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Writing is all about creating, communicating, and sharing. As a paid EPIC member, we invite you to share your website and writing credits with the writing community.
EPIC members below have given permission to be listed, along with some of their credits. We will be updating frequently. If you are an EPIC member and would like your name, website, and writing credits added to this list, please contact us.
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Judith Works, EPIC Board President
Biography: Judith, a founding member of EPIC Group Writers, is the author of a memoir about living in Rome and working for the United Nations titled Coins in the Fountain. She enjoys writing flash fiction and travel stories, and is working on a novel set in Rome.
Published work: Coins in the Fountain as well as articles in My Edmonds News and Wanted in Rome and several pieces of flash fiction in literary journals.
Social Media: FB Author's page: judithworks author; Instagram: worksjudith; blog:Https://aLittleLightExercise.blogspot.com; website: judithworks.net
Laura Moe, VP Development & Writing Group leader
Biography: Author, radio host, and writing teacher Laura Moe spent most of her working life as a librarian and English teacher in central and Southeastern Ohio, but moved to Seattle where she writes full-time and is an active member of SCBWI.
Published work: Parallel Lines (Fat Cats, 2015); Breakfast with Neruda (Simon & Schuster/Merit Press, 2016) - named by the New York Public Library as one of the Best Books for Teens in 2016. She is owned by a spoiled white cat and is working on a sequel to Breakfast With Neruda.
Social Media: https://bookclubbabble.com/interviews/interview-with-ya-author-laura-moe-on-breakfast-with-neruda/;
http://laura-moe.blogspot.com/; http://www.blogtalkradio.com/authorsontheair/2016/08/03/jacquelyn-mitchards-summer-scribes-presents-author-laura-moe
Susan Frederick, VP Membership
Biography: Susan Frederick is an award winning writer who has published poems, short stories and essays, and is currently working on a historical novel set in Washington state in 1930. She is a native of Washington state who grew up in small logging towns nestled in the foothills of Mt. Rainier. She lives in Kirkland, Washington and is a member of EPIC Group Writers.
Published work: Rise & Shine, (publisher: Gather Here, an imprint of Homeostasis Press); Timber Town (publisher: Gather Here); Poetry Awards: Write on the Sound 2018 , EPIC Writing Contest 2017; poetry and essays in Prime Time magazine.
Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/susanfrederickwriter/; Twitter: @SusanFrederic11
Mindy Halleck, Secretary
Biography: Mindy Halleck is a writer, an award-winning author, and writing instructor. Her debut novel Return To Sender was voted in the top twenty Indie books of the year by Kirkus Review, it also received the ‘Readers’ Choice’ award - she has won writing contests including a Writer’s Digest fiction contest. Halleck is an active member of the Pacific Northwest writing community, and in addition to being a writer, she is a happily married, globe-trotting beachcomber, gardener, proud grandma, and three-time cancer survivor.
Published work: Return To Sender. Publisher, Better Life Press, available on Amazon
Social Media: www.MindyHalleck.com; Twitter: @MindyHalleck
Victoria 'Tori' Peters, Treasurer
Biography: Victoria is writing a memoir about her life raising four children in Africa and Asia. She is a retired teacher and is treasurer for EPIC Group Writers. In the past three years, she walked the Camino de Santiago by herself all the way to the to the Atlantic Ocean and trekked in the Andes to Choquequirao, Peru.
Published work: Travel articles in My Edmonds News; Contributor to True Stories - The Narrative Project, Volume 1 (2019).
Nicole 'Nicki' Chen, Board Member at Large
Biography: I'm a writer and blogger living in Edmonds. My first novel, Tiger Tail Soup, a Novel of China at War, was published in 2013. I'm working on a second novel. It's the story of an expat who lives in the Philippines and then in Vanuatu, a woman who has her heart set on having a baby. I'm a graduate of Seattle University, and I have an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Published work: Tiger Tail Soup, a novel of China at war.
Social Media: Website/Blog: www.nickichenwrites.com; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NickiChenAuthor/; Twitter: @NickiChenAuthor; Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8261760.
Paddy Eger, Board Member at Large
Biography: Paddy is the published author of both non fiction and fiction books and materials, a presenter, a speaker, a blogger and a traveler. Currently her interests include writing YA, early chapter books and memoir.
Published work: Award-winning books including a YA trilogy: 84 Ribbons, When the Music Stops-Dance On, Letters to Follow-A Dancer's Adventure; and Tasman-An Innocent Convict's Struggle for Freedom
Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paddyegerfictionauthor; Twitter: @paddyegerwriter; Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/paddyeger; Website: www.paddyeger.com; Blogs: www.paddyeger.com/blog/author
Vanessa Arpin, Board Member at Large
Biography: Vanessa Arpin has won several awards for her writing. In 2017, she won a scholarship to the Mendocino Writer’s Conference for her Young Adult submission, and her book was a top finalist in the Young Adult genre. In 2014, she was recognized by the Seattle Public Library for her poetry.
Social Media: Vanessaarpin.com
Laura Kemp, Board Member at Large
Biography: After retiring from a career in public safety in 2013 (where my writing was limited to producing rather uninspired training manuals) I finally have the time to pursue writing fiction. I am a member of PNWA, SCBWI, and EPIC Group Writers, as well as a founding member my Kitsap-based critique group, Sound Writers.
