Monadnock Writers' Group Members

There are currently about fifty Monadnock Writers. Feel free to visit their websites and contact them (for writing-related matters only, please!). If you are a member and would like to add your introduction to this page, please send your information to info@monadnockwriters.org.

Amanda Borozinski is a reporter for the Keene Sentinel newspaper. Amanda earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University L.A. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines, and books including The Oklahoma Review, Guideposts Magazine, The Ultimate Dog Lover and the Boston Literary Magazine.

Amanda was a recipient of a Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholarship, a winner of Guideposts Magazine's “Tell Us a Story Contest,” and she was an invited speaker at Binghamton University's annual national graduate Creative Writing Conference.

This past summer, Amanda spent three weeks at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH working on her first creative nonfiction book To Make Our Joy Complete.

You can visit Amanda’s blog at: www.amandaborozinski.blogspot.com

Laura Bloch Bourque

Laura has come to love writing in her second life, in Peterborough, NH. The life it followed, where she was a graphic designer and NYC nightclub owner (Wetlands Preserve 1989-2001), is the topic of an emerging memoir.

Since earning a BA in Journalism in '04, Laura has published features in local newspapers and international magazines while working on the ever-present BOOK. Laura's favorite thing to research and write is a profile – she never met someone without a good story to tell, but through the short-lived New England growing season, you'll most likely find her with her hands in the dirt.

Email lauraqb@myfairpoint.net

Kathy Fortin

Kathy received a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College (MALS ’07). During her studies, she concentrated on creative writing: nonfiction narrative, personal essay and oral history. Her graduate thesis was an oral history of the MacDowell Colony, a one hundred year old artists’ residence colony located in Peterborough New Hampshire.

While writing and pursuing publication of her work, Kathy continues in her long time career in the legal field, Currently, she is working on a book: part memoir, biography of her Italian grandmother and oral history of her mother, which explores the origins and influence of her Italian heritage.

Pat Henderson

Pat's writing for work in the corporate environment morphed into something more serious at the encouragement of colleagues. Task manuals and interoffice newsletters then took a backseat to exploring avenues for publication.

Her short essay "Observations from the Saddle" was published in the 2007 fall issue of Biker Ally, a motorcycle magazine for women. More recently Pat’s story "ICEolation" was selected and published along with other contributors in Black Ice, stories and photos about the December 2008 ice storm that devastated most of New Hampshire.

Pat works at her craft daily and maintains an on-line blog Pat Henderson’s Life and Motorcycle Travels Blog at http://patnwilton.blogspot.com with a focus on motorcycling, her other passion. Other projects include dabbling in fiction, with finishing touches just completed on her whodunit Operation Joint Endeavor. You can write Pat at pahenderson@tds.net.

Lucy Suitor Holt

Lucy writes short stories in suspense and dark fantasy/horror, and poetry in a range of genres. She is currently working on her first novel. She has published poetry in Concrete Wolf poetry journal, short stories in Whispers From the Shattered Forum by Undaunted Press (issue #7) and online at Ad Hoc Monadnock Online. In 2004, she released Occasional Shadows - 7 stories of suspense and survival, a full-length audio CD recorded in her own voice.

J. Kates

J. Kates is a poet, literary translator and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press, a non-profit press that focuses on contemporary works in translation from Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry in 1984 and a Translation Project Fellowship in 2006, as well as an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts in 1995. He is the translator of The Score of the Game by Tatiana Shcherbina, Say Thank You by Mikhail Aizenberg, When a Poet Sees a Chestnut Tree and Secret Wars by Jean-Pierre Rosnay, and Corinthian Copper by Regina Derieva; the translation editor of Contemporary Russian Poetry, and the editor of In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era. A former president of the American Literary Translators Association, he is also the co-translator of three books of Latin American poetry, and has a chapbook of his own poems, Mappemonde, published by the Oyster River Press.

Leigh Marthe

Leigh lives in Westmoreland, NH with her composer husband, Larry Siegel, and her three amazing children, Clair, Jonah, and Julian. Leigh's first chapbook of poetry, This Exact Life , was published spring 2008 by Wind in the Timothy Press. Leigh completed her doctoral studies in the summer of 2009 in Higher Educational Leadership. Her dissertation focused on the topic of the lives and careers of female college and university presidents in New England. You can find some of Leigh's most current writing at her blog at http://leigh-marthe.blogspot.com/ and can contact her at leigh_marthe2000@yahoo.com.

