Member Websites

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• Gwynneth Anderson - is a freelance finance and technical writer who researches historic cemeteries in her free time. She writes a blog called Beyond The Ghosts, that includes musings on such topics as preservation, funky tombstone carvings and personal interviews. In 2009, Anderson was awarded a 4Culture Heritage Special Projects Grant and an Allied Arts Foundation Heritage Preservation Grant to produce a photo-documentary on Seattle’s pioneer cemeteries. However, for those who enjoy the great outdoors and pets more than historic cemeteries, her general photography can be found at StudioG Photos.

• Noah Ashenhurst - Noah Ashenhurst is the author of COMFORT FOOD: A NOVEL (Old Meadow Publishers, LLC), winner of the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award--Best Regional Fiction (West-Pacific). An excerpt and more information is available on his website. He grew up in Boulder, Colorado and attended Western Washington University, the University of Colorado, and earned his MFA from Rainier Writing Workshop (PLU). In his free time he enjoys being with his family and writing poetry and short stories. He is currently working on his second novel.

• Patricia K. Batta, a Michigan native, has been writing since was ten years old but only began publishing after retirement.  She attended Northwestern Michigan Community College in Traverse City, received her B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, and finished at Oberlin College in Ohio with a Master’s in Teaching.  After teaching elementary grades in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Pat moved to Seattle, Washington, where she lived for 21 years.  Her Marge Christensen Mystery Series is set in the Bellevue, Washington, area.  In addition to teaching, she has worked as an editorial assistant, a document librarian, and in records management.  After retiring and being widowed, she moved back to Traverse City, where in addition to writing she is active in her church and in the Love In the Name of Christ (INC) organization.  By the time she made that move Pat had drafted two mystery novels and was working on a third.  The first of the Marge Christensen Mystery Series, What Did You Do Before Dying?  was published in 2008.  Why Did You Die In the Park?, May 2009, is the second, and the third will arrive in 2010.  You can find information about Pat and her books at her web page, patriciabatta.com, or her blog, patriciabatta.blogspot.com.  \

• Joe Beernink - I came to the United States from Canada in 1996, and have lived in (or near) Toronto, Detroit, Denver and Seattle. I currently make my home in the Pacific Northwest, with my wife and two young children. I earn my living as an Application Architect for a small software consulting firm in Seattle. Writing has always been my hobby, but it has really picked up steam in the last year, thanks to the support of my wife, Lisa, and a long rail commute that enables me to write at least an hour a day.

  When not working, writing or playing with my kids, I like to garden, read and watch football.

   

  Some of my favorite authors include Bernard Cornwell, SM Stirling, Stephen King, Dan Simmons and John Grisham.

• Julie Bergman – is the author of Deadly Vengeance, a novel of suspense set against the backdrop of the steel industry. Her extensive background in technical writing and research adds scientific elements to powerful characters and sharp-edge suspense. Julie resides in the Seattle area with her husband, Lou. They have three grown sons who also live in the area, making the empty nest bearable. She is now a full-time author working on Death Within – the assassination of high-ranking state official and interlacing web of murder sweeping Seattle’s homeless community. Author quote: “At the age of 9, I read my first adult novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.  That book and so many others opened up new worlds for me.  My hobbies are few but, as long as I have a book in hand, I can claim to be a woman of unlimited interests.”

• Pam Binder - Pam is the president of PNWA.  She found her agent at the 1999 PNWA Summer Conference and in January 2000 The Inscription was published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon and Schuster.  Pocket Books has published five of Pam's novels, including the New York Times best selling anthology, A Season In The Highlands.  Pam is an advisory board member for the Writer's Program at the University of Washington and an instructor in the University's Popular Fiction extension program.

• Jade Blackwater - writes copy by day as the owner of the Brainripples creative consultancy.  By night, Jade is a prolific poet and fiction writer who encourages others to pursue their own, unique voice. Jade’s poetry has been published in The Monongahela Review. She can be found blogging independently at Arboreality, Brainripples, and AppleJade where she writes about ecology and conservation, art and creativity, and sustainability and gardening, respectively.  She is a Co-Manager for The Festival of the Trees blog carnival, a monthly online celebration of trees and forests.  Jade is a member of Willamette Writers, and she serves on the Board at Pennwriters, Inc., a nonprofit organization supporting writers at all levels. When Jade isn’t writing she can usually be found getting dirty in the garden or hiking the local forests.
  www.jadeleoneblackwater.com

• Edward Clark - is a freelance journalist, and fiction writer. He has just published "The National Tree Brigade," <www.thenationaltreebrigade.com  >a  satire of Reagan-era politics and environmental policies that is partially set in the Olympic Peninsula, and whose main character is from the Seattle area. It's a dark satire/comedy, that is laced with strange plot twists through the shadowy terrain ruled by Kurt Vonnegut/ Gore Vidal meets the Coen Brothers. Clark is now at work rewriting his second novel, "Legacy," a literary novel whose overarching theme is about the danger secrets—family, political and other—can have psychologically. It also mines the terrain of whether an Indiana Judge let off a town for a lynching in 1930. He attended Walla Walla College in Eastern Washington, where he first was inspired to write fiction under the inspiration of Dr. Roberta J. Moore. Clark, 58, has been a nature fanatic all his life, starting with salmon fishing in Puget Sound off an island near Port Townsend as a young child. Nature is an important theme in all his writing.

• Robin Cohn is the author of Judith: Wise Woman of Bethulia, a historical novel based on the apocryphal story of the beautiful young woman who cut off the head of the Assyrian general to save her people.  She invites you to visit her website where you can find out more about her novel and herself. There you will discover all sorts of goodies-- an excerpt from the novel, a brief synopsis, bibliography, chronology, maps and more. She writes a weekly newsletter which explores a different woman of the Bible using feminist scholarship.