Social media: Gamblecreekstudio.com
Gerald Bigelow, EPIC Board Member at large & Poetry Group leader
Published work: Poetry, poems published in Arizona 100 Years, Between the Lines, Memories Looking Through a Screen Door, Soundings from the Salish Sea: A Pacific Northwest Poetry Anthology.
Kizzie Jones, EPIC Board Member at Large
Biography: Children’s author Kizzie Jones blends her love of dachshunds and her love of the ocean to create whimsical tall tales to delight readers of all ages. Kizzie makes her home in Edmonds with her beloved Thom and three dachshunds!
Published work: "How Dachshunds Came to Be" (2012); "A Tall Tale About a Dachshund & a Pelican" (2016); "A Tall Tale About Dachshunds in Costumes"(2019); "Writing in Place: Prose & Poetry from the Pacific Northwest" Anthology (2019); Northwest Prime Time, Chaplaincy Today, Military.com, and CHSSM Diakonie, and has been a first-place non-fiction winner for Write on the Sound with her piece titled, "The Waters of Compassion."
Social media: Website: https://www.kizziejones.com/; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kizziejonesauthor; Twitter:
https://twitter.com/kizeliz; Goodreads: https://www.go:odreads.com/author/show/6615823.Kizzie_Jones
Vivian Murray, EPIC member
Published work: Little Bookshop in Venice, Shanghai Spirits
Sarah Cannon, EPIC member
Biography: Sarah Cannon was born in Seattle and raised in Seattle’s north-end neighborhoods. Sarah holds an MFA from Goddard College, where she received the Spirit of Goddard award and for whom she later helped launch the Lighthouse Writers' Conference and Retreat in Port Townsend, Washington.
Social Media: Website:https://cannonsarah.com/; Twitter: @sarahmecannon; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cannonmesarah; Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahmecannon/
Published work: New York Times, Salon.com, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Brainline.org, and Bitch Magazine. Her memoir The Shame of Losing was named a Finalist "Best Book" Award by American Book Fest: Family category.
Kristi Lyn Reddy, EPIC member
Biography: Memoirist, short story/essay writer, childrens picture books
Social Media: wordpress.livethinkwrite; Facebook: /reddy2write
Christine Pinto, EPIC member & Writing Group leader
Biography: Writer, teacher, writing coach and living history enthusiast. Teaching Oregon Trail history and historical fiction writing to fourth graders. Writing historical fiction and fantasy for children and young adults, and picture books. Helping kids and adults bring their stories to life through writing exercises and coaching.
Social Media: http://www.christinepintowrites.com/
Susan Ferguson, EPIC member
Published work: "Lopez Island", Images of America Series; "An Impossible Life", screenplay; professional writing and editing experience
Joe Rice, EPIC member and Writing Group leader
Biography: I am a retired educator now working to complete a memoir and another nonfiction book on Multiage Education. I also write poetry, short stories and educational articles. I'm also an avid of many genre and love to participate in writing groups. Never too old to learn.
Published work: Nongraded Multiage Education - A Resource Book, Edmonds School District Press 1990, 1992; Short stories published in others' collections:- Joseph Rice: Generations, edited by Darryl Teruya 2003; "One Way Out," The Greater Good,: Life Lessons from Hawai'i's Leaders, by Evan and Kari Leong 2008; "Untitled," Do It Anyway by Kent M. Keith 2003; "A survey and Analysis of Oral Reading Miscues Made By Mexican and Mexican American Migrants 1979; "Kupu Hou: To Sprout and Grow Anew," A white paper on the future of education presented to the Directors of Mid-Pacific Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii 2012.
Carrie Arpin, EPIC member
Biography: I have been writing weekly recipes for people living in tiny homes for the past year. I provide technically challenging recipes that are achievable in small kitchens without technical tools. When I am not blogging, I enjoy writing suspenseful mystery novels with a sense of humor.
Curt Smith, EPIC member
Curt is retired from Verizon where he taught management classes and was an organization specialist. Now he’s a volunteer literacy tutor at Everett Community College and enjoys writing as a hobby. He’s published in various management journals such as Quality Digest, Manage Magazine, the Journal for Quality and Participation, and has also written articles for The Journal Newspapers and Northwest Primetime. His self-published books are listed on his author’s page athttps://www.amazon.com/Curt-Smith/e/B007N8JLF2 . Curt welcomes readers of his blog, The Writer’s Corner, at https://mochateaoh.wordpress.com.
Kim Votry, EPIC member
Biography: Kim is an educator and editor currently working at the University of Washington as a professional development trainer. She has provided both developmental and proofreading editing services on over 80 book projects, and is a past board member of EPIC.
Published work: Baby's First Signs; More Baby's First Signs; A Book of Colors; Out For a Walk; and My Own Magic.
