About Our Members

Denny Caldwell has been a laborer, factory worker, soldier, pilot, mechanic, firefighter, researcher, historian, and anti-war activist.  Born and raised in southeastern Michigan, he finally arrived in New England to his heart’s home when Eastern Airlines sent him to Boston in 1987. He has been a technical aviation writer, and is currently working on memoirs, aviation history, historical fiction, and poetry. Denny lives in Hancock, New Hampshire with his wife Deborah and their two cats.

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Ann B. Day writes poetry and is a photojournalist and nature columnist for several papers and magazines. She has been writing a weekly column titled “The Nature of Things” for The Valley Reporter in The Mad River Valley since 1971. The Valley Reporter published a book of Day’s selected Nature Articles in 2014. Her poems, stories and photographs have appeared in Time Magazine, Burlington Free Press, Vermont Life, and many anthologies and collections. She belongs to the Poetry Societies of Vermont and New Hampshire and is on the Board of the Monadnock Writers’ Group. Day operated a farm in Mad River Valley for 60 years until she moved to RiverMead in Peterborough in 2013, where she serves on the RiverMeadia Committee. She has an exhibition of her photographs in the RiverMead Gallery.

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William Doreski has published three critical studies and several collections of poetry. His poetry, essays, fiction, and reviews have appeared in many print and online journals. He has taught writing and literature at Emerson, Goddard, Boston University, and Keene State College. His most recent books are A Black River, A Dark Fall and Train to Providence, a collaboration with photographer Rodger Kingston. His blog is at williamdoreski.blogspot.com.

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Elizabeth Goodhue
www.thetruthaboutdownsyndrome.com
www.expatriateinkualalumpur.com

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Bob Hanson grew up on the coast of Maine, attended engineering school, and then worked in various technical jobs in bearing design and manufacturing for 45+ years. He and his wife have lived in the Monadnock Region for most of the last 40 years. They enjoy being near the ocean and have brought up two daughters, who are now in their 30’s. During his employment, he wrote many technical reports on subjects such as new technology, failure analyses, nondestructive testing, manufacturing issues, and vendor quality issues. Bob is now retired and very active in several local volunteer activities. He wants to develop his writing skills into other areas, such as short story and fiction.

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Tori Haring-Smith has been a professor, theatre director and dramaturge, and a college president. She has written twelve books and lots of articles—all in service to her profession(s). Now she is retired and writing the kind of books she wants to write—creative non-fiction. Her current project is a history of Washington & Jefferson College, and future projects include a study of the mothers who tried to reclaim their grievously wounded sons after Pearl Harbor, and stories of growing up German in the New York city area during World War II. If she gets really brave, she may try some short stories or a novel as well. She lives in Peterborough with her husband and lots of cats (all rescues).

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Linda Dini Jenkins is the author of Journey of a Returning Christian: Writing into God, Up at the Villa: Travels with my Husband and, most recently, Becoming Italian: Chapter and Verse from an Italian American Girl. Her poetry has been published in Voices in Italian Americana, Ovunque Siamo, Poeti italo-americani e italo-canadesi, Vermont Voices I & II, and South Florida Poetry Review, among others. She currently lives in Salem, Massachusetts where she is Executive Director of the Pickering House, a 17th century house museum. But she and her husband will be moving into their new home in Peterborough early in 2024. They are avid italophiles and get away to their (tiny) apartments in Sulmona and Lecce, Italy as much as they can. Visit her website at www.travelitalythewriteway.com.

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J. Kates is a minor poet, a literary translator and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press. He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation and a Käpylä Translation Prize. He has published three chapbooks of his own poems: Mappemonde (Oyster River Press) Metes and Bounds (Accents Publishing) and The Old Testament (Cold Hub Press) and a full book, The Briar Patch (Hobblebush Books). He is the translator of The Score of the Game and An Offshoot of Sense (Tatiana Shcherbina); Say Thank You and Level with Us (Mikhail Aizenberg); When a Poet Sees a Chestnut Tree, Secret Wars, and I Have Invented Nothing (Jean-Pierre Rosnay); Corinthian Copper (Regina Derieva); Live by Fire (Aleksey Porvin); Thirty-nine Rooms (Nikolai Baitov); Psalms (Genrikh Sapgir); Muddy River (Sergey Stratanovsky) and Paper-thin Skin (Aigerim Tazhi). He is 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 six books of Latin American and Spanish poetry.

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Linda Tiernan Kepner was born in Chase Mills, NY, and now lives in Bennington, NH. She writes genre fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and romance).  Linda has published 15 books and her stories have been included in six anthologies. Her most recent novel (2022) is The House of the Future. Her web site is http://www.lindatkepner.com/.

