Carole Borges, author of Disciplining the Devils Country has published poems in Poetry, Kalliope, Crosscurrents. Her non-fiction credits include Rudder Magazine, Vegetarian Digest and Review, and Horsemans Journal. A series of her non-fiction essays was featured in the North Shore Sunday magazine. As a freelance journalist, her work has been seen in the Lynn Item, the Dorchester Community News, the West Side Gazette, and the Enlightener newspaper in Knoxville.

Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Carole was also the recipient of Massachusetts Artists Foundation award. Her unique Writing Your Family Memories and Elements of Fiction workshops have been presented in a variety of settings. She has been a presenter at the East Coast Writing Conference and the Florida Scholastic Press Associations Workshop for High School Seniors. Carole is currently available as a reader, speaker or workshop leader. She has experience working with small and large groups and writers at all levels.

Categories: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing for Young People, Teaching Writing, K-12 School Programs, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, The Writing Process, Publishing & Marketing.

E-mail: caroleann1@yahoo.com

Catherine E. Crawley holds a Ph.D. in Science Communication from the University of Tennessee, and has experience in teaching, journalism, and public relations. Additionally, she has been a workplace consultant for the Gallup Organization and consulted for Fortune 500 companies in the United States and Singapore. She has taught journalism and English at the middle school, high school, and college-level. She began her career as a newspaper reporter at the Star-News in Pasadena, California, and covered the White House and Congress for trade publications in Washington, D.C. She is a published academic author and has published creative fiction in KWG's Literary Lunch anthology.

Dr. Crawley currently writes grants, conducts research, and writes and edits for private clients of her business, Crawley Communications & Research.

Categories: Professional & Technical Writing; Grammar for Grownups; Teaching Writing & the Writing Process; Journalism; K-12 School Programs; Fiction; Nonfiction

Email: ccrawley@crawleycommunications.com

  Among his 17 books, Alex Gabbard is a 2-time Book of the Year recipient with hundreds of magazine and newspaper features illustrated by thousands of his photos on topics of travel, non-fiction and fiction. Gaspee, his latest work of historical fiction, asks, When did Americas Revolution begin." Checkmate is a modern intrigue set in Oak Ridge, and Blood of the Rose, is a Freedom Book of the Month selection. Return to Thunder Road is an Amazon.com 5-star book, and Adventures of an H-Bomb Mechanic, a memoir of life in America after the Manhattan Project, is an accounting by a Top Boomer during the Cold War era.

Categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Teaching Writing, 9-12 School Programs, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, Regional, The Writing Process.

Alexs web site is: www.alexgabbard.com.

E-mail: GPPress@att.net

  Judy DiGregorio was recently nominated by the Tennessee Arts Commission for inclusion in SouthernArtistry.com, an adjudicated online artist registry that spotlights outstanding artists who live and work in the South. A published author of more than 100 columns, essays, and humorous poems, Judys work has appeared in The Writer, Army-Navy Times, New Millennium Writings, Literary Lunch, Migrants and Stowaways, Muscadine Lines: a Southern Anthology, The Church Musician, CC Motorcycle NewsMagazine, and other publications. She also writes regular columns for Eva Mag and Senior Living.

Judy is a YWCA Woman of Distinction in the Arts who has won numerous awards including first place for humorous nonfiction at the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference, first place for humorous essay at the Virginia Highlands Festival, Abingdon, VA, and second place for a humorous one-act play at the Lost State Writers Conference. She is a frequent workshop presenter who has spoken at the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference, the Appalachian Writers Association Conference, and the Alabama Writers Conclave. She will teach a noncredit course on humor writing for the University of Tennessee in 2007.

Categories: Nonfiction, The Writing Process, Humor, Publishing and Marketing Your Writing, K-12 School Programs (in Oak Ridge TN only).

E-mail: jdigregorio60@comcast.net

Doris Gove has written six books for children and three hiking guides. Her most recent book, The Smokies Yukky Book: Weird, Creepy, and Completely Gross Stuff That Really, Really Happens Here is written for 3rd-5th-graders and is biologically accurate while being satisfyingly disgusting.

She has also written a gentler book on tree identification for early elementary students, biographies of a snake and a salamander, and a book about collecting animals to observe them and then returning them to their homes.

Her school programs can be fitted into current class curriculum, and she often brings examples of subjects of her books.

Categories: Nonfiction, Writing for Young People, K-12 School Programs.

E-mail: DorisGove@aol.com

  Brian Griffin is a fiction writer, poet and essayist whose work has been widely published in journals such as Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, New Millenium Writings, and many others. He received the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction for his book Sparkman in the Sky and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction which the New York Times Book Review called "beyond promising." A former Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee Libraries, he has taught literature and creative writing at U.T., Pellissippi State, Webb Middle School, and the University of Virginia. He has also taught at U.T.'s Young Writers' Institute. He holds an M.F.A in Creative Writing from UVA and is co-founder and current director of The Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, a national competition co-sponsored by the Knoxville Writers' Guild and the University of Tennessee Press.

Brian Griffin says, "In addition to reading and discussing my own fiction or my own poetry in front of adults, I am always happy to teach creative writing to children of any age. I can conduct workshops for K-12 teachers and am experienced at hosting poetry readings or "slams" for Middle School and High School youth."