Social media: Good Reads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/346474.Kim_Votry; Twitter: @kimvotry; Facebook: My Own Magic, by Kim Votry
Erica Miner, EPIC member
Biography: Former Metropolitan Opera violinist ERICA MINER is now an award-winning author, screenwriter, arts writer and lecturer. Erica won the Fiction Prize in the Direct from the Author Book Awards for her debut novel, Travels With My Lovers. She recently released Death by Opera, the second in her “Operatic Mystery” series.
Published work: Travels With My Lovers; FourEver Friends; Murder in the Pit; Death by Opera
Lora Hein, EPIC member
Biography: Lora is returning to writing in retirement. Her first focus is a memoir based on her two month journey to the Galápagos Islands in 1973 and the life lessons she learned there. She lives in Edmonds where she enjoys gardening and creative cooking as well as dancing and reading. She makes every effort to retain her connection to nature.
Kathleen Glassburn, EPIC member
Biography: Kathleen Glassburn earned an MFA in Creative Writing with a fiction emphasis from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She is managing editor of The Writer's Workshop Review.
Published work: The Santa Fe Trilogy; Making It Work; Where Do Stories Come From?
Social Media: Website: www.kathleenglassburn.com; Facebook: www.facebook.com/Kathleen.glassburn; Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/author/show/8915733.Kathleen_Glassburn
Jody Dills (pen name: Margo Jodyne Dills), EPIC member
Biography: Margo Jodyne Dills is an active member of Hugo House Seattle; former staff writer for Banderas News, Puerto Vallarta; published poet. She writes guest blogs and stays busy querying her novel, writing poetry, and keeping her adorable rescue pup Frank from sniffing at Prick, her shy bearded dragon lizard.
Published work: Banderas News; Sixfold; Scarlet Leaf
Social Media: Website: mjdills.blogspot.com; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mjdills; Twitter: @mjodidills; Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/88992269-margo-dills
Dorothy Van Soest, EPIC member
Biography: Dorothy Van Soest, is an educator, activist and author with a publication record of eleven books, including three novels, Just Mercy (2014), At the Center (2016), and Death, Unchartered (2018).
Published work: Just Mercy (2014); At the Center (2016); Death, Unchartered (2018)
Social media: Website: https://www.dorothyvansoest.com; Facebook: https://www.facebookcom/dorothyauthor; Twitter: https://twitter.com/dorothyjvs; Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/769770.Dorothy-Van-Soest
Lisa Sawyer, EPIC member
Biography: My primary strength is as a technology storyteller. Because of my experience in journalism and as a technology analyst, I excel at finding the nexus between industry trends and competitive product positioning that creates stories with the larger educational context valued by the media.
Published work: Entrepreneur Magazine, Parcel Magazine, ParentMap, Puget Sound Business Journal, Wireless Integration, and many others.
Social Media: Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-geschke-sawyer-9486372/
Susan Wingate, EPIC member
Biography: Susan Wingate is a #1 Amazon bestseller and an award-winning author. Wingate’s dark, gritty writing spans the breadth of genres including mystery, thriller, romantic suspense, paranormal, inspirational and Christian fiction, fantasy, memoir, and nonfiction.
Published work: For 14 Titles (fiction and nonfiction) please go to: www.susanwingate.com/books
Social Media: Website: www.susanwingate.com/blog; Facebook: www.facebook.com/authorsusanwingate; Twitter: susanwingate; Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/susan_wingate
Diane Naab, EPIC member
Biography: Diane Naab is an artist, former art gallery owner, world traveler, and published author, now living in the Seattle area.
Published work: Poetry and short stories published in four consecutive issues of the annual literary review, Inside Passages, in southeast Alaska.
Carol Sanford, EPIC member
Published work: Three award-winning non-fiction. The Responsible Business, The Responsible Entrepreneur with Wiley; The Regenerative Business, with Nicholas Brealey and soon to be released No More Feedback self-published. 3 Podcasts and Blogs. The Regenerative Business, The Responsible Capitalist, Business Second Opinion. Producer The Regenerative Summit. Faculty @ Universities in Europe and UW. Senior Fellow of Social Innovation at Babson College.
Social Media: Website: www.carolsanford.com; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carolsanford2; Twitter: carolsanford
Howard Tinsley, EPIC member
Biography: I am a retired university professor with extensive experience editing and publishing in psychological journals and books. I began to study creative writing in the early 1990 but until now have written only for personal pleasure. I have now begun two fiction novels I hope to publish when completed.
Published work: Tinsley, H. E. A., Lease, S. H., & Wiersma, N. S. G. (Eds.). (2016). Contemporary theory and practice in counseling and psychotherapy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Tinsley, H. E. A., & Lease, S. H. (Eds.). (2008). Encyclopedia of counseling, Volume 2: Personal counseling and mental health problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Tinsley, H. E. A., & Brown, S.D. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of applied multivariate statistics and mathematical modeling. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Social Media: I am on both Goodreads and LibraryThing but participate primarily on the latter. My LibraryThing profile can be found at: librarything.com/profile/Tatoosh
Curtis Colbert, EPIC member
Biography: Curt Colbert is the author of the Jake Rossiter & Miss Jenkins mystery series, set in Seattle in the 1940's. He also edited Seattle Noir for Akashic Books. In addition, along with Waverly Fitzgerald, he co-wrote The Barking Detective series under the pen name Waverly Curtis. Curt is a member of Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime.