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Carl Mabbs-Zeno focuses on writing novels although he is sometimes distracted by the urge to complete a shorter piece. He retired in 2014 from 35 years of service as an economist with the Federal Government, most of which was in foreign assistance. He has extensive experience working overseas and often sets his writings in foreign locales. His publishing record so far includes only products of his federal work, but he is searching for an agent to help get his novels out.

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Mary Marchese holds a degree in English Literature and has worked as a feature writer for a newspaper, a technical writer at IBM, and an editor for a community newsletter. She has published a historical mystery What Really Happened to Steve Nathan and a children's book Moxie Cinnamon Creampuff, The Nose Knows. You can learn more about the books at her website, marymarchese.com. Mary moved to New Hampshire in 2013 and recently moved to Harrisville. She is currently on the board of the Monadnock Writers' Group and has contributed short stories to Smoky Quartz.

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Rodger Martin’s third poetry volume, The Battlefield Guide, uses locations on battlefields of the Civil War to reflect upon America today. Small Press Review selected The Blue Moon Series, as its bi-monthly pick of the year.  A translation of his work, On The Monadnock, appeared in China in 2006.  He received an Appalachia poetry award, a N.H. Council on the Arts Fiction Fellowship, and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Humanities.  In 2012 he was chosen as poet to represent the U.S. at Hangzhou, China’s annual international cultural festival. He serves as co-editor for The Granite state Poetry Series and teaches journalism at Keene State College. Visit his website at http://www.rodgerwriter.com/

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Martha Freymann Miser fell in love with the Monadnock region when she was a member of
the Board of Trustees for Antioch University New England. In May of 2022, she and her
husband, Andy, moved from Boston to Jaffrey where they now have a lovely view of the
mountain. Over her career, Martha held numerous leadership positions in both the public and
private sectors, including Global Head of Leadership and Change for ING in the Netherlands. In
2006, she founded a coaching and consulting company, Aduro Consulting,
www.aduroconsulting.net. Martha writes a series called, Exploring Leadership: A Critique of
Business as Usual (https://aduroconsulting.net/blog/), which draws insights from her years on the
front lines of leadership and organizational change. Her recent publications include an article in
the UK Journal, Coaching Perspectives and the Foreword to the 2023 book, Safe to Great, by
Skip Bowman. Martha has three children, located in Hartford, Austin, and Amsterdam, NL, and
6 grandsons.

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G. Sherman H. Morrison is a freelance writer and editor as well as an emerging author and playwright who enjoys the thriving arts culture in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire, where he has called Keene home since 1996. As a writer-for-hire, Sherman writes on any and all topics with conviction and authority thanks to his advanced research skills. Sherman’s first play, CUFFED, was published by Brooklyn Publishers and was also a Top Three Finalist for Best Original Play, community division, in the 2007 New Hampshire Theatre Awards. When not hunched over his laptop banging out copy for clients, Sherman can be found performing on stage with many of the region’s theatre groups. His most important ongoing project to date, however, is parenting his daughter, Willow.

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Nancy Roberts O’Neill began a 20-year career with Eastern Airlines at a young age.  After which, she retired to start a family and became a fulltime mom.  After raising her children, she fulfilled her desire to acquire a college degree, graduating from Keene State College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.  Aside from being active with her family and grandchildren, she enjoys acrylic painting and occasionally gathers with a small group of artist friends for coffee and critique.  She also enjoys writing.  Over the past two years, while purging possessions to simplify her life, she discovered years’ worth of writings stashed away in notebooks and folders, mostly poems, some short stories and haiku.  Up until now, life has been so busy that It took her by surprise to realize that she had been writing all her adult life.  Most recently, never published, she has written six short stories and a small collection of poems. She lives with her husband, Brian, in Harrisville, NH.

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Eric Poor is a retired award-winning journalist who was a reporter at the Monadnock Ledger newspaper for 17 years. He’s an outdoor columnist, a freelance writer, an aspiring novelist and an occasional poet. He’s also the public information officer and photographer for the Rindge Fire Department. Visit his website at www.ericpoor.com.

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Tina Rapp lives in Peterborough with her daughter Emily. She is a Web content producer, project manager, and marketing writer for technology companies. In her spare time, she works on essays, short stories, and a novel that she threatens to complete someday. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal (Student Edition), National Business Employment Weekly, Executive Recruiter News, Consultants News, Post, Indie Slate, Digital Content Producer, TV Technology, Millimeter and ProSoundWeb. She was a contributing writer to Yankee Magazine’s Vinegar, Duct Tape, Milk Jugs, and More and has published creative work in Ad Hoc Monadnock, Monadnock Ledger magazine, and Concrete Wolf.  She has also been an essayist on New Hampshire Public Radio.

