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Gloria Kamen
from Hartland, Vermont |
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Toni
L. P. Kelner
from Massachusetts |
In looking over her bibliograghy, Toni L.P. Kelner realized that
she's been publishing mysteries for over a dozen years. She's
written eight books in the Laura Fleming series, set in a small
North Carolina mill town, and just completed
Without Mercy, the first in a new series about
a Massachusetts-based freelance entertainment reporter. She's also
published some sixteen mystery short stories with settings ranging
from the circus, a lingerie store, a trucking warehouse, and a
traveling carnival, and just completed co–editing
Many Bloody Returns, a
vampire anthology. Along the way she's been nominated for an Agatha,
an Anthony, a Macavity, and a RT BOOKclub Reviewer's Choice
award, and won a RT BOOKclub Career Achievement Award. She
and her husband, fellow writer Stephen P. Kelner, Jr., live in
Malden, MA with their two daughters and uncounted books.
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Michelle Kennedy
from Vermont |
Michelle Kennedy is the mother of five children and the author of
many parenting books in addition to "Without
a Net: Middle Class and
Homeless (With Kids) in America." "Without
a Net" received the Elle Readers Award and was also a
Border's Original Voices selection for 2005. Michelle's work has
been featured in The New York Times, Family Circle, Redbook, The
Christian Science Monitor and many other publications. She has also
been a contributor to Morning Edition on NPR.
She speaks often to organizations about
the Different Faces of Homelessness and Poverty and is a frequent
guest on radio stations across the country.
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Benjamin Kilham
from New Hampshire |
Benjamin Kilham is a naturalist who lives in the
woodlands of New Hampshire. He studies and rehabilitates wild black
bears. Steve Paulson spent a day with him as he visited a mother
bear and two cubs that he's keeping an eye on. Kilham is the author
(with Ed Gray) of "Among the Bears: Raising Orphan Cubs in the
Wild." (Picture is of Kilham next to one of his cages. The bear cubs
live here before they're turned loose in the woods. Photo by Steve
Paulson) |
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Nancy Lagomarsino
from New Hampshire |
My husband David and I have lived in The Upper Valley
since 1974 and have raised two sons here.
Light from an Eclipse is a memoir
covering the years of my dad's Alzheimer's disease. It means a lot
to me to connect with others who have been affected in one way or
another by Alzheimer's. Rather than a practical manual,
Light from an Eclipse
explores spiritual and emotional issues surrounding apparent loss of
self and death of a loved one.
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Alan Lelchuk
from New Hampshire |
| Alan Lelchuk is the author of six novels,
including American
Mischief, Miriam at Thirty-Four, Brooklyn Boy,
and
Playing the Game. He has also
co-edited an anthology of Hebrew fiction in
English translation, entitled "Eight
Great Hebrew Short Novels." He
is a co-founder of Steerforth Press, a literary
publishing house (in Vermont), where he serves
as an editor.
He received his BA from Brooklyn College
(1960,World Literature), and his graduate
degrees from Stanfod Univ in English
(Ph.D.,1965). He has taught at Brandeis, Amherst
College, and since 1985 at Dartmouth. (He spent
a Fulbright year at Haifa University,1986-87, as
writer in residence.) He has also been a
Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.
For Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, he has
taught a course in contemporary Jewish fiction.
Since WWII, Jewish writers have not only come
into their own, but have dominated the landscape
of world fiction, as the course tries to
demonstrate. Readings include Isaac Babel,
I.B.Singer, Ida Fink, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth,
Grace Paley, Teodor Borowski, A.B.Yehoshua, Amos
Oz, Bernard Malamud, Nadine Gordimer, and
others.
During the 1999 - 2000 academic year,
Professor Lelchuk was the Otto Salgo Chair in
American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in
Budapest.
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Julie MacShane
from New Hampshire |
Julie MacShane grew up
writing in Canton, MA, and is currently a magazine editor living in
southern New Hampshire with her husband and Sesame Street monster
family. She received her masters degree in writing and literature
from Rivier College, Nashua, NH. Her two books tell the story of
new firefighter Bette Maguire, who in
Soot and Sweat on Flesh must battle prejudice to
prove herself to her team, and then in
Torch battle an arsonist who is trying to
make her quit the job she loves. |
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Madeleine Marchewka
from New Hampshire |
Madeleine Marchewka has lived in Lebanon, New
Hampshire since 1939. She came as the daughter of a woodsman who
cleared the mountains of fallen timber after the hurricane of 1938.
She and her husband have raised four children and she worked in the
field of public accounting until 1995.
Though she has taken writing courses for a long
time, she never published any of her work until she wrote
Welfare As We Knew It. This
first book is a memoir which was published in the fall of 2002.
Madeleine is just completing a second book -
Yes Sister, No
Sister.– a
novel scheduled to appear in local bookstores in October of
2006. |
Archer Mayor
from Vermont |
Archer Mayor is the 2004 winner of the New
England Booksellers Association/NEBA award for best fiction—the
first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. He is
the author of the highly acclaimed, Vermont-based series featuring
detective Joe Gunther,
which the Chicago Tribune describes as “the best police procedurals
being written in America.” In addition, Mayor is a death
investigator for Vermont’s Chief Medical Examiner, a part-time
police officer for the Bellows Falls Police Department, a volunteer
firefighter, and the EMT captain of his local rescue squad.
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Jim Merkel
from New Hampshire |
Jim Merkel is the author of Radical
Simplicity and is the Sustainability Coordinator at
Dartmouth College. Originally a military engineer and arms trader,
Jim changed his life at the time of the Exxon Valdez disaster,
quitting his job and devoting himself to environmental service and
world peace. He downsized his life and lived on $5,000 a year for 16
years. Jim founded the Global Living Project (GLP) and initiated the
GLP Summer Institute where teams of researchers attempted to live on
an equitable portion of the biosphere.
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Susan Milord
from Vermont |
I have been writing books for children since the late 1980's. With a
BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (1977), I had worked as a
graphic designer for a number of years, and was looking for a way to
work from my home while raising a son. My first book was published
in 1989, and was followed by many others. I currently live in
Norwich, Vermont, where I continue writing and illustrating books
from my home.
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