Published work: Rat City; Sayonaraville; Queer Street; Seattle Noir; Dial C for Chihuahua; Chihuahua Confidential; The Big Chihuahua; The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice; The Silence of the Chihuahuas.
Hank Landau, EPIC member
Biography: Hank and his family have lived in Woodway, WA since 1973. He is the founder of Landau Associates, a regional engineering firm. Since his retirement he has been active in human rights, environmental organizations and bicycling and kayaking adventures.
Published work: The Misadventures of a Cross-Country Kayaker, a true story describing the authors Quixotic voyage from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
Chris Cantu, EPIC member
Biography: MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington and a longtime resident of Woodway. Along with a small cohort of fellow writers and photographers, I recently contributed to the creation of a book of poems and photos about our community. In 2016 I was awarded first place in the EPIC Adult Poetry contest, which was welcome inspiration to return to my passion for writing poetry. Thanks, EPIC!
Publications: Crab Creek Review, Atlanta Journal, California Quarterly, mid-America Poetry Review.
Donna Anderson, EPIC member
Biography: Donna Lee Anderson wrote her first book (three pages) when she was six years old. (It is unpublished.) She wrote stories for her children’s and student’s birthdays and holidays, and memories of her childhood living in a logging camp during WWII. She’s published anthology stories, three adult novels, one book of short stories, and one non-fiction book.
Published work: Books: I'm Just Curious, Project Emily, One Sentence Stories (Anthology 1/2/3), The Mighty Pen (Anthology), Potluck of Short Stories (Romance, Mystery, Poems, Memories).
Adrienne Fermoyle, EPIC member
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Courtenay Schurman, EPIC member
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Regina Sadono, EPIC member
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Gretchen Murphy, EPIC member
Biography: Gretchen is a native of Seattle and has lived with her family in Bothell since 1976. She worked in healthcare and education. She retired in 2017 as Director of the Master’s program in Health Informatics and Health Information Management at the University of Washington. Gretchen has enjoyed writing and contributing to textbooks over many years and is now interested in exploring new writing experiences.
Published work: Poetry: In the Blink of an Eye, Northwest Prime Time, April 2019. Textbooks: Electronic Health Records - Changing the Vision, 1999; Systems Analysis and Computer Applications in Health Information Management, 1983; Medical Records in Health Information, 1979.
Arthur Mickel, EPIC member
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Abha Sharma, EPIC member
Biography: Abha is a research scientist at the Department of Bioengineering at University of Washington. A self-taught lip reader, she was diagnosed with bi-lateral sensorineural hearing loss only in her early teenage years. Her passions include dancing, writing, painting, cooking and rediscovering ancient alternative nutritional therapies.
Published work: Scientific articles in various peer-reviewed journals and books. Puja with Mother in Hearing Life; January/February 2019; Hearingloss.org
Kimberly Christensen, EPIC member
Biography: Kimberly Christensen never strays far from the written word, whether she’s penning fictional worlds, engrossed in a book, or hand-lettering protest signs. She lives with her husband, children, dog, 40,000 honeybees and a mischievous house rabbit in Seattle.
Published work: "Still Waters," a short story available as part of the anthology 2047: Short Stories From Our Common Future or at Modern Literature Magazine https://www.modernliterature.org/2018/02/08/still-waters-by-kimberly-christensen/. "The Goodluck Camera," a short story available as part of the anthology Nothing Is As It Was. "Attracting Songbirds," a short story available as part of the anthology Resurrection Trust.
Dori Gillam, EPIC member
Biography: Dori Gillam is a Writer for 3rd Act Magazine and is on the Speaker’s Bureau for Humanities Washington. After caring for her parents for 7 years and working for AARP, Sound Generations and The Bayview retirement community, she speaks about resilience, positive aging and ageism.
Published work: Numerous articles for 3rd Act Magazine.
Alison (Ali) Eden Ersfeld, EPIC member
Biography: Ali is obsessed with Meade notebooks; they are her dearest friends. She has been traveling with them, filling them, and excavating her wounds in them since the 80's. When she's not writing, she's teaching creative writing, mythology, and English at Meadowdale High school, or she's instructing a yoga class at Bindi Yoga in Lynnwood. Ali also facilitates yoga and writing workshops, combining these two deeply reflective practices.
Published work: Unmasked Magazine; EPIC Group Writers 2018 Contest Winner - 2nd Place Poetry
Anna Dahland Kim, EPIC member
Biography: I have written textbooks used in high school English classes in South Korea for the past 25 years. I currently write memoir, personal essays, poetry and fiction.
Published work: High School English Conversation, Chunjae Publishing, South Korea, 2016. "Silence" (poem), Licton Springs Review, vol. 24, 2015.
Ceejae Devine, EPIC member
Donna Rudiger, EPIC member
Biography: Donna Rudiger began writing during her adolescent years growing up in Pennsylvania. She migrated to the Pacific Northwest in 1974 to study wildlife photography and wilderness living. She is an award-winning poet, a recent graduate of the Institute for Children’s Literature, an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Skagit Valley Writer’s League, the Seattle Storyteller’s Guild and the EPIC Group Writers of Edmonds. She is a retired technical writer and lives with the wildlife at her home in the woods of Arlington.