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Elaine Reardon is a poet and herbalist. Her first chapbook, The Heart is a Nursery for Hope, won first honors from Flutter Press in 2016. Her second chapbook, Look Behind You, was published by Flutter Press in late 2019. Most recently, Elaine’s poetry and essays have been published by Pensive Journal, The Wild Word, Prospectus Literary, and Wilda Morris’s Blogspot. Elaine’s website is elainereardon.wordpress.com.

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Stephen Seraichick is a homegrown New Hampshire country boy that luckily discovered poetry! Growing up in rural New Hampshire with a veterinarian father, Dr. Joe, as well as, living but a stone’s throw from the Chase dairy farm, Stephen spent his youth raising and caring for animals, pitching hay, milking cows, driving tractors, wandering the fields and woods near his home, and reading about a life that he thought only existed in books.

He discovered poetry in the early sixties first, through the music of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon and Joni Mitchell, etc. then, through the written words of Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsburg, Edgar Lee Masters, and many others. Sometime in that distant past Stephen decided to try his own hand at writing poetry and with the exception of a couple of dry spells it has been a fifty-year ride.

He asked Laura to take that ride with him in 1984 and she fortunately said, yes! Together they made a life with each other and conceived two wonderful children, Ian and Lydia. Today, Stephen’s favorite poet is Ellen Bass! This is Stephen in a nutshell!

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S.M. Stevens began writing fiction during back-to-back health crises: a shattered pelvis and ovarian cancer. Her novels include Horseshoes and Hand Grenades published by TouchPoint Press in 2019 (Mainstream Fiction), Shannon’s Odyssey (Middle Grade), and the Bit Players series (Young Adult) for musical theater-loving tweens and teens. She has held executive positions at Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations including the Franklin Park Zoo and the USS Constitution Museum. Her articles and columns have been published in the Boston Globe, Bay State Parent, Bay State Realtor, Strategic Communications Magazine and Guitar & Bass Magazine. These days, when not writing fiction, she markets solar energy. Stevens has a bachelor’s in English from Cornell University, and studied at University College at the University of London. Originally from Gorham, Maine, she lives in Washington, N.H. www.AuthorSMStevens.com.  Her blog can be found at https://authorsmstevens.com/blog/.

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Linda J. Thomas is a freelance writer, editor, and designer who lives in New Hampshire. She graduated from the Creative Writing Program at UCLA. Her writing has been published in Postcard Memoirs, Monadnock Ledger magazine, Ad Hoc Monadnock Online, and The Henniker Review. She was a poetry editor and contributing photographer for Shadow and Light—A Literary Anthology on Memory, and co-founder of the online literary journal Smoky Quartz. Linda currently produces the online magazine New England Memories. Her work in progress also includes picture books and poetry for children.

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Jesseca P. Timmons is a former teacher, a storyteller, a blogger and a lifelong writer of humor. Her essay Wisdom and Teeth was one of twenty winners of the inaugural Nickie’s Prize for Humor Writing at the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop at the University of Dayton in 2020. She has been published by Chic Mom, the Boston Sunday Globe, New England Memories, is a contributor to the Monadnock Ledger -Transcript, and had her photographs published in the fall 2020 edition of Smoky Quartz. Jesseca blogs at http://jesstimm.blogspot.com/ and is currently working on several novels. Jesseca and her family live in Greenfield.

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Roberta Visser 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.

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Donna Marie Vuilleumier is a happy NH transplant from MA in 2019. She is a long time
ordained UCC minister, a workshop leader, a beginning blogger, and author of the forthcoming
Pilgrim Press book, ‘Always With You: The Comfort of Spirituality for Those Living in the World
of Dementia.’ Her passion for this topic grew over 16 years of hospice chaplaincy and leading
caregiver support groups. Her website is www.DonnaVuilleumier.com. Donna is currently
writing about two very different topics in two different genres to see which will emerge as her
next book and which will follow. A mother of two grown children, and Nonna to a grandson, she
still sometimes wonders what she will be when she grows up. She does her best creative thinking
while walking in the woods, kayaking, or snowshoeing.

 

Louise Werden has lived in the Monadnock region since the winter of 1987 when she moved from New York City to raise a family. She has been a designer for Poggenpohl in New York, a Nurse’s Aide, a Guardian ad Litem, and an Airbnb host. She holds degrees from Parsons School of Design and Antioch New England graduate school. Now that her family is grown, Louise enjoys time for creative expression as well as supporting other writers and artists. She is an editor of Smoky Quartz.