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June Willson-Read,
Ph.D. is a former President
of the Writers' Group of the Triad, and is co-facilitator of
two WGOT Nonfiction groups and co-facilitator of the Children's
Writers genre. A transplanted native of Wyoming, she has over
20 years of Carolina living under her belt. She wrote and published
a nonfiction book, Relationships: One Step on the Path.
The design and layout is by WGOT member, Peggy Rooks. She has
a short essay about growing up on Running Water Ranch published
in the Houghton-Mifflin anthology, Leaning Into the Wind.
She is currently working on a biography set in Wyoming. She
majored in journalism at the University of Wyoming and wrote
for newspapers in Laramie, WY and St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
Her children's stories have appeared in several publications,
including two WGOT anthologies, No Grown-Ups Allowed
and Candle in the Attic, and in Artisans of the Triad
magazine. She has a short story in the adult anthology, Wordworks
(2003). Dr. Read teaches adult classes on Writing and Publishing
Children's Stories and Creative Nonfiction at Guilford Technical
Community College. She has presented programs for participants
in the Young Writer's Conference at UNC-G for the past five
years. She has been writing the WGOT newsletter for the past
nine years, assisted by Peggy Rooks and Sharon Logan. |
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Jean Rodenbough is a retired Presbyterian minister and writes poems, fiction, and non-fiction. Her books are published with www.lulu.com, and listed on Amazon's Author Page: Gather with the Saints; Signs of Hope: Messages for the Grieving; Field Water; and Preacher's Dozen. Her new projects are a collection of poems and a book on children of WWII. She also is a chip-carver and recorder player. She and her husband Charles and their beagle-Jack Russell live here in Greensboro. Their four children and their families are also in the area. |
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Chris
Roerden, M.A., spent 44 years in publishing. Authors she's
edited are published by Berkley Prime Crime, St. Martin's Press,
Midnight Ink, Viking, Walker, Intrigue, Rodale, and many others.
A University of Maine summa cum laude graduate, Chris taught
writing there three years. While president of a trade association
of 250 commercial and university presses, she initiated courses
in book publishing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
which she taught eight years. Her 10th book, Don't Murder
Your Mystery, won the Agatha Award in 2007 and finaled
in three other national awards. Its 2008 all-genre edition is Don't Sabotage Your Submission. |
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Bill Rowan
has been a member of two WGOT critique groups. He has three
books in print and two on the way. His first, "On the Spring
Tide" (1998), described the lifelong impact of post-traumatic
stress disorder acquired by a teenage girl while imprisoned
for thirty-seven months by the Japanese military in Manila during
WWII. This one is available in a second edition entitled "Living
With Post-traumatic Stress: A Special Kind of Courage." On a
lighter note, "Tales from Towhee Inn" (1999) weaves fifteen
tongue-in-cheek short stories into the fabric of a novella.
"Incident at Roan High Bluff" (2000) is mystery and suspense
for the faint-of-heart. Set on the NC/TN border, it is "completely
devoid of violence, sex, and bad language, but makes a nice
gift for special people." |
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Susan Self
is new to the Writers' Group of the Triad, and is a member
of the nonfiction genre that meets at Sharon Logan's house.
With undergraduate degrees in music and English from UNC-G
and a law degree from Wake Forest University, she has had
careers both as a lawyer working with federal criminal appeals
and as a classical mezzo-soprano singing with the Winston
Salem Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. She has also held
a debut recital at Carnegie Hall. Her poems have been published
in a college literary magazine on which she also served as
an editor. Her short story, "O Magnum Mysterium," is the very
first entry in the adult anthology, Wordworks (2003),
so literary North Carolina may expect a lot more from this
new member. |
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Costa Rican-American Mark Smith-Soto is professor of Romance Languages and Director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he edits International Poetry Review. Winner of a 2005 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing, he’s had poetry in Antioch Review, Callaloo, Chattahoochee Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, Quarterly West, The Sun, and many other literary magazines. His chapbook Green Mango Collage won the North Carolina Writers’ Network Year 2000 Persephone Competition. Another chapbook, Shafts, won the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s 2001 Randall Jarrell-Harperprints Poetry Competition. His first full-length book of poetry, Our Lives Are Rivers [University Press of Florida, 2003], was runner-up for the Best N.C. Poetry Book of the Year award offered by the Poetry Council of North Carolina. His 2006 collection, Any Second Now [Main Street Rag Publishing Company], was selected as a Notable Finalist for the 2007 Brockman-Campbell Award of the NC Poetry Society. In 2008, his Waiting Room was published by Red Mountain Review as the winner of their annual chapbook competition. An avid amateur playwright, he’s had fourteen ten-minute plays locally produced, and one, Trio, inspired by a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, was published by Dramatic Publishing of Chicago in 2005. |
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Julie Stanley,
a member of the WGOT Novel genre, was born in Florida and received
a Bachelor's degree in English from Florida State University
and a Master's degree in English from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. She now lives in Oak Ridge, NC. A former
technical editor, she is working on her novel, Gonzo
and staying home with her two-year-old daughter, Anna. Her short
story "Potlatch" won 3d prize in the O. Henry Festival short
fiction competition and is published in O. Henry Festival
Stories 2003. |
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Janice Sullivan
is currently President of the Poetry Council of North Carolina
and member-at-large on the board of the NC Poetry Society. She
is active in the WGOT poetry groups and in regional poetry organizations.
She has been published in several journals and collections,
including Coastal Carolina Poetry, Bay Leaves (for second
place in James Larkin Pearson Contest), International Icarus,
Flying Machines (2000), Pembroke, and Turn in
Time.... She received first place for the Poetry of Love
Award in 2002, and appears in NC Poetry Society Award Winning
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NOTE: How does one get to be included on this list? Published
Writers Group of the Triad writers with national magazine credits
or writers with stories published in anthologies are included. Being
a facilitator of one of our genres or a WGOT board member also gets
you in. As you can see, we have had difficulties with some of the
photos, and we appreciate your patience and understanding. We are
still trying to get this sort of thing worked out. If you are listed
here without a photo or wish to have a different photo used than
the one on the website, please email a digital copy (.jpg files
preferred) to Webmaster Karen McCullough at karen@kmccullough.com.
Please put "WGOT" in the subject line. If you are not
listed here but want to be, please forward a short bio (not to exceed
100 words) and photo to the same address.
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