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Biography: Judith, a founding member of EPIC Group Writers, is the author of a memoir about living in Rome and working for the United Nations titled Coins in the Fountain. She enjoys writing flash fiction and travel stories, and is working on a novel set in Rome.
Published work: Coins in the Fountain as well as articles in My Edmonds News and Wanted in Rome and several pieces of flash fiction in literary journals.
Social Media: FB Author's page: judithworks author; Instagram: worksjudith; blog:Https://aLittleLightExercise.blogspot.com; website: judithworks.net
Laura Moe, VP Development & Writing Group leader
Biography: Author, radio host, and writing teacher Laura Moe spent most of her working life as a librarian and English teacher in central and Southeastern Ohio, but moved to Seattle where she writes full-time and is an active member of SCBWI.
Published work: Parallel Lines (Fat Cats, 2015); Breakfast with Neruda (Simon & Schuster/Merit Press, 2016) - named by the New York Public Library as one of the Best Books for Teens in 2016. She is owned by a spoiled white cat and is working on a sequel to Breakfast With Neruda.
Social Media: https://bookclubbabble.com/interviews/interview-with-ya-author-laura-moe-on-breakfast-with-neruda/;
http://laura-moe.blogspot.com/; http://www.blogtalkradio.com/authorsontheair/2016/08/03/jacquelyn-mitchards-summer-scribes-presents-author-laura-moe
Susan Frederick, VP Membership
Biography: Susan Frederick is an award winning writer who has published poems, short stories and essays, and is currently working on a historical novel set in Washington state in 1930. She is a native of Washington state who grew up in small logging towns nestled in the foothills of Mt. Rainier. She lives in Kirkland, Washington and is a member of EPIC Group Writers.
Published work: Rise & Shine, (publisher: Gather Here, an imprint of Homeostasis Press); Timber Town (publisher: Gather Here); Poetry Awards: Write on the Sound 2018 , EPIC Writing Contest 2017; poetry and essays in Prime Time magazine.
Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/susanfrederickwriter/; Twitter: @SusanFrederic11
Mindy Halleck, Secretary
Biography: Mindy Halleck is a writer, an award-winning author, and writing instructor. Her debut novel Return To Sender was voted in the top twenty Indie books of the year by Kirkus Review, it also received the ‘Readers’ Choice’ award - she has won writing contests including a Writer’s Digest fiction contest. Halleck is an active member of the Pacific Northwest writing community, and in addition to being a writer, she is a happily married, globe-trotting beachcomber, gardener, proud grandma, and three-time cancer survivor.
Published work: Return To Sender. Publisher, Better Life Press, available on Amazon
Social Media: www.MindyHalleck.com; Twitter: @MindyHalleck
Victoria 'Tori' Peters, Treasurer
Biography: Victoria is writing a memoir about her life raising four children in Africa and Asia. She is a retired teacher and is treasurer for EPIC Group Writers. In the past three years, she walked the Camino de Santiago by herself all the way to the to the Atlantic Ocean and trekked in the Andes to Choquequirao, Peru.
Published work: Travel articles in My Edmonds News; Contributor to True Stories - The Narrative Project, Volume 1 (2019).
Nicole 'Nicki' Chen, Board Member at Large
Biography: I'm a writer and blogger living in Edmonds. My first novel, Tiger Tail Soup, a Novel of China at War, was published in 2013. I'm working on a second novel. It's the story of an expat who lives in the Philippines and then in Vanuatu, a woman who has her heart set on having a baby. I'm a graduate of Seattle University, and I have an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Published work: Tiger Tail Soup, a novel of China at war.
Social Media: Website/Blog: www.nickichenwrites.com; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NickiChenAuthor/; Twitter: @NickiChenAuthor; Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8261760.
Paddy Eger, Board Member at Large
Biography: Paddy is the published author of both non fiction and fiction books and materials, a presenter, a speaker, a blogger and a traveler. Currently her interests include writing YA, early chapter books and memoir.
Published work: Award-winning books including a YA trilogy: 84 Ribbons, When the Music Stops-Dance On, Letters to Follow-A Dancer's Adventure; and Tasman-An Innocent Convict's Struggle for Freedom
Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paddyegerfictionauthor; Twitter: @paddyegerwriter; Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/paddyeger; Website: www.paddyeger.com; Blogs: www.paddyeger.com/blog/author
Vanessa Arpin, Board Member at Large
Biography: Vanessa Arpin has won several awards for her writing. In 2017, she won a scholarship to the Mendocino Writer’s Conference for her Young Adult submission, and her book was a top finalist in the Young Adult genre. In 2014, she was recognized by the Seattle Public Library for her poetry.
Social Media: Vanessaarpin.com
Laura Kemp, Board Member at Large
Biography: After retiring from a career in public safety in 2013 (where my writing was limited to producing rather uninspired training manuals) I finally have the time to pursue writing fiction. I am a member of PNWA, SCBWI, and EPIC Group Writers, as well as a founding member my Kitsap-based critique group, Sound Writers.
