Current Occupation: Bookseller Former Occupation: Technical Writer/Editor, English teacher Contact Information: Helen Sinoradzki moved to Portland, OR, 15 years ago and plans to stay for the rest of her life. She has been a bookseller at various independent bookstores for …
Current Occupation: Business Analyst in the health care industry Former Occupation: Environmental Engineer, Laboratory Technician, Grocery Bagger, Camp Counselor, Postal Warehouse Package Sorter, Fast Food cashier, babysitter Contact Information: By the time Karen Swartz was 18 years old she had …
Current Occupation: University Instructor / PhD Student Former Occupation: High School Teacher Contact Information: Alison Stine is the author of Wait, winner of the 2010 Brittingham Prize, and Ohio Violence, winner of the 2008 Vassar Miller Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and …
Current Occupation: Poet and playwright. Former Occupations: Reporter for newspapers and the Associated Press, business magazine editor, writing teacher, grant writer, and communication consultant. Contact Information: Maureen Ann Connolly’s poetry has appeared in MARGIE, Off the Coast, Words and Images, …
Current Occupation: Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Former Occupation: Free-lance writer Contact Information: Marc Swan lives in Portland, Maine, a working seaport with a thriving arts community. He has new work coming out in Slipstream, Common Ground, Pearl and Owen Wister Review, …
Former occupation: Thirty years in Human Resources. Current occupation: Fisherman poet Contact Information: Spent two years in the MA Writing Program, Univ of Pittsburgh, left when GI Bill money ran out and went to work. Took a thirty three year …
Current Occupation: writer and psychiatric nurse Former Occupation: writer and psychiatric nurse Contact Information: Evelyn Sharenov’s stories, essays and poetry have been published in the New York Times, Glimmer Train, Etude, Mediphors, Fugue, CrossConnect, NYQ, The Bear Deluxe and many …
Current Occupation: Creative Writing Coordinator and World Literature Coordinator at San Diego Mesa College Former Occupation: Commercial Salmon Troller and Charter-boat Captain of The Starfisher in Depoe Bay, Oregon Contact Information: Scott T. Starbuck communes with dolphin yoga masters off …
Current Occupation: Retired Prior Occupation: Physician (Internist) Contact Information: After retiring from the practice of Internal Medicine, Charles Merwarth and his wife spent six months of each of the next seven years cruising their thirty-foot sailboat along the Intercoastal Waterway and …
Current occupation: writer and editor Former occupation: publications director, speechwriter, and magazine editor Contact Information: Caroline Taylor’s short stories have appeared in Work Literary Magazine and other online and print magazines. She is the author of two mystery novels and one nonfiction …
Current Occupation: (nearly) full-time writer. Former Occupation: husband (Jack Hyer) and I ran a home-based boutique consulting firm specializing in executive searches and management interventions in non-profit organizations. When I became “hooked” on creative writing, our business concentration ebbed. Contact …