President: Barbara Truax
President@cwcmarinwriters.com

Barbara Truax is a founding member of Marin branch and past president of the state-wide California Writers Club. During her state presidency, the California Writers Club accepted a California Legislative Resolution, declaring the third week of October as California Writers Week.  She has published short stories and articles and after a three-year hiatus, has returned to writing. She credits her seventh grade teacher Sister Emily for her ability to still diagram sentences. Bad writing, typos, and grammatical errors drive her crazy.

Vice President/ Programs: Tanya Egan Gibson
Programs@cwcmarinwriters.com

Tanya Egan Gibsonis the author of How to Buy a Love of Reading (Dutton, May 2009), a novel about nouveau riche parents who try to cure their teenage daughter's hatred of books by commissioning a custom-written novel for her and dubbing themselves the Medicis of Long Island. Hailed as "a fresh and funny new voice in the world of fiction" by Mark Childress (Crazy in Alabama and One Mississippi), Tanya is an alumna of Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a founding member of CWC Marin.

Secretary: Kara Levine
Secretary@cwcmarinwriters.com

Treasurer - Susan Keller
Treasurer@cwcmarinwriters.com

I am currently in the grinding marketing phase of getting my first novel, Mothers of Beautiful Daughters, published. However, unlike many people, I love job interviews, writing cover letters, and even driving Highway 5. I also love contests and am presently in fiction and poetry competitions. My poetry has won first place in poetry slams. My travel story, “The Drunken Camel Ride,” was published in the anthology, Vintage Voices, Cent’ Anni: May You Live 100 Years. I continue to believe in the process.

Membership Chair -
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Member-at-Large - Peg Alford Pursell
Member@cwcmarinwriters.com

Peg Alford Pursell is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher whose work has been a short-list finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award and twice received the The (S.C.) State Fiction Award. She started the creative writing program at the Charleston School of the Arts, and now teaches at the College of Marin and Book Passage, and in private workshops. Peg curates the Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series in Sausalito. For more information see her website http://northbaywriters.wordpress.com

Publicity - Jon Shearer
Publicity@cwcmarinwriters.com

Jon J. Shearer is a recent arrival to the Bay Area and lives in Sonoma. In addition to his love of writing, he is a professional musician.

Jon writes darkly humorous adult fiction. His bookshelves include works by: William Kotzwinkle, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Charles Bukowski, Albert Camus, Harold Pinter, Dennis Potter, John Dos Passos, P.G. Wodehouse, Sinclair Lewis, Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, and Miguel de Cervantes.

He has finished three novels, a two-act drama with musical vignettes, and a collection of short stories.

www.JonJShearerWriter.com

Newsletter Editor - Barbara Moehring
Newsletter@cwcmarinwriters.com

Barbara Moehring enjoyed a successful career developing and producing training materials for the Military and business in varied media: print, video, and computer. While living in Egypt, she published PLACES, a full color, glossy tourist magazine.
Today, she writes poetry and fiction for adults and children. She has completed a novel for teens and is working on her second.

Her short story, The Portrait, was published in Vintage Voices, the 2010 Anthology of Redwood Writers.

Director, Library Project - Roberto Haro
LibraryProject@cwcmarinwriters.com

Roberto Haro, a retired professor/university executive, taught at California, Maryland and New York universities. He received the B.A., and two graduate degrees from UC, Berkeley. His doctorate is in Higher Education. Haro wrote five scholarly monographs, and 80+ articles/chapters. He’s an expert on Latinos.

Haro writes under the pen name Roberto de Haro, and has published seven novels. His new novel, Murder at the Villa Museum, will be published in late 2010.

Director - Joan Steidinger
Director@cwcmarinwriters.com

Dr. Joan Steidinger is a licensed psychologist who has been in private practice for 25 years.  She has published both academically and in sports magazines.  One of her primary areas of interest is on sports psychology.  She has worked with recreational, amateur and pro athletes in a wide variety of sports, including running, cycling, swimming, football, basketball, and golf.   Her column, "Dr. Joan's Sports Psych Talk," appears on moremarin.com and sfgate.com. www.powerzonephd.com

Director - Mary Jane Essex

Mary Jane Essex is past President of the Marin Branch of CWC: Mary Jane taught English at University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, and Thomas More College, her alma mater. She has retired from teaching to work with developmentally disabled adults and to write. Having grown up in Ohio and lived most of her life in California, Mary Jane feels she has a foot on each side of the country. Sometimes that can be a bit of a stretch.

Her literary models are Jane Austen, Barbara Pym, Agatha Christie, Susan Conant, Susan Wittig Albert, William Shakespeare, Sarah Graves, Geoffrey Chaucer, and David Lodge, not necessarily in that order. She is still working on getting her first book published, but lives in hope.

CWC Central Board Representative - Barbara Truax
CWCrep@cwcmarinwriters.com

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