Social media: Gamblecreekstudio.com
Gerald Bigelow, EPIC Board Member at large & Poetry Group leader
Published work: Poetry, poems published in Arizona 100 Years, Between the Lines, Memories Looking Through a Screen Door, Soundings from the Salish Sea: A Pacific Northwest Poetry Anthology.
Kizzie Jones, EPIC Board Member at Large
Biography: Children’s author Kizzie Jones blends her love of dachshunds and her love of the ocean to create whimsical tall tales to delight readers of all ages. Kizzie makes her home in Edmonds with her beloved Thom and three dachshunds!
Published work: "How Dachshunds Came to Be" (2012); "A Tall Tale About a Dachshund & a Pelican" (2016); "A Tall Tale About Dachshunds in Costumes"(2019); "Writing in Place: Prose & Poetry from the Pacific Northwest" Anthology (2019); Northwest Prime Time, Chaplaincy Today, Military.com, and CHSSM Diakonie, and has been a first-place non-fiction winner for Write on the Sound with her piece titled, "The Waters of Compassion."
Social media: Website: https://www.kizziejones.com/; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kizziejonesauthor; Twitter:
https://twitter.com/kizeliz; Goodreads: https://www.go:odreads.com/author/show/6615823.Kizzie_Jones
Vivian Murray, EPIC member
Published work: Little Bookshop in Venice, Shanghai Spirits
Sarah Cannon, EPIC member
Biography: Sarah Cannon was born in Seattle and raised in Seattle’s north-end neighborhoods. Sarah holds an MFA from Goddard College, where she received the Spirit of Goddard award and for whom she later helped launch the Lighthouse Writers' Conference and Retreat in Port Townsend, Washington.
Social Media: Website:https://cannonsarah.com/; Twitter: @sarahmecannon; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cannonmesarah; Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahmecannon/
Published work: New York Times, Salon.com, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Brainline.org, and Bitch Magazine. Her memoir The Shame of Losing was named a Finalist "Best Book" Award by American Book Fest: Family category.
Kristi Lyn Reddy, EPIC member
Biography: Memoirist, short story/essay writer, childrens picture books
Social Media: wordpress.livethinkwrite; Facebook: /reddy2write
Christine Pinto, EPIC member & Writing Group leader
Biography: Writer, teacher, writing coach and living history enthusiast. Teaching Oregon Trail history and historical fiction writing to fourth graders. Writing historical fiction and fantasy for children and young adults, and picture books. Helping kids and adults bring their stories to life through writing exercises and coaching.
Social Media: http://www.christinepintowrites.com/
Susan Ferguson, EPIC member
Published work: "Lopez Island", Images of America Series; "An Impossible Life", screenplay; professional writing and editing experience
Joe Rice, EPIC member and Writing Group leader
Biography: I am a retired educator now working to complete a memoir and another nonfiction book on Multiage Education. I also write poetry, short stories and educational articles. I'm also an avid of many genre and love to participate in writing groups. Never too old to learn.
Published work: Nongraded Multiage Education - A Resource Book, Edmonds School District Press 1990, 1992; Short stories published in others' collections:- Joseph Rice: Generations, edited by Darryl Teruya 2003; "One Way Out," The Greater Good,: Life Lessons from Hawai'i's Leaders, by Evan and Kari Leong 2008; "Untitled," Do It Anyway by Kent M. Keith 2003; "A survey and Analysis of Oral Reading Miscues Made By Mexican and Mexican American Migrants 1979; "Kupu Hou: To Sprout and Grow Anew," A white paper on the future of education presented to the Directors of Mid-Pacific Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii 2012.
Carrie Arpin, EPIC member
Biography: I have been writing weekly recipes for people living in tiny homes for the past year. I provide technically challenging recipes that are achievable in small kitchens without technical tools. When I am not blogging, I enjoy writing suspenseful mystery novels with a sense of humor.
Curt Smith, EPIC member
Curt is retired from Verizon where he taught management classes and was an organization specialist. Now he’s a volunteer literacy tutor at Everett Community College and enjoys writing as a hobby. He’s published in various management journals such as Quality Digest, Manage Magazine, the Journal for Quality and Participation, and has also written articles for The Journal Newspapers and Northwest Primetime. His self-published books are listed on his author’s page athttps://www.amazon.com/Curt-Smith/e/B007N8JLF2 . Curt welcomes readers of his blog, The Writer’s Corner, at https://mochateaoh.wordpress.com.
Kim Votry, EPIC member
Biography: Kim is an educator and editor currently working at the University of Washington as a professional development trainer. She has provided both developmental and proofreading editing services on over 80 book projects, and is a past board member of EPIC.
Published work: Baby's First Signs; More Baby's First Signs; A Book of Colors; Out For a Walk; and My Own Magic.
Social media: Good Reads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/346474.Kim_Votry; Twitter: @kimvotry; Facebook: My Own Magic, by Kim Votry
Erica Miner, EPIC member
Biography: Former Metropolitan Opera violinist ERICA MINER is now an award-winning author, screenwriter, arts writer and lecturer. Erica won the Fiction Prize in the Direct from the Author Book Awards for her debut novel, Travels With My Lovers. She recently released Death by Opera, the second in her “Operatic Mystery” series.
