The IWW
Administrators
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.
THE LISTS AND ADMINISTRATORS:
IWW |
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Creative-D
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Fiction
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IWW Blog
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Lovestory-L |
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MarketChat |
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NFiction |
Gary Presley, Grace Skibicki, Diane Diekman and Kathleen
Sharp |
Novels-L
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Poetry-W
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Practice-W
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Script-W
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SFChat-L |
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Writing
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YAWrite |
Candace
Byers is one of the Writing List's Co-Admins. By day she's a Physician Assistant,
creating myriads of those tiny epics of biography (presumably nonfiction)
known as medical charts. After hours
she writes fantasy novels and some poetry.
Candace lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, their blonde
dog and their ageing Appaloosa gelding.
She enjoys swimming, walks in the ouitdoors,
knitting, episodes of The Voice and her current language project: learning
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Novelist
Robin Cain is an administrator of Novels-L.
She lives in ScottsdaleAZ with her husband, two dogs, horses and a donkey. To cool off, she spends summers in Pacific NW.
She is the author of two books, THE SECRET MISS RABBIT KEPT and WHEN DREAMS BLEED. She attributes any of her writing success
to participation in the Novels group. Learn more at her website.
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Norman Cooper
is an administrator for the Practice-W list, a web content editor for the
Practice-W exercise archives, and provides weekly content to the Internet
Writing Workshop blog. When not reading and critiquing our future critically
acclaimed authors, Norman is hard at work on his own writing projects. In
order to fund these projects, Norman works in commercial property maintenance
in Houston, TX. |
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Diane Diekman is an administrator for Nfiction. A South Dakota farm girl, she joined Nfiction in 1999 while a Navy captain living in Japan. She self-published two memoirs, NAVY GREENSHIRT and A FARM IN THE HIDEWOOD. The University of Illinois Press published her two biographies, LIVE FAST, LOVE HARD: THE FARON YOUNG STORY and TWENTIETH CENTURY DRIFTER: THE LIFE OF MARTY ROBBINS. 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 now lives in South Dakota and is active in veterans' organizations. |
Ruth
Douillette a back-up admin for the Practice list,
is a retired teacher, who freelances as a writer,
book reviewer, and photographer. You'll likely find her at her laptop,
traipsing around with a camera, or reading a book. Ruth blogs at Upstream and
Down~ http://upstreamanddown.blogspot.com. |
Jody Ewing,
Co-administrator of Novels-L, and a reserve administrator for the Writing
list. She 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. |
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Lucille
Falcone is the administrator on Script-w. Lucille writes computer
software for a living, and everything else for the more important aspects of
real-life. Her hobbies include fish keeping and gardening. |
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. |
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Charles
Hightower is an administrator for the Practice-W list. His career has him
wrestle software and databases into submission and write riveting technical
documentation about the adventures – well maybe that's a stretch. He
graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery, majoring in Information
Systems, and went on to collect a graduate degree from the same institution.
He enjoys writing fiction for competition, has collected a number of first
place wins. He's played the bagpipes for over 30 years, and you'll often find
him teaching undergrad classes for Faulkner University. |
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. |
Patricia
L. (Pat) Johnson co-administers the script-w list. Patricia is a poet and
freelance editor. Her poems can be found in several online journals. She
lives in Des Moines, Iowa. |
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Mariane Kulick is the
assistant administrator on Poetry-W. Some years past retirement age, she
lives part of the year in Florida and spends the summer months in New York.
With a background in painting, she is doing some experimental work melding
her painting with her poetry. She nudges the muse while riding her bicycle
around town every morning and evening. |
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, two wonderful cats, and 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. |
Barrie
Mulligan is the Poetry-W co-admin. Barrie lives in Australia where his
family has been unsuccessfully trying to overcome their convict heritage. He
has been: a photographer; a Software Engineer; has been recorded debugging
C-code in his sleep; was responsible for a daughter and a son; and
occasionally answers the begging of Odette his cat. He enjoys writing poetry,
Devonshire teas, the latest technology from Apple and the Facebook category
"It's complicated." |
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Eric
Petersen is the administrator of the IWW Blog. 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. The IWW Blog is located at at
http://internetwritingworkshop.blogspot.com
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Paul Pekin has been a member of the IWW
for about ten years, exact dates escape him, during which
time he has written and published a number of short stories and essays that
otherwise might not have been written at all. Paul is a retired police
officer who had a parallel career as a teacher and writer. He lives quietly
in an old Chicago neighborhood with his wife and a black and white cat. |
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Gary Presley Gary Presley is admin of the Nonfiction list and assistant manager of the Internet Writing Workshop. He lives in the Ozarks Mountains near a town named for a South American revolutionary. He has written off and on throughout his adulthood, once employed writing news and ad copy for a small town radio station. After winning a regional four-state essay contest, he began writing and selling essays regularly. His memoir, "Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio," was a 2008 publication of the University of Iowa Press. Most of his writing time is now devoted to reviewing books for five different magazines. Visit his website at www.garypresley.com. |
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Judith
Quaempts helps admin our Novels-L list. A
Military brat, she was lucky enough to spend early childhood in Hawaii.
Married at nineteen, she had four children by age twenty-six. All are grown
and doing her proud. She spent most of her working life as a medical secretary
until she moved to Virginia and worked for an association in Washington DC
(executive assistant to a Sr. VP in science and technology). She returned to
Oregon 2002 and bought a house in a small town in eastern part of the state.
She likes open ground and uninterrupted sky--and has plenty of that there. |
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Alex
Quisenberry is emeritus owner of our Script-W
list. 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.bobsanchez1.blogspot.com
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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. |
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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. |
Former
administrators
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.)
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. |
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Novelist
Jennifer
Chiaverini is the Writing-list administrator and author of the popular
Elm Creek Quilt series from Simon & Schuster. She graduated from the
University of Notre Dame, 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.
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Alice
Folkart is the administrator of the Practice-W
list. She recently retired to Hawaii, where writing keeps her out of the sun.
Finding the IWW four years ago inspired her to try
writing fiction. She had journaled since childhood,
but didn't know she could write a 'story.' In addition to participating on
the IWW, she co-directs an Internet poetry
workshop, Perfect Day 4 Poetry. When not writing, she is playing ukulele,
teaching computer skills at the local senior center, and paddling her own
canoe. |
Greg Gunther
is the IWW's was an overall owner. He was chief cook and
bottle washer, and offered technical advice to members having email and
formatting problems. A retired aerospace engineer, he lives in Southern
California with his psychologist wife, daughter, granddaughter, and Goldendoodle dog. Also, some so-so cats, two goats, and
between one and three horses, depending on who they are staying with. It's
not wise to get between three horses. |
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Carter
Jefferson, an admin and all-round helper on 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/.
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Chris Johnson is the ex-administrator for LoveStory-L. She writes romances (of course!) and speculative fiction in between knitting, spinning, and weaving. Chris pays for these pastimes with database programming. She lives in California with three humans, thirteen horses, five cats, and three dogs. |
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. |
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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 and home shopping and design
-- above all, the poetry... |
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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. |
Dave
Swinford resides in the mountains of south-central
New Mexico. He's taught creative writing and published a non-fiction book, If
I'd Known Where I Was Going, I'd Have Taken A Shortcut. He has also
written four novels and a screenplay, none of which have yet been published
or produced. In addition to his creative work, he also writes and edits copy
for various local businesses and individuals. |
David Luddington is the resident Brit in our group, and the assistant admin on Novels-L. |