Bertamae Anger-Ives is a clergy widow, teacher and organist who has traveled to eighteen countries. She enjoys writing humor and recently won second prize in the Information and Travel category at St. David’s Christian Writers Conference.
Larry Beahan was born in Buffalo in 1930, graduated from medical school and went off to study psychiatry in NYC and to serve in the Air Force in Japan. He and his wife Lyn have lived in Amherst since 1963 and have two sons and four grandchildren. He’s for an environmentally sound world and loves to sail, canoe, ski and write.
Joan Glendinning’s interest in writing for publication was triggered by a Creative Writing course taught by a local newspaper columnist which she signed up for only because it was the only English course available in the right time slot. Pipsqueak the Hungry Mouse began as a homework assignment for that course, based on a character from bedtime stories made up by Aunt Mel. Joan also writes essays, meditations and spiritual songs. She and her husband David now live in Edinboro, PA. They have been members of Northside Writers Group since 1996.
Ed Hulse is a graduate of the University of Buffalo, the United States Marine Corps and the College of Hard Knocks. An observer of the Human Condition, Ed has written short stories and a novel, Brother’s Keeper, about people trying to solve the puzzle of existence. He continues to write and work on the puzzle at his home in Tonawanda, NY, where he resides with his wife and “first-line” editor, Phyllis.
Linda A. Lavid wrangles a writing life amid the detritus of making a living and keeping a home that is, on rare occasions, totally clean. Besides being consumed, beguiled and utterly frustrated with the craft of writing, she also marvels how a family can survive on frozen dinners and the occasional stalk of broccoli. To read more of her work, search 'linda a lavid' at www.google.com. There her ersatz, free, and shamelessly self-promoting webpages with links to THE SOUTHERN CROSS REVIEW, PLOTS WITH GUNS, WILMINGTON BLUES, NEFARIOUS - Tales OF Mystery, and OVER COFFEE can be found.
Rock Termini spends about half his time consulting to industry, half doing pro bono work with conservation organizations at the local, regional, state and national level, and the third half rebuilding a 200 year old Post and Beam country farmhouse for his partner. In between, almost every day, he writes. He likes humor, nostalgia, public issue essays, and now and then fiction.
Raymond Thomas was born in Guyana. He rides his bike around western NY and has worked in industry for twenty years. He is married and has one son. He lives in Pendleton, New York.
Cynthia Willerth has been writing short stories, plays, editing newsletters, for years. She loves fantasy and Science Fiction. She likes to draw, works in oils and pastels. She’s still working on that first novel. It’s getting there.