Patricia Martin

Pat Martin lives in Rindge, NH with her husband, Danny, and two cats, PK and Spike. Originally from Malden, MA, Pat has a diverse background that includes serving in the Air Force, a career as an electrical engineer, and another career as a nurse. Her favorite stress reliever and reviver is dancing. She studies tap, ballet, modern, and Irish dance. She's the proud mom of Liese Chavez, an emerging Colorado artist.

Pat has always loved writing and has kept a journal for years. She joined MWG almost 10 years ago when she first moved to the area from Groton, MA. After years of being a self-described "writer-groupie," Pat has started a blog that deals with the issues she faces as she moves toward 60. You can read about the "Dancing Fool" at http://patmartin2894.blogspot.com/.

Rodger Martin

Rodger is the Managing Editor of The Worcester Review. Read samples of his work at The Monadnock School of Poetry.
Rodger Martin
Goosebrook
54 Sargent Camp Rd.
Harrisville, NH 03450.
Note new e-mail: rodgerwriter@netzero.net.

Tina Rapp

Tina lives in Sharon with her daughter Emily. By day, she writes about film and television for www.avid.com. In her spare time, she works on essays, short stories, and a novel that she threatens to complete some day. Her work has appeared in National Business Employment Weekly; Yankee Magazine's Vinegar, Duct Tape, Milk Jugs, & More; Ad Hoc Monadnock; and other literary and business journals. She has also been an essayist on New Hampshire Public Radio.

Ray Regan

Ray is retired for the time being from the world of paid work and lives in Milford, NH. He writes short stories and is working on a novel. He plays the guitar in a somewhat idiosyncratic style and enjoys mathematics and physics, particularly relativity theory. Because much of what the latter predicts is counter-intuitive, it's a nice source of story ideas.

Ann Robinson

At Ann Robinson's website, www.annsrobinson.com, you can:
1) become acquainted with her professional background and career objectives,
2) purchase her short story collection, Ordinary Perils,
3) learn about her lecture, "A Fine High Gleefulness: The Art of Shirley Jackson,"
4) enjoy a plot summary of her comic novel, Witch,
5) read samples of her work,
6) listen to her interview on New Hampshire Public Radio,
7) respond with comments
... or just have fun browsing the site!
Ann's e-mail: annrob@ne.rr.com.

The Importance of Bone" - poems by Becky Dennison Sakellariou Becky Dennison Sakellariou

Becky was born and raised in New England and has lived in Greece for most of her adult life. Much of her poetry demonstrates a creative tension between her two "worlds." She has published poems in the Beloit Poetry Journal, White Pelican Review, Common Ground Review, and several anthologies. She is now hoping to spend at least 3-4 months in New Hampshire every year.

"The Importance of Bone" won first prize in the Blue Light Press Chapbook Contest of 2005. The press is a cooperative press which runs out of San Fransisco and Iowa. Blue Light published the book in early 2006. The book can be purchased for $8.00 plus postage from Becky herself at becky@hol.gr.

"Becky Sakellariou's work shimmers not just with the light of Greece, where she has spent her adult years, but with the radiance words emit when miraculously placed together. Wise, quiet, mysterious and real, her poems honor both language and life." — Nancy J. Wiegel, Editor, The White Pelican Review

Linda J. Thomas

Linda lives in view of the Pack Monadnock mountains with her husband Bob. She is a freelance writer and editor in the corporate world. Her essays and poetry have been published in The Occasional Moose, Postcard Memoirs, and Ad Hoc Monadnock Online. Linda currently serves as the Treasurer and Webmaster for the Monadnock Writers' Group.

Roberta Visser

Roberta is a contributing writer for the Monadnock Living section of the daily Keene Sentinel, leader of creative writing workshops for students ages 17-87, a student in an advanced poetry workshop with Patricia Fargnoli, and has served as program chair for the Monadnock Writers' Group.