Visiting Writers

ME! Thought I’d slip in some silliness to ease the holiday stress. Enjoy!! A Thanksgiving Survival Kit: Sound Advice for the Day and a Cautionary Tale for the Aftertimes By D. Margaret Hoffman The Sound Advice: A Holiday To-Do (or Don’t) List: Ten Ways to Insure a Happy Thanksgiving      In summary, be nice. Be

Chelsea Dodds! Chelsea Dodds is a high school English teacher living on the Connecticut shoreline. She earned her MFA in fiction from Southern Connecticut State University and her writing has recently been published in Poetry Super Highway, Rejection Letters, Sixfold Journal, and Maudlin House. Chelsea is currently working on a novel and a poetry collection, and when not writing,

P. Jo Anne Burgh! Jo Anne, a long-time Connecticut resident, lives with four cats in Glastonbury. By day, she’s a lawyer; by night (and on weekends, and in any other spare moments she can find), she writes novels, short stories, blog posts, and biographies for adoptable shelter cats. Jo Anne is also the owner of

JENNIE NIMTZ! Jennie, a native Connecticuter, has both a scientific side and a creative side. Recently retired from a career in the field of Mineral Processing, she is thrilled to devote more time to creative writing. Her main focus, at this time, is telling the stories behind things in her possession–stories to be passed down

AMY NICHOLSON! Amy lives with her family by a waterfall in northwest Connecticut. Her garden is wild and wonderful, a source of eternal inspiration. She often needs to abandon pruning shears for the sake of pen and notebook. . . leaving her little time for weeding. She has words in Clerestory, Country Women, and Today’s

CARMEN NEALE! Carmen Neale has been writing since she was a child in her native Colombia. She says writing is as necessary for her happiness as eating or breathing. She prefers to write fiction but has also written several memoir pieces based on her early life in Colombia. She writes both for children and adults.