Your Redwood Board for 2011-2012

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Elected Officers:

• President, Linda Loveland Reid
• Vice President, Frances Cabello, Arlene Miller and Elaine Webster
  
• Secretary, Thonie Hevron
• Treasurer, Julie A. Winrich
  

Board Members:

• CWC Rep, Abby Lynn Bogomolny
• Membership Chair, Julie A. Winrich
• Publicity Chair, Osha Hayden
• Members at Large: Jeanne Jusaitis, Michelle Wing and Carylon Alexander
• Social Media/Blog Editor, Frances Cabello
• Newsletter Editor, Robin Moore
• 2012 Anthology Editor, Arlene Miller
• Past President, Karen Batchelor
  

Committee Chairs:

• Speaker Coordinator, Linda C. McCabe
• Web Editor, Lynn Millar
• Salon, Sher Garmard
  
• Odd Month Reading, Jeane Slone

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Elected Officers

 

President

Email: president@redwoodwriters.org

Linda Loveland Reid published her first novel Touch of Magenta in 2009. Her short stories also are published in anthologies 95% Naked and Vintage Voices: Cent’Anni. She is a graduate of Sonoma State University (cum laude in History and Art History), a theater director, and figurative oil painter. Professionally, she founded a family insurance business in Santa Rosa. Linda is winner of the 2008 Redwood Writers short fiction contest.

 

Vice President – Frances Cabello, Arlene Miller and Elaine Webster

Secretary

 Email: secretary@redwoodwriters.org

Thonie Hevron is a 35 year veteran of law enforcement in California recently retired from Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety, Thonie is now concentrating on a second career: writing about the life that has consumed a huge portion of her life. Her current project is a suspense novel and its sequel.

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Treasurer

Email: treasurer@redwoodwriters.org

Julie A. Winrich is a mystery/suspense/thriller novel writer as well as young adult, and Spanish/English children’s books. She loves to write, not for money, but because it completes her.  Writing is for her soul and entertainment. She’s published two short stories in children’s magazines, but then switched to adult novel writing. She has three complete novels and is working on two more.

Board Members

 

Representative to CWC Central Board

 

Email: cwcrepresentative@redwoodwriters.org

Abby Lynn Bogomolny is the editor of New to North America: Writing by U.S. Immigrants, Their Children and Grandchildren and the poetry collection People Who Do Not Exist. She teaches English full-time at Santa Rosa Junior College, juries the annual Burning Bush Poetry Prize and can be found frequently behind the lens of a camera.

Membership Chair

Email: membership@redwoodwriters.org

Julie A. Winrich is a mystery/suspense/thriller novel writer as well as young adult, and Spanish/English children’s books. She loves to write, not for money, but because it completes her.  Writing is for her soul and entertainment. She’s published two short stories in children’s magazines, but then switched to adult novel writing. She has three complete novels and working on two more.

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Publicity Chair

Email: publicity@redwoodwriters.org

Osha Belle Hayden, M.A. is a Creative Trainer, Coach and Speaker with a background in psychotherapy, health education, mediation, creativity, and over 20 years experience helping people to improve their lives. Osha was a regular presenter and occasional host on the TV Toastmasters Show in the Seattle area. She is Editor of the Redwood Writers monthly Member Spotlight column and is currently working on a book about empowering women.

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Social Media and Blog Editor

Frances Caballo is a member of Redwood Writers’ Publicity Team and posts updates about events and TW contests to our organization’s Facebook, LinnkedIn and Twitter accounts. Through her company, Act Communications, Frances helps nonprofits increase their visibility with social media, forge relationships with stakeholders and hilanthropists, and capitalize resources through board and staff trainings. Contact her at socialmedia@redwoodwriters.org

 

 

Newsletter Editor

Email: editor@redwoodwriters.org

Robin Moore has been writing ever since she was a kid, penning many letters to friends and family. She’s worked as a newspaper reporter and editor. For over twelve years she worked at elementary and middle schools helping kids with their reading and writing. She also worked as a school librarian. It’s always been her dream to write novels, so for the last seven years she’s participated in National Novel Writers Month. Currently she’s editing and revising two of her novels. One, a middle grades horse story, Addie’s Wish. The second is a YA novel, Lost in Shanghai. Redwood Branch of CWC has been a great help to her and she appreciates the many friends she’s made..

2012 Anthology Editor

Arlene Miller, M.A.,  is the author and publisher of The Best Little Grammar Book Ever! Her business, bigwords101, conducts grammar and business-writing workshops at local colleges and companies. Arlene’s background includes teaching English, newspaper reporting, technical writing, and freelance editing. She is currently planning another grammar book and is working on a novel. Arlene is also a member of  Bay Area Independent Publishers Association. Check out her website at www.bigwords101.com.

