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

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

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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.