Check out links below of friends, writing related sites and visiting faculty members. And let us know if you would like to add a link to any writing related sites with which you are affiliated.

Marc Acito
Marc Acito is a nationally-known author, opera singer, actor, and playwright. Marc's comic debut novel, How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater, won the Ken Kesey Award for the Novel and made the American Library Association's Top Ten Teen Book List.

Marilyn Allen
Marilyn Allen is a literary agent with the Allen O'Shea Literary Agency. She is an impassioned advocate for innovation in the marketing and selling of books and loves to work with writers who understand their audience and have smart marketing plans.

Mary Andonian
Mary Andonian is the agents and editors coordinator for the Willamette Writers conference and a monthly columnist for the Zine, Writers on the Rise.

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand is the author of six books for children and young adults. Her web site is at http://www.hevanet.com/grand/ Her books include a biography in poems and one in prose, an anthology of Puerto Rican folk-tales and a second book of four illustrated folk-tales, and a novel.

Joshua Bilmes
Joshua has a blog and a web site. Joshua Bilmes has been a literary agent since 1986, and proprietor of his own JABberwocky Literary Agency since 1994.

Jackie Blain
Screenwriter and out pitching room instructor Jackie Blain has a web site. Jackie is a Writer's Guild of America, West, screenwriter with over 40 hours of produced network television, a short film in production, and a feature in development.

Nancy Christie
Nancy Christie is a motivational speaker and a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She is also the creator of the "Rut-Busting"™ series of workshops and travels widely presenting workshops on writing and on personal growth.

Linda Clare
Linda Clare is a frequent presenter at writing conferences in the Northwest. Her web site is at http://godsonggrace.blogspot.com Linda is the coauthor of three non-fiction books, including Making Peace with a Dangerous God, with Kristen Ingram.

Sage Cohen
Sage Cohen is the author of Writing the Life Poetic. Visit Sage at www.sagesaidso.com. Her poetry and essays appear in journals and anthologies including Cup of Comfort for Writers, Oregon Literary Review, Greater Good and VoiceCatcher.

Charlotte Cook
Charlotte is president of Komenar Publishing. Komenar publishes first-time novelists, mostly literary mainstream and mystery, some historical and adventure.

Carolyn Conahan Digby Carolyn is the current staff illustrator of CRICKET magazine. She wrote and illustrated The Twelve Days of Christmas Dogs, published by Dutton Books in fall, 2005.

Laurie Lynn Drummond
Laurie Lynn Drummond has nine years' experience in law enforcement: two years as a dispatcher, two years as a plainclothes officer, and five years as a uniformed officer with the Baton Rouge City Police Department. Currently an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program at the Univeristy of Oregon, she is working on a novel, Memories of the Living, also for HarperCollins, and a book-length memoir, Losing My Gun.

Stella Pope Duarte
Stella Pope Duarte Stella is a writer of lyrical fiction that has won national awards. Her first collection of short stories, Fragile Night, (Bilingual Review Press, 1997) won a creative writing fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and was named a candidate for the prestigious, Pen West Fiction Award.

Hallie Ephron
Hallie Ephron is an award-winning book reivewer and the author of Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'Em Dead with Style and 1001 Books for Every Mood. Also the forthcoming Never Tell a Lie. Her web site is at www.hallieephron.com/

Julie Fast
Julie A. Fast is the best selling author of Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner. She also has a web site.

David Greenburg
David studied Philosophy of Religion and graduated from Reed College. His web site is at www.authorsillustrators.com/greenberg/greenberg.htm.

Pamela Hill Smith
At eighteen, Pamela sold a story her hometown newspaper and has been writing professionally ever since--first as a staff writer on an old-fashioned newspaper Society page and later as an advertising copywriter and publicist. Learn more at http://www.pamelasmithhill.com/

Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant
Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant is a humor writer and speaker who lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, her giant wiener dogs and the voices in her head. Her website is www.accidentalcomic.com.

Bill Johnson
Author of A Story is a Promise & Deep Characterization. He is also the host of Oregon Writers Speak, a site on YouTube.

Christina Katz
Author of "Writer Mama" and publisher of monthly zine for emerging writers, "Writers on the Rise". She also has a web site.

Bharti Kirchner Bharti Kirchner is the author of eight books -- four novels and four cookbooks. She is a frequent speaker at writer's conferences, book festivals, and universities throughout the nation. For more information, please go to www.bhartikirchner.com.

Gregory Kompes
Gregory A. Kompes , the Writerpreneur, helps authors learn to self promote using the internet and online technology.

