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Dee Lussier Angermeier is the facilitator of the WGOT Mystery Group II genre which meets at Kitty Beasley Edwards home. A native of New England, she now resides in Summerfield with her husband and son. Her writing credits include stories and poems published in Blue Moon magazine. She has recently finished her first novel, Debt of Gratitude, for which she is seeking representation.

Catherine Ashley-Nelson is a member of the Poetry and Nonfiction subgroups. She edited WGOT's newest anthology, Wordworks and coordinated the Poetry entries for the 2004 Greensboro Awards. Now retired from the English Department of NC A. & T. State University, she has led an active retirement. She edited the 1995 O. Henry Festival Stories.. Her poetry has been published in Blue Pitcher and Edge of Our World. She has served as past president of WGOT and was co-editor of two WGOT publications: The Voice Within and Introspectrum.. She has a provocative essay, 'Old Dreams for a New Millennium' in the anthology "A Turn in Time," a story that offers hope as she reflects on a prior trip to Russia. In writing, she believes in writing with all of the senses, and in "going there" for research. Ashley-Nelson writes knowledgeably about her experiences in Russia and Africa. She is now completing the final draft of a non-fiction manuscript about two years in the Peace Corps.

Polly Atkins hails from the mountains of North Carolina and often flavors her stories with mountain dialect and folklore. A member of the Children's Lit genre at WGOT, she has contributed to two children's anthologies, "No Grownups Allowed" and "Candle in the Attic." There is mountain magic in the way she tells her stories, so she recently cut a CD titled "The Likes of Rufus Lee" and presented it to a local station in hopes of having it aired on public radio. In the near future, she plans to finish a collection of "hill women" short stories which might become her first novel. Along with writing psychological thrillers and children's short stories, Polly loves observing people to get ideas for her writing.

Demetra 'Tita' Bakas is the co-facilitator of the NSAI Songwriters (Greensboro Chapter), and is a member of the WGOT Children's Writers subgroup. She was also a former President of WGOT. Tita loves the power of words and the ability of the imagination to create new worlds to view. As a storyteller (Miss Tita), singer, songwriter and author, she invites children to experience fun, adventure, the natural world, and other cultures with her books, stories and songs. She has contributed to two children's anthologies published by Writers' Group of the Triad: "No Grown-Ups Allowed," and "Candle in the Attic." She has also written ""Black Eyed Susan", published by Creation of Celebration. The book, a story about an abused child, offers hope for children and families. Tita has also recorded an audiotape, "Peace for my Family," to accompany the book. Her newest CD is "Animal Totem Songs," published late in 2003.

Judith Behar has been a practicing lawyer, chiefly in the area of family law since 1975. She became a member of the Writers' Group of the Triad and the mystery writers' subgroup about a year and a half ago, but she has written poetry and fiction sporadically for years. Her poetry has been published in North Carolina publications and she has placed in two contests, second place in the Crucible poetry contest and honorable mention in the Robert Ruark fiction competition. She is a contributor to and an editor of the forthcoming anthology, Lines from a Near Country, a publication of the New Garden Friends Meeting, and her poetry also appears in the anthology, Wordworks.

Jenan Jones Benson participates in the WGOT non-fiction writers' groups. She writes agricultural and horticultural features for several publications including Country Folks Grower, Mid-Atlantic Farm Chronicle, The Fruit Growers' News and The Vegetable Growers' News. She's contributed travel stories to Our State: Down Home In North Carolina and the [Greensboro, NC] News & Record. She reviews audio books and writes features for AudioFile magazine. Her work also has appeared in Farmer's Digest, Hard Hat News and Georgia Backroads. Jenan also provides editing services, technical writing, grant writing and web copywriting. Visit her web site: www.awriterforent.com

Diane Lambright Berry has been a Wake County Writer in Residence in the Raleigh area for twenty years, teaching creative writing throughout the school system. She is a past board member of the NC Writers' Network and a former steering committee member of the Carolina Crime Writers' Association. She attended many conferences and workshops on writing, including: The Harriette Austin Writers' Conference in Athens, Georgia; the Cape Fear Crime Festival in Wilmington, NC (where she served as a panel member in 2002 and 2003; the Wildacres Writers' Workshop in the NC mountains; various NC Writers' Network State Conferences; and Malice Domestic in Washington, D.C. She is currently a member of the Carolina Crime Writers' Association in Raleigh, NC and the Writers' Group of the Triad in Greensboro, NC. She has two children's stories published in the anthology Candle in the Attic, one short story published in the anthology Deadly Plots, a second short story published in the anthology Wordworks, three short stories and three poems in the anthology Short and Sinister. She is the author of the middle-grade mystery novel Port City Pirates, and is currently writing an adult murder mystery novel.

