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P.T. Deutermann,
began writing fiction in 1991, and has since published nine
novels of suspense. His books are published in hardback as well
as mass-market editions by St. Martins Press, and are available
in all major bookstores. In 1988, he worked at the Pentagon
as the head of the Strategy Planning branch on the navy staff.
He was then assigned as the division director of the arms control
negotiations office concerned with chemical, biological, and
radiation weapons on the joint staff. He was appointed as a
technical delegate to the United Nations, and participated in
arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union in Geneva. He
retired from active duty after 26 years in 1989 with nineteen
military awards and decorations. Three of his novels have been
optioned by various film studios for feature film development.
His books are also sold for foreign translation rights in fourteen
countries. Mr. Deutermann's titles include Scorpion in the
Sea, The Edge of Honor, Official Privilege, Sweepers, Zero Option,
Train Man, Hunting Season, and The Firefly. His
next novel, The Cat Dancers, set in North Carolina, is
slated for publication in September of 2005. He and his wife,
Susan, have recently moved to the Piedmont area from Georgia.
They live in the southeastern part of Rockingham County on their
family farm. For more information visit his web site: www.ptdeutermann.com
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Nickie Doyal,
Vice President of WGOT, is the facilitator of the Mixed Bag
Group, the first WGOT writers group to meet during the day.
After turning 50 she went to college for 5 years and gained
a degree in English. During the 5th year she was hired as a
research assistant to find material for a book on women in North
Carolina who ran boarding houses. The book is now finished and
seeking a home. Like other writers, she is in the midst of the
writer's cycle of forming, polishing and sending out short stories.
"I love the short short story format," she says, "and am drawn
by its incessant demand for perfection. It is maddening, frustrating
but so exhilarating when that one sentence appears on the paper
and you know -- it's brilliant." |
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Kitty Beasley
Edwards, a former Virginia
teacher of English and journalism, has written extensively for
newspapers. She is a member of WGOT Mystery Group II. Those
who know Kitty will think that the photo on the left was not
taken recently and they would be right. Kitty held offices,
including the presidency, in the old Greensboro Writers' Club,
a forerunner of WGOT. Her stories have been published in O
Henry Festival Stories, 1995 and in A Turn in Time....
Her poetry has appeared in such journals as Good Housekeeping
and in anthologies published by the North Carolina Poetry Society
and the Greensboro Group, including Women of the Piedmont
Triad and Edge of Our World. She has had a short
story published in the WGOT anthology, Wordworks (2003)
and has held office in the NC Poetry Society and won awards
from Burlington Writers' Club. |
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As the current facilitator for Poetry Writers, Diana Engel celebrates and encourages the diverse voices in this critique group. In addition to keeping these poets abreast of readings, workshops, and conferences available, she is beginning to add occasional information sharing/workshop sessions to the regular critique meeting agenda. The intent is to speak to practical concerns such as successful publication as well as writing development topics unique to poetry: voice, purposely metered poetry versus free verse, syntax and music, etc. Most recently, Diana served as the bibliographic instruction librarian in the Hege Library of Guilford College from 1998-2006. Her poetry has appeared in The Shagbark Review and the WGOT anthology, Wordworks. |
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Mary Ferryman,
who co-facilitates the WGOT nonfiction group, is a former Vice
President of the Writers' Group of the Triad. She has written
for her neighborhood newspaper and for assorted newsletters.
In 2002 she interviewed war veterans for the WGOT publication,
Freedom's Heroes, which she helped to edit. In 2003 she
contributed a short story to the adult anthology, Wordworks,
also published by Writer's Group of the Triad. She has her own
word processing business formatting manuscripts and also works
as an administrative assistant. |
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Gail
Fleagle, member of the Childrens
Writers subgroup, is the author of Play Ball, published
by Richard C. Owen Publishers, Inc. Her book has English and
Spanish versions. Gail and Mary Webb authored the story of Fred
Dickerson in the book, Silent Like a Lamb. She ghost
wrote several stories in the book, Freedom's Heroes.
Two of her short stories are included in the WGOT anthology,
Candle in the Attic. A biography about Gail is included in the
reference book for libraries, Something About the Author,
published by the Gale Group. Gail has authored two interview
columns, had features in News & Record and the national
publication, Science and Children. Her published writing
has included fillers for The Friend, and The Mailbox
Teacher. She reviewed children's books and was a member
of the teacher advisory board for Instructor. She has won three
writing contests. Gail is a performing storyteller. She is currently
working on two children's books about missionary doctors in
Guatemala and Mexico, and a two-part book about a Kosova immigrant.
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Golda Fried
is a member of the WGOT's Novel II group. Originally from Toronto,
Canada, she has been living in Greensboro for five years and
has been teaching Expository Writing at GTCC. Her collection
of short stories entitled "Darkness Then a Blown Kiss" examines
students in high school/college who love bumping into everything
found like a bathtub lying in the grass and who drink tons of
coffee while trying to be in relationships. Check this book
out on amazon.com. She is currently working on a coming of age
novel about a girl trying to lose her virginity entitled, "Nellcott
is my Darling". |
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Nancy
Gotter Gates is a long standing
member of the Writers' Group of the Triad, having served 13
years as its treasurer on the board of directors (1990-2003).
