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Our Authors/WritersA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Connie Ralston is a former Assistant Editor of Our State magazine, and is the facilitator of the two WGOT Poetry subgroups. A Greensboro resident, she has had poems appear in GW, Chiron Review, and Poet magazine. She took first place in the Fifth Iva Mary Williams Inspirational Poetry competition and won a special merit award in the Fourth. She also won third prize in the Chiron Review poetry contest, and third prize in the 1990 North American Open Poetry Competition, and had one of her articles published in The Furman Magazine. In the anthology "A Turn in Time," she describes a cardinal by the way it "skitters crimson over optical nerve," and "a prayer in vermilion...as if the blood of Christ had taken consecrated and chromatic wing." |
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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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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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Dr. Ron Rubenzer, a member of the WGOT Nonfiction group, is a licensed psychological associate, an advice columnist, and has written for Duke’s Talent Identification Program. He does individual testing and career assessment and coaches in performance enhancement on group tests and career achievement. “Your success is my goal” is his mission statement. His internationally sold book, How the Best Handle Stress, (Barnes and Noble and at warrenpublish@aol.com ) is based on his presentation at Switzerland’s World Congress on Stress, college teaching and U.S. TV appearances. He is in private practice in Greensboro North Carolina (Triad Counseling 336-272-8090) where he also does individual testing/coaching. For more information, please visit www.drrubenzer.com His new audio-CD “Your Relaxation Vacation” has been used in hospitals, businesses, schools and homes nationwide. He does consulting work for Barnes and Noble in test taking and stress management. |
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Edmund R. Schubert loves stories. Always has; always will. He is President of the Writers' Group of the Triad. In the past three years, in addition to assorted essays, articles, and book reviews, Edmund has had over twenty short stories published, three stories taken as reprints, and been published internationally. His story, "Unfathomed," won first prize in the Eighth Annual Lynx Eye Captivating Beginnings Contest, and his story "Reality Check On Register Two" was included in StorySouth’s list of Notable Stories of 2004. Additionally, he is Executive Editor of the quarterly North Carolina Career Network Magazine. Despite all this, Edmund still maintains that his greatest moment occurred when the underground newspaper he published in college made him the subject of a professor's lecture -- in abnormal psychology. Doug Cohen (assistant editor at Realms of Fantasy) interviewed Ed about his role as editor of InterGalactic Medicine Show. Read about it here. (Go to July 15!) |
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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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R.C. Smith, a member of WGOT's Novel Group I genre, was born in Manhattan, raised in Queens in New York City, and lived later in Garden City, L.I. He is a former reporter, columnist, and editor for newspapers in North Carolina and Virginia; author of numerous magazine articles and three books; and a former lecturer in the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. While employed by the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk,-Portsmouth from 1952-64, he received a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard for the 1960-61 academic year. He has written often for magazines on the subject of civil rights, with articles published in Commentary magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere. He also wrote articles on jazz and folk music for such publications as Melody Maker of London and The Jazz Review. |
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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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Robert O. Stephens, a native of Texas, is a long-time resident of North Carolina. He is author of That Time of Year, which consists of two detective-romance novellas set in Cromwell, NC. "Next Year in Cromwell" tells the story of Will Ford, a young lawyer, and Zeke Morgan, the man he's hired to defend for murder in the period just before World War I. "Such Were for the Saints," set during the roaring twenteis, is about Roy Vance, Cromwell's undertaker and his girlfriend, Mollie Bruce. Stephens is also author of The Family Saga in the South, and other writings on Southern topics. With degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, he has taught English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Stephens lives in Greensboro with his wife, Virginia, and is the father of three children and grandfather of three lively grandchildren. |
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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 Poems. |
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
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