Te n M a i n e W rit e rs
Mary Lou Bagley
is a writer, actress (SAG-AFTRA),
and mixed-media artist living in South Berwick, Maine. Her
fiction has appeared as a performance piece, Collage: zany
bits & some serious stuff ; as an audio CD, Out of the Dark: A
Collection of Short Stories ; and in print, “Turn About” in Twin
Farms Anthology, edited by Titia Bozuwa and Lysa James.
She is currently working on a novel, Otherwise, exploring
poetry-making as spiritual practice, and maintaining her
motivational blog, Time to Write.
mlbwritingblog.blogspot.com
maryloubagley.com
Nancy L. Brown received her M.F.A. from the University
of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program in 2008. Her
nonfiction has appeared in Work Literary Magazine. She
is the circulation services director at the Norway Memorial
Library and lives in Bethel where she writes a weekly column
for the local newspaper, The Bethel Citizen .
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Meredith Nash Fossell
lives in an old cape in the
middle of a big field in Alna, Maine. She wrote her first poem
at age six. Fossell’s first job was as a Peace Corps volunteer
in Thailand. She then taught children with emotional and
learning problems and went on to work as an evaluator and
administrator in a variety of health, education, and social
service programs in California, Florida, and Maine. She now
spends her time writing, gardening, volunteering, babysitting
her grandchildren, and watching the world indiscriminately.
Claire Guyton, the Maine Arts Commission’s 2012 Literary
Fellow, is a freelance writer, editor, and writing coach in
Lewiston, Maine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming
in Crazyhorse, Hunger Mountain , The Journal for the
Compressed Creative Arts, River Styx, and elsewhere. On
April 30, 2013, Guyton completed a personal challenge to write
a short story every day for a year. She wrote the three pieces
selected for Summer Stories as part of that project. Her
blog tracking ongoing writing travails is at dailyshorty.com.
Guyton earned her M.F.A. at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Kathryn Hall , rather stereotypically, lives over a bookstore
on Islesboro, Maine, and teaches high school English and social
studies at the small island school. Yes, she has a cat. She values
rural community, the outdoors, language, laughter. In keeping
with the trends of mid-coast Maine, she enjoys gardening,
contra-dancing, and playing ultimate frisbee. She writes when
she can, which is less often than she’d like, and enjoys drafting
into spiral-bound notebooks while seated on the rocky shore.
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David Karraker’s
short fiction has appeared in The
South Carolina Review, Puerto Del Sol , and River Oak
Review. He co-authored a musical play, The Magnolia Club,
which opened the maiden season of Chicago’s Victory Gardens
Theater. His novel, Running in Place, was published in 2003.
Karraker was a Research Associate at the Muskie School of
Public Service at the University of Southern Maine for sixteen
years. In that capacity, and subsequently, he conducted
program evaluation studies and strategic planning exercises
for several arts organizations and philanthropies, including
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Catherine J. S. Lee
is best known as an internationallypublished haiku poet and haiga artist, but Lee has also been
writing fiction for most of her life. Her stories have been
published in, among others, Cezanne’s Carrot , Crossing
Rivers into Twilight, juked , Poor Mojo’s Almanack, Prick of
the Spindle, Slow Trains, and The Binnacle. One of her stories,
“Cross-Country,” was nominated for a 2008 Million Writers
Award presented by storySouth, an online literary magazine.
She lives and writes in Eastport, Maine, where she teaches in
the special education department at the local high school. She
enjoys photography and gardening with perennials and roses.
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Laura Levenson is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Bangor, Maine.
She either writes as a way to balance her work life, or she works as a way to
balance her writing life. She loves both equally, but so far her publication history
isn’t extensive enough for her to quit her day job.
John B. Nichols, Jr.
grew up in Maine and received a
B.A. in English from the University of Maine. He’s retired from
the United States Air Force and the Maine Department of
Transportation and is a consumer mediation volunteer with
the Maine Attorney General’s Office. He lives on a lake where
he keeps a curmudgeon’s eye on boaters and shorefront
dwellers while serving on his lake association’s board of
directors. Nichols is also tweaking drafts of a thriller about a
clueless but clever American stationed in Italy who recovers
masterpieces missing after World War II and invites disaster
when he tries to market them.
Anna Noyes
is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’
Workshop and a recipient of the 2013 Henfield Prize for Fiction.
In Iowa, she worked as editor of the Iowa Short Fiction Prize,
taught creative writing, and completed a collection of short
stories. She is thrilled to be back in Sorrento, Maine, where
she is writing and working towards becoming a certified birth
doula. Her first published story appeared in summer 2013 in
the fiction issue of VICE Magazine.
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