The Internet Writing Workshop is a free resource for writers, run by a group of volunteer administrators. These lists could not exist without their commitment and dedication.

Greg Gunther is the IWW's overall owner. He administers the Writing discussion list, and offers technical advice to members having email and formatting problems. He's a retired aerospace engineer living in Southern California with his psychologist wife, daughter, granddaughter, two good dogs, so-so cats, horses, miniature goats, a couple of shy sheep, and some chickens that lay more eggs than we can eat.

Patricia (Trish) Beard is the co-administrator of Poetry-W. She is a full-time mom, a sometimes poet, a collector and admirer of poetry, and a part-time student.

Diane Diekman is an administrator for both Nfiction and MarketChat. A "South Dakota farm girl," she has written or revised three books since joining Nfiction in 1999 while a Navy captain living in Japan. She self-published "Navy Greenshirt" and "A Farm in the Hidewood" in 2001, and the University of Illinois Press has published "Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story." After moving to Los Angeles, Diane became a mother at age fifty when she adopted a pair of sisters (ages 5 and 7). She retired in Washington DC in 2004, following a 32-year Navy career. She and her daughters live in Maryland.

Ruth Douillette  Ruth Douillette is administrator of the Practice-W list. She is a middle school teacher in Massachusetts who has encouraged and edited the works of young writers for over thirty-three years. With retirement on the horizon, she looks forward to developing her own writing skills.  For now she writes profiles and features for a local paper, and is active in school and political issues in her hometown. She is a regular guest on "Around the Table," a local cable TV talk show. Visit her blog: http://upstreamanddown.blogspot.com

Jody Ewing, a reserve administrator for the Writing list,  is an author, a freelance writer and also works as a cold case investigative journalist. With 400+ published features, she currently is juggling a novel, a political memoir and a true crime book. She lives in western Iowa with her longtime partner Dennis, son Rhett, dogs Cocoa, Bear and Hagan, and an African Grey parrot named Clyde who thinks he's a WWII pilot. Visit her website at www.jodyewing.com.

Margaret Hamill is the assistant administrator for YAWrite. A retired teacher, Marge is enchanted by mythical creatures of the forests, so writes children's stories about them. Her first two children's novels, Spilled Fairy Dust and Light on the Widow's Walk were published in Fall, 2000. She also writes take-your-breath-away essays about the beauty of her northwestern Michigan home.

Mel Jacob, is the administrator for Lovestory-L, the romance writing list. A freelance writer and consultant, she wrote Domestic Technology, Strategic Planning: a How-to-do-it Manual, and numerous articles on information services, management, networks, and libraries and edited several other books. An avid reader, she enjoys reading the classics, romance, speculative fiction, and mysteries. She writes in several genres, including children's stories featuring her pet pig Cormac. Southern Ohio in the Appalachian foothills provides a bit of paradise for Mel, three cats, four dogs, and Cormac.

Carter Jefferson, co-admin of the Practice list, took up writing fiction when he stopped being a family therapist, which he became when he stopped being a history professor, which he became when he stopped being a news reporter and editor. To his surprise, he wound up teaching creative writing to shocking numbers of eager students over the age of 50 and is still at it. He began to publish news stories at 15, and has been writing one thing or another ever since. His website is at http://carterj.homestead.com/.

Judy Lammers, co-admin of the Lovestory-L list, is married with one daughter, one five-year-old grandson, one three-year-old granddaughter, and one baby granddaughter. She lives in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, with her husband and two wonderful cats. They are both readers, which translates to lots of books in the house. She particularly likes romantic suspense novels, mysteries, fantasy and science fiction. The Star Wars movies, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter, and several movies starring a younger Robert Redford are her favorites. She and her husband also enjoy art museums, zoos, baseball, Acquire and bridge.

Shayla Mollohan and her husband Steve have traded their home in the country for a studio view of Saturn V and the space shuttle at the Space and Rocket Center in Alabama. They have an odd cat named Sophie. Shayla has poetry published in small press and academic lit mags such as Poem, Amelia, Touchstone and Slipstream -- and also on-line, 2 River View. She enjoys reading most anything, painting, cooking and watching Court TV & home shopping and design -- above all, the poetry...

Eric Petersen is the administrator on Prose-P. He lives in Upstate New York, surrounded by the Catskill Mountains. A former rock bassist, Eric is a part-time computer technician and a part-time dharma bum.

Roger Poppen, administrator of Novels-L, took up fiction writing after retiring as professor of behavior analysis and therapy. His other interests include Olympic-style weightlifting, motorcycling, his children and grandchildren. He has published one novel, MISTER LUCKY, and several shorter works of fiction and nonfiction.