Published work: Travels With My Lovers; FourEver Friends; Murder in the Pit; Death by Opera
Lora Hein, EPIC member
Biography: Lora is returning to writing in retirement. Her first focus is a memoir based on her two month journey to the Galápagos Islands in 1973 and the life lessons she learned there. She lives in Edmonds where she enjoys gardening and creative cooking as well as dancing and reading. She makes every effort to retain her connection to nature.
Kathleen Glassburn, EPIC member
Biography: Kathleen Glassburn earned an MFA in Creative Writing with a fiction emphasis from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She is managing editor of The Writer's Workshop Review.
Published work: The Santa Fe Trilogy; Making It Work; Where Do Stories Come From?
Social Media: Website: www.kathleenglassburn.com; Facebook: www.facebook.com/Kathleen.glassburn; Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/author/show/8915733.Kathleen_Glassburn
Jody Dills (pen name: Margo Jodyne Dills), EPIC member
Biography: Margo Jodyne Dills is an active member of Hugo House Seattle; former staff writer for Banderas News, Puerto Vallarta; published poet. She writes guest blogs and stays busy querying her novel, writing poetry, and keeping her adorable rescue pup Frank from sniffing at Prick, her shy bearded dragon lizard.
Published work: Banderas News; Sixfold; Scarlet Leaf
Social Media: Website: mjdills.blogspot.com; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mjdills; Twitter: @mjodidills; Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/88992269-margo-dills
Dorothy Van Soest, EPIC member
Biography: Dorothy Van Soest, is an educator, activist and author with a publication record of eleven books, including three novels, Just Mercy (2014), At the Center (2016), and Death, Unchartered (2018).
Published work: Just Mercy (2014); At the Center (2016); Death, Unchartered (2018)
Social media: Website: https://www.dorothyvansoest.com; Facebook: https://www.facebookcom/dorothyauthor; Twitter: https://twitter.com/dorothyjvs; Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/769770.Dorothy-Van-Soest
Lisa Sawyer, EPIC member
Biography: My primary strength is as a technology storyteller. Because of my experience in journalism and as a technology analyst, I excel at finding the nexus between industry trends and competitive product positioning that creates stories with the larger educational context valued by the media.
Published work: Entrepreneur Magazine, Parcel Magazine, ParentMap, Puget Sound Business Journal, Wireless Integration, and many others.
Social Media: Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-geschke-sawyer-9486372/
Susan Wingate, EPIC member
Biography: Susan Wingate is a #1 Amazon bestseller and an award-winning author. Wingate’s dark, gritty writing spans the breadth of genres including mystery, thriller, romantic suspense, paranormal, inspirational and Christian fiction, fantasy, memoir, and nonfiction.
Published work: For 14 Titles (fiction and nonfiction) please go to: www.susanwingate.com/books
Social Media: Website: www.susanwingate.com/blog; Facebook: www.facebook.com/authorsusanwingate; Twitter: susanwingate; Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/susan_wingate
Diane Naab, EPIC member
Biography: Diane Naab is an artist, former art gallery owner, world traveler, and published author, now living in the Seattle area.
Published work: Poetry and short stories published in four consecutive issues of the annual literary review, Inside Passages, in southeast Alaska.
Carol Sanford, EPIC member
Published work: Three award-winning non-fiction. The Responsible Business, The Responsible Entrepreneur with Wiley; The Regenerative Business, with Nicholas Brealey and soon to be released No More Feedback self-published. 3 Podcasts and Blogs. The Regenerative Business, The Responsible Capitalist, Business Second Opinion. Producer The Regenerative Summit. Faculty @ Universities in Europe and UW. Senior Fellow of Social Innovation at Babson College.
Social Media: Website: www.carolsanford.com; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carolsanford2; Twitter: carolsanford
Howard Tinsley, EPIC member
Biography: I am a retired university professor with extensive experience editing and publishing in psychological journals and books. I began to study creative writing in the early 1990 but until now have written only for personal pleasure. I have now begun two fiction novels I hope to publish when completed.
Published work: Tinsley, H. E. A., Lease, S. H., & Wiersma, N. S. G. (Eds.). (2016). Contemporary theory and practice in counseling and psychotherapy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Tinsley, H. E. A., & Lease, S. H. (Eds.). (2008). Encyclopedia of counseling, Volume 2: Personal counseling and mental health problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Tinsley, H. E. A., & Brown, S.D. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of applied multivariate statistics and mathematical modeling. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Social Media: I am on both Goodreads and LibraryThing but participate primarily on the latter. My LibraryThing profile can be found at: librarything.com/profile/Tatoosh
Curtis Colbert, EPIC member
Biography: Curt Colbert is the author of the Jake Rossiter & Miss Jenkins mystery series, set in Seattle in the 1940's. He also edited Seattle Noir for Akashic Books. In addition, along with Waverly Fitzgerald, he co-wrote The Barking Detective series under the pen name Waverly Curtis. Curt is a member of Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime.