A Greensboro resident, she is the facilitator of WGOT's Mystery
Writer's group I. Twenty-six of her short stories and dozens
of poems and articles have been published in regional, national
and international publications. She is also an artist. Her short
stories and poetry have appeared in the prestigious 1985, 1987,
and 1995 O. Henry Festival Stories. She has also appeared
in Children's Digest, and North Carolina Literary
Review. Nancy has completed three novels and edited the
book, Creative Writing/Cooking, (1994) a collection of
recipes by well known state and national writers, published
by Down Home Press. She has also contributed to two WGOT children's
anthologies, No Grown-ups Allowed (1995) and Candle
in the Attic (2001), to the WGOT mystery anthology Deadly
Plots (2002) and to the WGOT adult anthology Wordworks
(2003). Her most recent novel, A Stroke of Misfortune,
has been sold to Silver Dagger Mysteries. |
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Marie
Gilbert, founding member
of the Greensboro Group and the North Carolina Writers' Network,
has given many years to the writing life of the region. A recipient
of the Sam Ragan Poet Laureate Fine Arts Award, she is the author
of six collections of poetry, including the recent Brookgreen
Oaks, published by Down Home Press. From Florence, South
Carolina, she graduated from Rollins College with a dual major
in psychology and theatre arts. She has conducted workshops
and held poetry readings that included the Spoleto Sun Down
Poetry series at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston. In 2001,
the North Carolina Poetry Society dedicated their Award Winning
Poems to her. Her poetry is included in the WGOT adult anthology,
Wordworks, published in 2003. |
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Helen
Goodman is a member of the
WGOT Mystery Critique group. Her novel, The Blue Goose, was
a finalist in St. Martin's Malice Domestic contest. It is now
being considered for publishing by Silver Dagger Press. She
has written an historical novel and two mysteries, and is currently
working on a third mystery. She is a retired nurse, now widowed,
has four children and five grandchildren. She has been writing
for about 20 years and has won several writing awards. She has
had articles published in Reminisce, Alive, and the Charlotte
Observer. Her writing and biography are included in Our
Words, Our Ways, a textbook published by Carolina Academic
Press. Helen is also a playwright, collaborating on the script
for an award-winning outdoor historical drama Ripple in the
River, produced for the past nine summers and performed
in the Helen Goodman Amphitheater, named in her honor.
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Marc Graham
is a member of the WGOT's Novel II Group and the North Carolina
Writers' Network. Stolen by gypsies as an infant, he was raised
on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line, but returned to his
Southern roots as soon as he came of age. A Mechanical Engineer
by day (BSME, Rice University), Marc indulges the right side
of his brain through music, acting and writing. He has completed
his first novel, Patchwork, a historical fiction for
which he is currently seeking representation. While the Novel
Group picks that apart, he has begun work on his second novel.
Marc lives in Greensboro with his wife, Laura, and two furry
'kids,' Bailey (Golden Retriever) and Killian (Greater Swiss
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Wendy
Greene holds a Ph.D. in English
from Indiana University and currently teaches English at Guilford
Technical Community College. She has been a member of the Writers'
Group of the Triad for six years as a charter member of Mystery
Writers I. She has studied creative writing at Wildacres and
at Duke University. Her poems have appeared in the Piedmont
Literary Review and in The Windless Orchard. Her
short stories appear in All That Jazz and Deadly Plots.
She is also an editor and contributor to a new anthology of
poetry recently published by the New Garden Writers' Group,
and is currently working on two mystery novels about a medieval
historian. New poems will appear in a forthcoming collection,
Lines from a Near Country. Her love of sailing is often a theme
in her poetry and prose. "Stealing Sailing" won Honorable Mention
in the Elizabeth Daniels Squire Mystery Contest, 2002.
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Steve Guidos
lives in Nashville. An attorney, accountant, consultant and
computer programmer by education and experience, he is a songwriter
by heart. Steve was the facilitator and workshop coordinator
of our NSAI songwriters chapter in Greensboro before getting
a job transfer to "Music City." While he was forced to take
guitar lessons at an early age and hated the experience, in
his mid-30s he had a change in heart. Writing MIDI software
and working with MIDI hardware re-awakened his musical instincts,
so he started his own MIDI and digital audio home recording
studio where he could make radio commercials, television soundtracks
and demos for local songwriters. He views himself as a songwriter/producer
rather than as an artist. |
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Gail
Gurley holds a B.A. in Psychology
and an M.Ed. in Education from UNC Greensboro. A North Carolina
native born and raised in Salisbury, she now resides in Archdale,
NC with her husband of 34 years, Ed. Gail is the author of two
works of fiction, Tales from the Sunroom, and The
Birdhouse, a novel published by Alliance Books. She is a
staff writer for the Chatter newspaper, a weekly publication
with circulation of 20,000. In 1998 Gail won a national short
story contest for her story "The Message" published in Storied
Crossings from Scribes Hill Publishing Company. She also
had several articles published in academic publications while
in college. The Gurleys have one daughter and three grandchildren
living in the Houston, Texas area. They also have a dog, Molly,
and a cat, Rusti. She is now working on a nonfiction book about
the lives and careers of early stockcar drivers before the advent
of NASCAR. She is active in her church and community and serves
on the Community Appearance Commission and the Strategic Planning
Committee in Archdale.
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NOTE: How does one get to be included on this list? Being
an author or novelist and a member of Writers' Group of the Triad
will get you in for sure. Published WGOT writers with national magazine
credits or writers with stories published in anthologies also helps.
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