 

 

 

Ex Officio Past President

Karen Batchelor has been writing since the age of ten. She has published poetry, short stories, professional articles and eight textbooks. In 2006 her first novel Murder at Ocean View College was published. She is working on a sequel and has recently completed a collection of short stories. Karen was one of the judges for the Redwood Writers first annual short story contest and the Editor-in-Chief for the Vintage Voices anthology for five years in a row.,

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Members at Large

Jeanne Jusaitis, MA, writes for all ages. Her nearly out novel, Journey to Anderswelt, is written for middle grade children. Jeanne draws from her youthful memories of  northern California and her many years of teaching, consulting and traveling through Europe. She has served on several Redwood Writers committees, including volunteer coordinator for the annual conference and chaired “Agents Day” and “Spring Into Publication.” She is a member of SCBWI. Jeanne published “The Legend of Tilly” in Vintage Voices (2010) , “Liebestaum” in Wisdom has a Voice (2011), “Charlie and the Manure Business” in A Thousand Leaves (2011) and“Mystery Man” in Tiny Lights Online Journal. Email: mizitis@comcast.net.

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Michelle Wing is a writer and poet who spent much of her adult life in Seattle, Osaka, Kyoto and San Francisco, but now lives in the country in northern Sonoma County with her partner Sabrina, her faithful dog Ripley, and a houseful of other animals. She has been published previously in the Gay & Lesbian Review, Sinister Wisdom, and Sonoma County Women’s Voices, and is employed as the senior staff writer for the Calistoga Tribune in Napa Valley. Michelle uses her creative voice in her volunteer work at the Sonoma County YWCA, where she co-facilitates writing and art workshops for survivors of domestic violence. She can also be found online writing about life from a Zen perspective, at www.rrzbeginnersmind.blogspot.com.

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Carylon Alexander is the former Chairman of the Board of MRC Resources Group, Inc. An award-winning entrepreneur, she developed one of the most successful multi-million dollar consulting firms in Texas. She has served as a Commissioner of the Sonoma County Board on the Status of Women. Carylon is completing her first book, a biography on the life of a noted nineteenth-century female poet, abolitionists, public speaker, suffragette, and civil rights advocate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

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Committee Chairs

 

Speaker Coordinator

 

Email: speakercoord@redwoodwriters.org

Linda C. McCabee has been a member of Redwood Writers for over ten years and served on the board of directors as Membership Chair, Treasurer, Vice-President and President.  Her writing credits include: opinion-editorials in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and Los Angeles Times,  submission in several Vintage Voices, a master’s thesis from Sonoma State University and she is actively pursuing publication of an epic historical fantasy series based on the legends of Charlemagne.  She is an avid reader of blogs regarding the rapid evolution of the publishing industry and loves networking with other writers.  You can schmooze with her in person at the meetings or connect with her online through Facebook, her literary blog or her website .

 

Historian

Email: historian@redwoodwriters.org

Juanita J. Martin, Fairfield’s 1st Poet Laureate, 2010-2012, is an award-winning poet, freelance writer and performance artist. Her poetry appears in journals such as Blue Collar Review, Soma Literary Review and Rattlesnake Review. She’s an active member with Ina Coolbrith Circle, Redwood Writers and Marin Poetry Center. Juanita at 50 won the honor scroll award in the 2011 National Senior Poet Laureate competition. Juanita is the author of The Lighthouse Beckons. Read more about Martin at www.juanitapoetlaureate.blogspot.com or www.jmartinpoetwriter.com.

 

 

Web Editor

Email: webeditor@redwoodwriters.org

Lynn Millar is a writer of poems, short stories, plays and two floundering novels. Each week her blog, Walking in Sonoma County…mostly, describes a new place to walk. A resource for all walkers, it is geared for those with bad knees, bad habits and bad attitudes.  See her on the trail!

Please contact Lynn if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the Redwood website. Lynn can also assist if you have information or resources you would like posted. Lynn coordinates postings on the Redwood website with a team of volunteers.

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Salon

Emails: salon@redwoodwriters.org

Sher Garmard has been living the writer’s life—with gratitude and gusto—for the past twenty-two years. She stayed home to raise her daughter. As her child grew and flourished, so did her manuscript—page by page and year by year. Sher’s memoir, “Gifts From An Unseen Hand” is the engaging story of her plunge into a sacred journey. Sher also has a B.A. in Psychology from San Francisco State University. Now the Redwood Writers Salon Chair, she has been a member of Redwood Writers since November 2009.

 

Odd Month Reading

 

Email: omr@redwoodwriters.org

Jeane Slone has published the historical fiction She Flew Bombers From the Factories to the Bases During World War II. She is the daughter of parents who served in the Army during that time. Ms. Slone has flown in a 1918 World War I Curtiss Jenny (one of ten presently airborne).The Arts Council of Sonoma County sponsored her novel and provided a grant to gather six former WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots to speak at the Santa Rosa Vets Building about their experiences ferrying planes. There was standing room only.

Note: The wonderful Redwood officers, board members, and chairs of committee on this page are those who serve all year long. Other chairs serve for key events and activities and will appear on this website with their special functions from time to time. Our thanks to all!

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For a complete list of Officers and Volunteers, please click Board & Volunteers Dec 2011.

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