BIW Member Interview Janice Wiley-Dorn has won the Greater Augusta (GA) Arts Council’s Porter Fleming Competition twice and many other awards. Her short stories have appeared in literary periodicals, including The Rambler. She teaches creative writing online and leads two critique groups in Alabama. Moe: When did you know you wanted to be a writer?…
BIW Member Interview John Young lives and writes in Bellflower, California. He is an elementary school teacher who hopes to guide children in the direction of their dreams while also pursuing his own writing dreams. Moe: When did you know you wanted to be a writer? John Young: I read To Kill a Mockingbird as…
BIW Member Interview Christine Hammar is a mother of 4 grown up children and a happy Grandmother of one grand child. After suffering a severe writing lapse during the years her children were small, she is now catching up, writing and learning the craft. She currently works in a Finnish Transport company, writing in her…
BIW Member Interview Marie Sultana Robinson is a former creativity and business coach among many other professions including running an electrical contracting company, insurance agent, baker, and model. She never ever buys a purse, unless a notebook can fit in it. And she tends to buy skirts that have pockets for the same reasons. She…
BIW Member Interview Rita Lorraine Hubbard is a former teacher living in Tennessee. Rita’s first nonfiction trade book, African Americans of Chattanooga: A History of Unsung Heroes, debuted in December 2007. Currently, she writes full-time and produces a line of historical calendars called Shades of Greatness. Moe: When did you know you wanted to be…
BIW Member Interview Greta Browne, mother of three and grandmother of three, lives in Bethlehem, PA, with her husband and two cats. She is a therapist, a chaplain, a peace and justice activist, and a writer in a line of writing women. She lived in China and Brazil as a child and in Niger as…
BIW Member Interview Cristina A. Montes is from the Philippines. She works as a Court Attorney at her country’s Supreme Court and loves writing in her spare time. Moe: When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Cristina A. Montes: When I was in grade school, the system for joining after-school clubs was…
BIW Member Interview Montgomery Sword is a first-time NANOWRIMO winner for 2007. My current concentration is Standwood Station GA Chronicles, a milieu collection of poetry, novels, and short stories set in a tiny but essentially spooky Georgia railroad & farming community. She’s proud to be a part of the A-1 Writing Academy on WDC–almost two…