There are twenty-four regular writers. Each week, a group of eight will have work posted. They will all cover the same topic.  Nancy and Ger will provide comments and we hope other writers and readers will as well. The writers:

Writing Group One 

• Anna 
• Cissy: Christine “Cissy” White is a stay-at-home feminist, free-lance writer and sea glass fanatic. She has been published in newspapers and small magazines. She blogs about adoption, healing and life at www.seaglassgirl.wordpress.com She is the founder of a writing group which started 6 years ago - after a Nancy writing workshop. 
• Dede: DeDe Lahman is a writer and restaurateur living in Manhattan. She is a certified yoga teacher, a mother, and a stepmother too.
• Devorah: Devorah Medwin has her Masters Degree in Playwriting from  the Actors Studio in New York City.  Devorah was News Director for MVY radio,  served  as the Martha’s Vineyard stringer and reporter for the Cape & Islands NPR station and         developed her own interview show for Plum Television. Her  essays and plays have been seen and  heard on stage and on NPR. Devorah now works  on a project in Arizona that melds together theatre and healing. 
• Grace: Grace Jeffers is a writer and decorative arts historian living in NYC.  She is currently finishing work on an encyclopedia (of sorts) about design materials, and is hoping to move her writing into a more personal place. Having recently lost her father to cancer, Grace is taking this opportunity to write a project dedicated to living and loving with terminal illness
• Ger
• Kim: a slightly left-of-center, liberal feminist, freelance writer, cleverly disguised as a sweats and t-shirt small town mom. www.kimmarkesich.com
• Terrie: I am a passionate writer and activist, an emotional and fully-committed wife to Bill and mother to two vivid and lovely daughters, Emerald and Autumn.  I am a cowgirl, a road-tripper, and a military brat. I am a glad resident of the country, a mountaineer by birth and a beach girl at heart.  I am a seeking, doubting, soulful and growing believer in God’s grace.
• Toni: Toni Lansbury: I’ve been married for 20 years and a mom of a willful 10-year old daughter and a girl crazy 13-year old son.  I work as a freelance advertising copywriter. I would kill for: a vanilla latte, a great movie, a deep sweat, an undiscovered flea market, a private beach, my friends and family, hydrangeas, fabulous jeans, a miracle wrinkle cream and above all else, a good laugh.

Writing Group Two

• Christelle: Christelle L. Del Prete is a native New Englander and a student of Lancaster University’s eLearning Creative Writing PhD program. She earned a Masters of Arts in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Bridgewater State College in 2006. She currently teaches freshman composition as a Visiting/Part-Time Lecturer at Bridgewater State College and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In addition to writing and teaching, she volunteers for Coast to Coast Dachshund Rescue (http://www.c2cdr.org) and enjoys bicycling and yoga.
• Joy: Joy Mazzola is a spazzy Sagittarius in a restless search for a life of constant laughter, ease, and enlightenment. She dislikes office birthday parties and overuse of acronyms. She loves to travel and has been known to eat food that she’s dropped on the floor. She writes far better than she speaks, and therefore must pen anything she wishes to be understood. Less frequently, she writes for money, sanity, or at Nancy’s behest.
• Julie H
• Karen: “Karen Kenney is a writer, certified yoga teacher, TV show host and owner of Quest Yoga Studio in Chichester, NH. She’s a member of the New Hampshire Writer’s Project, presents workshops on the relationship between Yoga & Writing Process and is currently at work on a memoir.” Her website is: http://www.questyoga.com/
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• Nancy (see about Nancy page for bio) 
• Suzy
• Stal: Stal Herz is a writer living in Harlem, NYC. By day, he writes for an interactive advertising agency as well as crafting educational cartoons for Pokemon, USA.  A Native of California, he moved out east
  to discover the world that Frank O’Hara and KRS ONE described to him in their respective lyrics. Early in the A.M., on the red brick tenement streets of St. Nicholas Pace, if you look up to the 4th floor at the end of the block, you can see Stal banging away on his
  Underwood typewriter trying to fit novels into his life before jumping on the A Train that shoots him into the real world.
• Kathy M: Seeker, writer, teacher, poet, almost empty-nester amd a militant voice for joy. More of her writing is posted at: http://www.kaleidoscopereflections.wordpress.com 

Writing Group Three

• Anne-Marie: Anne-Marie Eddy lives on the island of Martha’s Vineyard where she and her husband are parents to 3 young, spirited daughters.  She writes when she can sneak it in and has brazenly taken Nancy’s workshop over 8 times in hopes of one day becoming more serious about her writing hobby.
• Barb:  a tax accountant knee deep in mid life crisis.  I live in southern NJ with my spouse and am slowly creeping my way toward a career change.  I am hanging on to the crazy dream that I can do what I love for a living and still make money. In my spare time I support two industries, chocolate and a dojang in a continuing struggle to break even.
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• Joel Fried: Brooklyn born, New York City raised, graduated from Long Island University, stepped out of the door and got drafted. Once out of the service, worked as a cab driver, door-to-door book salesmen, mailroom clerk, clothing salesmen and the manager of the budget bag department at Alexander’s.  Finally landing a job in educational media development as a photographer, writer, and producer. Interviewing artists such as Salvatore Dali, Richard Estes,Norman Rockwell, and others as well as developing other educational and vocational training programs. Then, fascinated with invention of Apple II, started a software company, focusing on creative approaches to reading and writing for young children. I have been a serial entrepreneur for the past thirty years. My current manifestation is author of the of the author-published book, Bursts.
• Judy H.: Judith Hannan lives in New York City but leaves whenever she can.  She has three children–one in college and two in high school.  They have provided Judith with her richest material for writing.  Judith also guides homeless single mothers and at-risk teens in writing about their lives.  She enjoys the company of her two dogs, one of whom is trained in pet assisted therapy.
• Julie G: Julie Glick, grateful mother of three most lovable felines, may be a Medical Sales Rep by day and a Healthy Chocolate Entrepreneur by night, but in her heart of hearts she is a writer.  Nothing compares to being in that divine flow … and nothing brings out that flow like Nancy’s Writing From the Heart Show!
• Mary Agnes: Mary Agnes is an administrative assistant at a university in the Boston area.  She’s single and middle-aged.  She has performed stand-up comedy
  at the open-mic level, loves taking writing classes (especially Nancy’s!), is a bit psychic, and eternally wishes she were more organized.
• Rajka:   I am Croatian female, living in the US 45 years, paying taxes and not having American citizenship.  My dear writers be aware!. FBI could not read my fingerprints (I took them 4 times!)  I got the police clearance, yet MANY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES are doing background checks on me.  For more than 3 years?  / I’ve felt at HOME between two worlds for a long time. It really is not that bad.  I retired early from the International Monetary Fund to go back to school at the age of 40. Once I got the Master’s Degree in  Psychology, I felt free to do what I like best.  Since then my favorite pastime is writing.  I never published anything — and probably never will — but I will keep on writing and re-writing, loving each agonizing moment./ I have one brilliant American son and 4 little American Einsteins for grandchildren./

      I like being  Pisces because of their mercurial nature.