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Barbara
Apoian has had a home in Delaware County since 1962 and became a member of WIM
when she moved to Roxbury permanently in 1994. As and active member of WIM since 1996, Barbara is
a Board Director and serves as Chair of the Teacher's Committee. .
She was a travel writer and coordinator in London, Paris and New York as well as a public
relations/publicity writer in the field of Architecture and Interior Design in New York City.
Barbara studied Creative Fiction Writing at NYU and for the past five
years has taught the Critics Corner Class. She is also the co-editor of the WIM
publications, "In Our Own Words" and "Out of Our Minds".
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Frank Canavan with wife Joyce St.Geroge, own and operate Pact Training in New Kingston, NY. Pact Training programs address how people learn as well as what they learn. For over twenty years, Pact has combined the use of drama and facilitation techniques to create a unique living laboratory for effective human dynamics training. Pact programs bridge the gap between training and work performance by combining interactive exercises with state-of-the-art course material, giving participants powerful insights into the impact they make in the workplace when critical issues arise. One of the areas in which Pact Training specializes is preventing workplace violence. The Pact Training team was honored with the 2003 Corporate Training Team of the Year award from the Hudson-Mohawk Chapter of ASTD.
Frank has been active in local theatre productions, including writing and acting in the Ten Minute Plays written in WIM workshops as well as reading at The Bright Hill Press in Treadwell, NY.
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Lynn
Domina is the
author of a collection of poetry, Corporal Works, and a reference book,
Understanding A Raisin in the Sun. Her recent work appears in Quarterly
West, Poetry Northwest, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, The Marlboro
Review, Heliotrope, and several other periodicals.
Ms. Domina gave a
seminar on poetry during WIM's Poetry in Motion last year. Her talk was
very well attended and recieved and WIM is very happy to have her back
to teach a full workshop.
She currently lives and teaches in Delhi, New York in the western Catskills.
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Ev Ellsworth
is a remarkable "journalist" herself, and through her sensitivity
and understanding, writers can expect an encouraging environment in her
workshop. Ev taught English in Northern New Jjersey for many years. She
served as the Director of WIM for two years and remains active with the
organization. Ev has lived in Roxbury for 12 years and enjoys her life immensely,
especially being with her great-grandchildren. She leads WIM's Introductory
Journal Writing classes in the Winter and in the Summer.
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Ann
Epner is a founding member of Writers in
The Mountains. She has been writing since she could put letters together
to form words. Ann has taught creative writing classes and facilitated
critical thinking workshops in several contexts, including vocational
training programs with refugees and women on public assistance, adult
basic literacy classes and as a teacher of English as a second language
in Italy and Turkey.
Her published work included a monthly column for the New York Business
Women's Newspaper as well as the Catskill Guide. Those who sign up for
her workshop will greatly benefit from her wisdom and experience! She
currently works for the Roxbury Arts Group as a Community Arts Funding
Coordinator.
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Maggie
Inge, best known locally for her column, “At Your Service”,
which has run in the Catskill Mountain News for ten years. In addition
to her column, she writes other features for the paper. Her journalism
credits extend over 35 years and include articles in numerous national
magazines and newspapers. She began her journalism career on the staff
of 60 Minutes, where Mike Wallace described her as being “the only
person I ever met who can get the full story without ever asking a question.”
Maggie moved to the Catskills in 1994 and has a training consulting company, Avalon Training Services, Inc., which offers training, consulting and coaching services to businesses and individuals. She resides in New Kingston.
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Jennifer Kabot moved to Margaretville recently from London. She works as a journalist and her writing’s appeared in New York Magazine, Wired, Conde Nast Traveler, The Financial Times, Vogue, The Guardian, while she’s a contributing editor at the architecture and design magazine Metropolis. She’s been an editor at the British style magazine the Face and men’s magazine Arena as well as the American design magazine ED. She got her MFA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and works closely with a lauded group of young British writers including Diana Evans, Tash Aw and Richard Benson. After her MFA she taught American high school students creative writing as part of the prestigious Oxbridge summer abroad program at Cambridge University. She recently participated in the advanced fiction group and the master class in the short story at the New York State Summer Writers Institute. She is currently putting together a short story collection.
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Carol
Little holds a Master’s degree in Counseling, and is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. She has extensive experience working with groups, and with the use of writing for personal expression. Before returning to this area in 1994, she had a private practice in Santa Rosa, and Mill Valley California, and taught graduate students at J.F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA. She continues with a private practice, and has written numerous columns on topics related to emotional well being. Twenty years ago she started writing essays about her life experiences, and has not stopped yet.
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George Warner has lived full time near Arkville for ten years and before that spent weekends there for ten more. Since his retirement, he has enjoyed life by gardening, fly fishing, and the social and cultural opportunities of the area.
He taught English for thirty years at Pace University in New York City, where he loved teaching and students but hated correcting papers. Teaching writing was one of his greatest interests. Before his retirement, he innovated some courses using computers, then somewhat of a curiosity. In general, his concern was to aid those most in need of help, which meant freshman students from marginally literate backgrounds.
His proposed grammar course for Writers in the Mountains, on the other hand, is meant for adult writers who may want to review writing standards for texts which could be published.
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Melora
Wolff is an essayist and prose poet whose work appears regularly in journals and anthologies, most recently in The Best American Fantasy 2007 (June), The Southern Review, Green Mountains Review, The Chronicle Review, Cimarron Review, Fugue and West Branch. She has taught creative writing in colleges and for arts organizations for the past 17 years, including her three years at WIM. Currently, she teaches nonfiction and poetry at Skidmore College, where she is a full-time lecturer in English. She is the recipient of an Artists’ Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Philip Roth Residency in Poetry awarded by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University.
Dorothy Kubik is a free-lance writer living in Hamden, New York. Ever since she moved to the Catskills, she has enjoyed studying and writing about local history. She has written many articles and published two books on historical subjects: A Free-Soil - A Free People: The Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, New York. And West Through the Catskills: The story of the Susquehanna Turnpike. Her most recent work, The Adventures of Albert and Leopoldina is her first book for children.
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