• Elizabeth Dost - Elizabeth Dost is the translator and editor of Home Alone in America, a remarkable collection of correspondence which tells the story of a young boy sent alone to America from Berlin shortly after the end of World War II.  The edited writings that comprise this book were written over a nine-year period of separation from 1946 to 1955 and include reciprocal letters exchanged by the young immigrant in the United States and his mother and brother in Berlin.  When Mrs. Dost discovered these letters she was excited by their riveting story and recognized their value to students as a unique primary source that could bring history to life.  Home Alone in America was published in 2005 by Heritage Books in Westminster, Maryland.  Mrs. Dost is a former newspaper writer and editor.

 

• Christine Echeverria Bender - Christine Echeverria Bender has been awarded a project grant by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Idaho Commission on the Arts to assist in the research of her next historical novel, which will tell the story of the first Basque whalers to set foot in North America.  Preliminary research indicates that the Basques may have arrived as early as 1372, and Christine will explore this possibility and other recent finds when she travels this summer to Red Bay, Labrador to visit the site where four ancient but well-preserved whaling galleons have been found just offshore.  She will also journey to Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick to study right whales, the same whales hunted in small boats before the dawn of the Renaissance.  For more information about Ms. Bender and her writing, please visit her website.

• Sharon Lynn Fisher is a freelance copywriter/editor and an award-winning science-fiction romance writer. Her first novel, Ghost Planet, was named a finalist for the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award in 2009 and 2010. Sharon is represented by Robin Rue of Writers House.  

• Milton Ghivizzani - Read about Milton's debut mystery novel, Employee of the Year. A corrupt police detective is killed making love to a married woman in her home. Many people have reasons to celebrate the detective's death. But the woman's husband is accused and contacts his old friend, attorney Joe Bari, to defend him. A seeming slam-dunk case takes on labyrinthine dimensions that lead to murder and conspiracy, and forces Joe into the ultimate test of friendship and personal ethics. Bari enlists the aid of his brilliant partner and his ace investigator-- then Bari pulls out all the stops.

 

• Theodore ("Ted") D. Henkle is a retired USAF TACP (Tactical Air Control Party) member and is now working for Washington State Emergency Management as an Emergency Operations Officer. When he's not at his day (night & weekend) job, he spends his free time working out, playing wargames (table-top strategy games), and writing.  Ted utilizes his writing skills to promote the wargaming hobby and to improve the public's knowledge of military history.  His articles have appeared in Miniature Wargames (in the UK) and the Historical Miniature Gamer (USA) magazines and local gaming newsletters.  In 2008 he launched his gaming & writing blog Stern RakeStudio, http://sternrakestudio.blogspot.com/  which is described as "a blog about wargaming, writing and other wackiness."  Ted started making movies of his table-top adventures and posting them on You Tube.

 

• Emily Hill -  has just completed her first novel, Jenkins: A Biography, a project compelled by seventeen years of genealogy research.  Ms. Hill’s gift of embellished storytelling derives, she believes, from her Welsh ancestors and an overwhelming curiosity about the world. 

  Jenkins: A Biography, and her second project, The Tailors of Baltimore are works of historical fiction; heavily researched from archives, historical newspapers, scrapbooks and family accounts of historical events.

  Formerly a feature writer for the corporate publication of a Fortune 500 company; and for many years a representative to the news media for higher ed, Ms. Hill is now retired and writes fulltime.

  Updates on Ms. Hill's projects can be found on her website:www.emilyhillwriter.com/index.html

• William Hood – his newest book, The Winding Road, will be available this summer from Llumina Press.  It is a true story about the life of a Korean neighbor of mine -- his boyhood in old Korea, his experiences in the Korean War, from refugee to spy to POW, and his life afterward as a fireman before coming to this country. A little spinout from the book has brought about a different kind of publishing, as I began producing an ancient, Korean family game, the game of Yut Nori, which I am selling myself and through Amazon.

 

• David D. Horowitz founded and manages Rose Alley Press. He earned bachelor's degrees in philosophy and English from the University of Washington and a master's degree in English from Vanderbilt University. In 2007 he edited and published Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range, an anthology of contemporary poetry of the Pacific Northwest. His own most recent poetry collections, all from Rose Alley Press, are Wildfire, Candleflame; Resin from the Rain; and Streetlamp, Treetop, Star. Many of his poems are published in fine literary journals, such as Candelabrum and The Lyric, and he gives frequent readings in and around Seattle, where he lives. David won the 2005 PoetsWest Achievement Award. Rose Alley Press was founded in 1995 by Seattle poet David D. Horowitz. David still manages the company, which primarily publishes books featuring rhymed metrical poetry and an annually updated booklet about writing and publishing. David has published work by some of the Puget Sound area's finest poets, including William Dunlop, Victoria Ford, Donald Kentop, Douglas Schuder, Michael Spence, and Joannie Kervran Stangeland. In 2007 David published Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range, which features poetry by twenty-six Northwest poets. He also sponsors numerous readings around the Puget Sound region and exhibits Rose Alley Press books at book fairs around North America. For more information, visit www.rosealleypress.com.

 

• Steven Houchin - is the author of two unpublished novels. The first, entitled Linear Descent, is a suspense novel set in 2005 with chapter flashbacks to the 1800's. The second, entitled Double Fire, won the 2007 Pacific Northwest Writers Association's Zola Award in the Mystery/Thriller category. It is an historical suspense novel set in the 1800's. Steven is also editor of Weekly Review - a newsletter for the Lake Forest Park Writers Workshop critique group. When not writing, Steven works as a freelance software developer and is the owner of Forest Park Lab, a Seattle-area software consulting company.