., where she taught writing and communication at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, AR, to Massachusetts.
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