For decades Patrick O’Sullivan jotted notes on the back of bar napkins, envelopes and sandwich wrappers – whatever was handy. He’d squirrel them away in a drawer or in a file folder and as the collection swelled so did the need to tell his story. In the winter of 2010, bored and unfulfilled with his […]
Donna Lisle Burton (11/14/29 – 11/20/20) grew up beside the Ohio River in eastern Ohio, in an area of coal mines and steel mills, now mostly gone. For most of her life she lived in the South, where she worked as a special education teacher. She spent more than a decade in Montgomery and Tuskegee,
British-born Martin Keeley’s varied careers took him to East Africa, the Far East, Alaska, and elsewhere around the world before he settled in western Canada and, after his marriage, in Point Roberts, WA, on the Puget Sound just south of Vancouver, BC. He has been a photo-journalist, theater performer and director, and international environmental activist, and
A. D. Reed spent more than 25 years writing ad copy, marketing materials, fiction, and nonfiction as he worked for large corporations, small retailers, nonprofit organizations, and monthly newspapers, while also editing the work of scores of other writers. His first book project was as a proofreader for Simon & Schuster’s Webster’s NewWorld Dictionary, Third
Sarah-Ann Smith’s passion for Asia led her to earn a degree in international relations and Asian studies and to a career in the U.S. diplomatic corps. Her tours of duty took her to Taiwan to study Mandarin Chinese and to the American Consulate in Hong Kong as well as within the Foggy Bottom headquarters of
Michael Hopping lives near Asheville, North Carolina. In a former life he was a practicing psychiatrist and medical director for a community mental health center. In search of less industrialized approaches to coping with today’s world, he eventually left the field. His short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Spoiled Ink, The Great Smokies
Dr. Joseph R. Haun earned his doctorate in Plant Physiology from the University of Maryland and spent his professional career in corporate and government research and as a professor at Clemson University. He is best known for the widely used Haun scale, which quantifies daily plant growth. During Haun’s nine decades of life, America and