Gary Presley is admin of the NFiction list and its sub-lists, Creative-D and MarketChat. He lives in the Ozarks Mountains in a big city or on a lake, depending on his wife's mood and work schedule. He has written off and on throughout his adulthood, once earning a few pesos writing news and ad copy for a radio station. After winning a regional four-state essay contest, he began writing and selling essays regularly. His memoir, tentatively titled "Riding Lessons: Learning by the Seat of My Pants" will be published by the University of Iowa Press in Fall 2008. Visit his Web site at www.garypresley.net. He also runs the workshop's blog at http://internetwritingworkshop.blogspot.com

Kathleen Purcell is the writing-list co-administrator as well as one of the permanent substitutes for the workshop. She's also an assistant administrator for Nonfiction and Creative Nonfiction. After a 20-year career as a writer that included time spent in corporate marketing, public relations, advertising and journalism, she spent another 10 years as a freelance writer specializing in health & fitness articles, and personal essays. Since 2003, Kathleen has run a non-profit food pantry and charity that feeds more than 500 people each month. She writes during the day for work, and in the evening for play.

Alex Quisenberry holds the reins of Script-W. Working on the Texas Gulf Coast, Corpus Christi, and living 34 miles away, on Lake Corpus Christi, he uses the commute time to provoke the muses.

Bob Sanchez is a retired technical writer and editor who is learning just how hard it is to market one's own first self-published novel. A veteran of a Massachusetts writer's group for over 15 years, Bob sees a great benefit in well-run writing lists such as the IWW. He is co-administrator of Practice-W.  http://www.bobsanchez.com and http://www.bobsanchez1.blogspot.com

Grace Skibicki shares responsibilities for administrating the NFiction and Market Chat lists. She retired as a registered nurse a few years back. Writing and the Workshop contribute to the enjoyment she's experiencing in retirement.

Gayle Surrette is the owner of the Fiction, SFChat-L, and YAWrite lists. After years as a computer consultant/analyst and software designer, she is now the editor of SFRevu an online review magazine covering science fiction, fantasy, and related books and media also Gumshoe Review a similar magazine for mystery and thriller books and media.

Bob Zumwalt is co-administrator of Novels-L. A California native, he's found the rough-and-tumble history of his state a worthy backdrop for his stories. With two completed novels, he's writing a third where nativism and San Francisco's famed gender-blending prove nothing new in a coming-of-age story set on the eve of the Spanish American War.

These friends are no longer actively involved as list administrators, but their work is remembered (and often, they are still there for advice or to fill in temporarily.)

Rhéal Nadeau was the overall owner and administrator of the IWW from 1993 until 2006. The workshop exists as it is today a result of his guidance and inspiration. In addition to his day job in software engineering, he participates in and records videos of dogs in agility competitions. You can find out more on his web page at www.rhealist.com.

Candace Byers was the co-administrator of the Writing discussion list. She writes fantasy novels, enjoys role-playing adventure games, and tries to keep up with Xena episodes in her spare time. By day she's a physician assistant in an internal medicine practice. She is also a lover of strong coffee, cyber-doughnuts, and her horses.

Florence Cardinal is a reserve administrator of the Lovestory-L list. She was born during the Great Depression and spent her life on the Alberta Prairie. She's always made up stories. However, she didn't get the nerve to submit her writing to publishers until she was in her thirties. She's written and published just about everything -- an astrology column, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and even a filler or two. See her web site at www.florencecardinal.com. She is currently writing romance novels.

Novelist Jennifer Chiaverini, author of the popular Elm Creek Quilt series from Simon & Schuster, graduated from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago and formerly taught for the English departments of Penn State and Edgewood College. In addition to the nine volumes of the Elm Creek Quilts series--which includes 4 New York Times bestsellers--she has written two volumes of quilt patterns inspired by her novels and designs the Elm Creek Quilts fabric lines from Red Rooster Fabrics. She lives with her husband and two sons in Madison, Wisconsin. To learn more about Jennifer Chiaverini and the world of Elm Creek Quilts, visit http://www.elmcreek.net.

Patricia L. (Pat) Johnson is reserve administrator of the Practice-W list. Patricia is a poet and freelance editor. Her poems can be found in several online journals. She lives in Des Moines, Iowa.

Lani Kraus is a former head administrator of the IWW. She is a mom to many kids, grandma to five beautiful babies, a psychologist, writer of novels and humorous nonfiction, and designer of the original IWW web site.