Published work: Rat City; Sayonaraville; Queer Street; Seattle Noir; Dial C for Chihuahua; Chihuahua Confidential; The Big Chihuahua; The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice; The Silence of the Chihuahuas.
Hank Landau, EPIC member
Biography: Hank and his family have lived in Woodway, WA since 1973. He is the founder of Landau Associates, a regional engineering firm. Since his retirement he has been active in human rights, environmental organizations and bicycling and kayaking adventures.
Published work: The Misadventures of a Cross-Country Kayaker, a true story describing the authors Quixotic voyage from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
Chris Cantu, EPIC member
Biography: MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington and a longtime resident of Woodway. Along with a small cohort of fellow writers and photographers, I recently contributed to the creation of a book of poems and photos about our community. In 2016 I was awarded first place in the EPIC Adult Poetry contest, which was welcome inspiration to return to my passion for writing poetry. Thanks, EPIC!
Publications: Crab Creek Review, Atlanta Journal, California Quarterly, mid-America Poetry Review.
Donna Anderson, EPIC member
Biography: Donna Lee Anderson wrote her first book (three pages) when she was six years old. (It is unpublished.) She wrote stories for her children’s and student’s birthdays and holidays, and memories of her childhood living in a logging camp during WWII. She’s published anthology stories, three adult novels, one book of short stories, and one non-fiction book.
Published work: Books: I'm Just Curious, Project Emily, One Sentence Stories (Anthology 1/2/3), The Mighty Pen (Anthology), Potluck of Short Stories (Romance, Mystery, Poems, Memories).
Adrienne Fermoyle, EPIC member
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Courtenay Schurman, EPIC member
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Regina Sadono, EPIC member
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Gretchen Murphy, EPIC member
Biography: Gretchen is a native of Seattle and has lived with her family in Bothell since 1976. She worked in healthcare and education. She retired in 2017 as Director of the Master’s program in Health Informatics and Health Information Management at the University of Washington. Gretchen has enjoyed writing and contributing to textbooks over many years and is now interested in exploring new writing experiences.
Published work: Poetry: In the Blink of an Eye, Northwest Prime Time, April 2019. Textbooks: Electronic Health Records - Changing the Vision, 1999; Systems Analysis and Computer Applications in Health Information Management, 1983; Medical Records in Health Information, 1979.
Arthur Mickel, EPIC member
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Abha Sharma, EPIC member
Biography: Abha is a research scientist at the Department of Bioengineering at University of Washington. A self-taught lip reader, she was diagnosed with bi-lateral sensorineural hearing loss only in her early teenage years. Her passions include dancing, writing, painting, cooking and rediscovering ancient alternative nutritional therapies.
Published work: Scientific articles in various peer-reviewed journals and books. Puja with Mother in Hearing Life; January/February 2019; Hearingloss.org
Kimberly Christensen, EPIC member
Biography: Kimberly Christensen never strays far from the written word, whether she’s penning fictional worlds, engrossed in a book, or hand-lettering protest signs. She lives with her husband, children, dog, 40,000 honeybees and a mischievous house rabbit in Seattle.
Published work: "Still Waters," a short story available as part of the anthology 2047: Short Stories From Our Common Future or at Modern Literature Magazine https://www.modernliterature.org/2018/02/08/still-waters-by-kimberly-christensen/. "The Goodluck Camera," a short story available as part of the anthology Nothing Is As It Was. "Attracting Songbirds," a short story available as part of the anthology Resurrection Trust.
Dori Gillam, EPIC member
Biography: Dori Gillam is a Writer for 3rd Act Magazine and is on the Speaker’s Bureau for Humanities Washington. After caring for her parents for 7 years and working for AARP, Sound Generations and The Bayview retirement community, she speaks about resilience, positive aging and ageism.
Published work: Numerous articles for 3rd Act Magazine.
Alison (Ali) Eden Ersfeld, EPIC member
Biography: Ali is obsessed with Meade notebooks; they are her dearest friends. She has been traveling with them, filling them, and excavating her wounds in them since the 80's. When she's not writing, she's teaching creative writing, mythology, and English at Meadowdale High school, or she's instructing a yoga class at Bindi Yoga in Lynnwood. Ali also facilitates yoga and writing workshops, combining these two deeply reflective practices.
Published work: Unmasked Magazine; EPIC Group Writers 2018 Contest Winner - 2nd Place Poetry
Anna Dahland Kim, EPIC member
Biography: I have written textbooks used in high school English classes in South Korea for the past 25 years. I currently write memoir, personal essays, poetry and fiction.
Published work: High School English Conversation, Chunjae Publishing, South Korea, 2016. "Silence" (poem), Licton Springs Review, vol. 24, 2015.
Ceejae Devine, EPIC member
Donna Rudiger, EPIC member
Biography: Donna Rudiger began writing during her adolescent years growing up in Pennsylvania. She migrated to the Pacific Northwest in 1974 to study wildlife photography and wilderness living. She is an award-winning poet, a recent graduate of the Institute for Children’s Literature, an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Skagit Valley Writer’s League, the Seattle Storyteller’s Guild and the EPIC Group Writers of Edmonds. She is a retired technical writer and lives with the wildlife at her home in the woods of Arlington.
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