Kylin Larsson
Kylin is an Acquisitions Manager at Ooligan Press. Ooligan's editorial interests include, but are not limited to: books with social, literary, or educational value; new or rediscovered works with a Pacific Northwest connection; works that give voice to the region's underrepresented; previously unpublished English translations of foreign titles; and works on the craft and teaching of writing, editing, publishing, and book arts.

Lee Loftland
Lee is a retired police detective. His Investigation is popular with writers and law enforcement officials.

Elizabeth Lyon
For twenty years, freelance editor Elizabeth Lyon has worked with hundreds of writers. Passionate about teaching writing, Lyon is the author of six books on the craft, revision, and marketing of fiction and nonfiction. Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writers Can Afford to Ignore is her final and most comprehensive book for writers. Her articles have appeared in The Writer, Writer's Digest, in anthologies, and in the 2008 Guide to Literary Agents. Manuscript. Contact: www.4-edit.com (Editing International), www.elizabethlyon.com (author), and www.manuscriptmakeover.com.

Brie Mazurek
Brie Mazurek is a senior editor with Ten Speed Press, a Berkeley-based independent publisher specializing in lifestyle nonfiction titles. During her nine-plus years at Ten Speed, she has worked on a wide array of books, from illustrated nonfiction to high-quality cookbooks to best-selling career guides.

Maureen McQuerry
Maureen McQuerry is a teacher, novelist and poet. Her web site is at www.maureenmcquerry.com.

Jessica Page Morrell
Jessica teaches thousands of writers each year through a series of workshops in the Northwest, at writing conferences throughout the country and in Canada and Mexico.

Tobi Kibel Piatek Educator, writer, consultant, web designer, graphic artist and speaker, Tobi Kibel Piatek has extensive experience developing and presenting curriculum, web content and classroom content for kids and teachers.

Elizabeth Rusch As an award-winning freelance writer and former managing editor of Teacher magazine, editor-in-chief of PointsBeyond.com, and contributing editor to Child and Fit Pregnancy. Learn more at www.elizabethrusch.com.

Gigi Rosenberg
Gigi Rosenberg is a writer, teacher and solo performer. She specializes in coaching writers on how to read in public and teaching artists how to write grants.

Mary Rosenblum
She has published more than 60 short stories in SF, mystery, and mainstream fiction, as well as eight novels. Her newest novel, Horizons, was released in November 2006 from Tor Books and came out in paperback in November 2007.

Elizabeth Rusch
Elizabeth Rusch is an award-winning freelance writer and former managing editor of Teacher magazine, editor-in-chief of PointsBeyond.com, and contributing editor to Child and Fit Pregnancy, Liz has published more than 100 articles in numerous national magazines for children and adults.a children's and young adult author.

Mark Schorr
Starting in 1982, with the Edgar-nominated "Red Diamond, Private Eye," Schorr drew on his many experiences as a bouncer, private investigator, a newspaper reporter, press secretary, and an international courier to create eleven mysteries/thrillers. He lived in New York, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles before settling in Portland. He has worked for CBS, NBC, USA Today, New York Magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. http://www.markschorr.com/index.html

Diana Schutz
Diana Schutz is an award-winning editor who has worked in the comics industry since 1978. She has spent the last eighteen of those thirty years at Dark Horse Comics, where she is an executive editor. Since 2002, she has also been an adjunct instructor of comics art history and criticism at Portland Community College.

Cornelia Seigneur
Cornelia Seigneur has been a regular contributor to The Oregonian since 1996, specializing in Faith and Inspiration stories as well as family features. Her website and blog can be found at: www.writermom.net

Elyn Selu
Elyn has taught creative writing for the University of New Orleans, screenwriting for Louisiana State University's Red Stick International Animation Festival, and was co-founder of the fiction writing workshop, The Women's Writing Collective.

Anne W. Smith
Anne has been a creative writing instructor and conference workshop leader for twenty years. Learn more at www.annewarrensmith.com.

Sheila L. Stephens
Sheila L. Stephens was the first female Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) special agent in the state of Alabama. Her Everything Book of Private Investigation will be published by August 2008. Her web site is at www.safersecurityinc.com.

Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor and her partner, Barbara Allen Burke, are the co-owners of Past Perfect, a life-story writing business.

Mike Thaler
Mike Thaler is known as "America's Riddle King" and the "Court Jester of Children's Literature."

Cynthia Whitcomb
Screenwriter, teacher of screenwriting, president of WW. Her website has resources for writers.

Laura Whitcomb
Laura is the author of A Certain Slant of Light, a young adult novel.

Eric Witchey
Eric is a nationally known and respected teacher of the craft of writing fiction. His articles on writing have appeared in The Writer and Writers Digest.