Categories: Poetry, Fiction, Writing for Young People, Teaching Writing, The Writing Process, K-12 School Programs.

E-mail: taylorprize@yahoo.com

Marilyn Kallet is the author of 12 books, including Circe, After Hours and The Art of College Teaching: 28 Takes, co-edited with April Morgan, UT Press, both in 2005.

Kallet is the poetry editor for New Millennium Writings and is a professor in the English Department of UT, where she has taught for 25 years.

The Knoxville YWCA named her Outstanding Woman in the Arts in 2002, and she was inducted into the East Tennessee Literary Hall of Fame in Poetry in 2005. Dr. Kallet received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in Rutgers, and the Diplome Superieure from the Sorbonne.

Categories: Poetry, Songwriting & Performance Art, K-12 School Programs.

E-mail: kallet@utk.edu

 Joe Rector writes a weekly column for the Knoxville News Sentinel and The Focus. His works have also appeared in the Knoxville Writers' Guild anthology Low Impact, and he has published works in Chicken Soup for the Mother and Son Soul, Chicken Soup for the New Mother's Soul, and Chicken Soup for the Menopause Soul. Additionally, his works have appeared in Knoxville Magazine and Grandparent Magazine.

After a thirty year career of teaching English in high school, Rector works with his new web site, Teacher Tales, where classroom teachers share their stories, as well as continuing as a freelance writer.

Web sites: www.teachertales.net and www.thecommonisspectacular.com

Categories: Teaching Writing in K-12, Memoirs & Journaling, Grammar for Grownups, Journalism, Editing, Regional Writing.

E-mail: joerector@comcast.net

Pamela Schoenewaldt teaches writing at the University of Tennessee and was Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee Libraries. Her short fiction is set in the U.S. and Italy where she lived for 10 years. Her work has appeared in Belletrist Review, Bianco su Nero (Italy), Carve, Cascando (U.K.), Crescent Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Literal Latté, Mediphors, Mondogreco, New Letters, New Millennium Writing, Literary Lunch, New Letters, Paris Transcontinental, Pinehurst Journal, Potomac Review, Square Lake, The Sun, Womens’ Words and Writers Place.

She has won the Chekhov Prize, Leslie Garrett, Tennessee Writers, and Literal Lattés Fiction Awards. Besides teaching creative writing to school and community audiences, Pamela has an extensive list of corporate and non-profit clients for print, video, speech and grant-writing, and editing. She provides engaging, informative lunch & learn, dinner talks, workshops and seminars for corporate, community and professional audiences.

Categories: Fiction, Teaching Writing, K-12 School Programs, Grammar for Grownups, Writing as a career, Business and Professional & Technical writing.

E-mail: p.schoene@comcast.net

Pam Strickland is a widely published essayist and journalist for both regional and national publications writing on politics, social justice, religion, health and family. The high school yearbook she advised was nationally recognized. Currently adjunct teaching at Roane State Community College, while freelance writing, she is co- author of the upper elementary fiction book, Under One Flag: A Year at Rohwer by August House Publishing, which is a 2006 Historic Preservation Book Prize nominee. She has also done editing for August House and others.

Categories: Nonfiction, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, Regional, Teaching Writing & the Writing Process, K-12 School Programs.

E-mail: pamstrickland@mac.com

Ed Sullivan is the author of many publications, including three books: The Holocaust in Literature for Youth: A Guide and Resource Book, Reaching Reluctant Young Adult Readers: A Handbook for Librarians and Teachers; and The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb, a nonfiction book for young people. Ed has a B.A. and M.A. in English, and M.S. in Library Science. Ed has taught high school English, and at three universities.

Ed has extensive experience speaking to audiences of all ages on a variety of subjects.

Categories: Nonfiction, Teaching Writing, K-12 School Programs, Writing for Young People.

To learn more about Ed and his work, visit http://www.sully-writer.com.

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Marianne Worthington is on the faculty at University of the Cumberlands and the Kentucky Governors School for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Kalliope, The Louisville Review, Kaleidoscope, Natural Bridge, Wind, and other literary magazines. Her recently published poetry chapbook is entitled Larger Bodies Than Mine. She won the Sue Ellen Hudson Excellence In Writing Award in 2003 and was a 2005 finalist in the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest. Mariannes reviews, essays, and other non-fiction have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Appalachian Journal, Journal of Appalachian Studies, Mossy Creek Reader, and Journal of Kentucky Studies, Louisville Magazine, Now & Then, and Arts Across Kentucky, Wind. Her prose and poetry are widely anthologized.

She has presented workshops and lectures for the Knoxville Writers Guild, Alabama Writers Conclave, New Opportunity School for Women, Montessori Schools in Knoxville, Kentucky Governors School for the Arts, Laurel County (KY) Public Library, Bellarmine University, Lincoln Memorial University, and Eastern Kentucky University. In Kentucky, she lives with her husband and two fabulously lazy dogs.

Categories: Poetry, Nonfiction, Journalism, Regional, K-12 School Programs.

E-mail: marianneworthington@hotmail.com