Linne Black is workshop coordinator of the NSAI songwriters chapter in Winston-Salem. A North Carolina songwriter and performer, Linne co-wrote six songs on Susan Lea's recent CD "Just a Little Bit of Love," and two songs recorded by Melanie Ayers on her "Live at the Crazy Horse" album. Her songs have been recorded by Mickey Gilley, Barbi Benton, Tommy Overstreet, Brenda Pepper, Mike Wells and Billy Crash Craddock. Signed to RCA as an artist/writer, she has been produced by Chet Atkins. Currently, she has songs published by Maypop, Vintage, Millhouse Music (Polygram), Equinox and Abear Publishing in Nashville; by Embassy Music in New York; and by Lyn Ashley and Aliso Conejo Music in California. Her "other life" is Registered Nurse (Neonatal ICU).

Lynne Martin Bowman has been a member of WGOT, with a few lapses, for the past ten years. She has advanced degrees in creative writing and English, and a long list of publications to her credit. Her poetry has appeared in Tar River Poetry, Petroglyph, Mississippi Review, International Poetry Review, Sow's Ear Poetry Review and other literary journals. She has also been honored in several competitions. She was the 1998 Sonora Review Poetry Prize winner, twice a finalist for the Emily Dickinson Award, and won honorable mention in the Icarus and Randall Jarrell poetry competitions.

Raised in the small town of Guilford College, Ginger Bush now lives in a rural area outside of Greensboro, North Carolina. She founded the Rockingham County Watershed Preservation Committee and served as Vice President and member of the board of the North Carolina Watershed Coalition. She worked as a volunteer for over a decade in this field to benefit her state, region and nation. Bush has written for most of her life, and has spent the last several years developing the craft of poetry.

Pamela Cable, Public Relations Director of WGOT, is a member of the WGOT Novel Writers II Group and Short Story group, is a novelist and freelance writer. In August of 2003, she quit a 25-year career in administrative medicine to fulfill her lifelong dream of writing full-time. She is also a member of the North Carolina Writer's Association, the International Women's Writing Guild and the regional contact for the IWWG, as well as a member of the National Association of Women Writers. Recently, she won Honorable Mention for her short story No Time for Laura in the Burlington Writer's Group Fiction Contest, April 2004. She also writes articles for The Chatter, a local newspaper. Pamela lives in Archdale, with her husband Michael. She attends writing conferences and classes all over the United States. She is currently writing a novel of literary fiction. Visit her website: www.pamelacable.com

Lynn Chandler-Willis is facilitator of WGOT's Novel Writers I subgroup. She has written "Unholy Covenant", a true-crime novel about a murder in Pleasant Garden, NC. Shock waves rocked the small town when Patricia Blakely's charred body was discovered inside the burned-out home. Then the truth came out: Patricia had died from a bullet wound to the head. Lynn develops the story with all the suspense of the actual events as they occurred, taking the reader from the crime scene to the courtroom. The book is published by Addicus. ISBN 1886039410. List price: $17.95, but if you order it through Amazon.com and write a brief review after reading it, you can get 20 percent off. The book has been re-issued under the title "The Preacher's Son" and is available on Amazon and at all major bookstores, priced at $6.99.

Rebecca Chaney lives in Escandido, CA and was a former Secretary of WGOT and a facilitator of the Children's Literature genre. She began her writing career as a copywriter at a radio station in Virginia. She wrote a daily syndicated 15-minute radio show for women for World Broadcasting System in Los Angeles and was a copywriter for a national advertising agency where she wrote "The Pancake Man," a daily children's TV show for IHOP. When her husband began his own film production company, she co-wrote "City by Design" for Century City, and the feature film "Vanishing Wilderness." She also wrote "Twenty Years of Exile: The Story of the Dalai Lama," narrated by William Conrad. Becky has contributed to two WGOT children's anthologies: "No Grown-ups Allowed" and "Candle in the Attic." She was editor of Freedom's Heroes, a Guilford County veterans' documentary of war experiences in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, a book inspired by Liz Needham, Retired Senior Volunteer Program Director in Greensboro. Veterans photos and illustrations were coordinated by Bob Webb and the computer layout was designed by Gail Shatto Fleagle.

Laine Cunningham is a former facilitator of the WGOT Novel II group. While she has personally had hundreds of articles, short stories and poems published, in the 1990's she set up an editorial service to assist other authors and small presses. She has taught fiction and nonfiction to adults through a variety of organizations including the Loft, the nation's largest independent literary center. She has twice been the featured writing expert on public television's Around Town and once on Opinions talk show out of Chicago. The Jerome Foundation awarded her a fellowship and in the spring of 1999 she attended a month-long residency at the New York Mills Cultural Center. In 2001 she received a second Jerome fellowship, and the Cornucopia Arts Center accepted her for a November residency. She has been the guest literary artist on Route 69, a live variety show. For the past five years she has visited public and private schools across the nation to present day- to week-long writing programs for students in grades K-12.

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. 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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