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L. M. Archer
Seattle, WA
L.M. Archer lives in Seattle and is an award-winning writer, speaker, and content consultant for consumer, B2B and B2C platforms, conferences, and publications worldwide. She is a 2020 Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year award finalist. Designations include Bourgogne + Champagne Master Level and French Wine Scholar from the Wine Scholar Guild. When not working, she's drinking Oregon sparkling wine. Find her at: IG/Twitter @lmarcherml
WEBSITES
lmarcher.com
Gigi Berardi
Shaw Island, WA
Gigi Berardi is a Fulbright Scholar who lives in Shaw Island, Washington, and teaches at Huxley College of the Environment in Bellingham. In addition to teaching food and geography classes internationally, she homesteads 25 acres with her family, and milks sheep and makes cheese. Berardi maintains a popular food blog, and also contributes to dance publications. Berardi's most recent book,
FoodWISE
, received a silver medal in the Living Now Book Awards.
WEBSITES
gigiberardi.com
wp.wwu.edu/gigiberardi
Maxine Cass
Gold Hill, Oregon
Maxine Cass lives in Gold Hill, Oregon. The writer and author of travel and narrative history books has a B.A. in History and Medieval Studies. She has traveled the world and lived on the island of Samos, Greece and in Senegal, West Africa. A lifelong urban dweller, in 2014, Maxine transitioned to truly rural living on a 20-acre dual-forest property. She is writing and photographing her "going to the land" experience.
WEBSITES
maxinecass.com
Sondra Forsyth
Olympia, WA
Sondra Forsyth is an award-winning freelance writer, author, and former ballerina who lives in Olympia, Washington. She is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the health website thirdage.com, and a dance critic for Broadway World Dance. Forsyth has authored or co-authored 12 books and written scores of articles for major magazines. She has been on the faculty of many dance centers including the Studio de Ballet Opera in Beirut, Lebanon, and Steps on Broadway in NYC.
WEBSITES
sondraforsyth.com
Carla Furlong
Richmond, BC
Carla Furlong is a business writer and university educator who lives in Richmond (near Vancouver), British Columbia. With an MBA in Marketing, she develops corporate materials such as case studies for the investment, resource, and health care industries. Her book,
Marketing Money
, was one of the first to focus on the unique nature of financial communications; her second one,
Marketing for Keeps
, was one of the first to do the same for customer retention.
Fred Gebhart
Gold Hill, OR
Fred Gebhart covers the trade side of medical, pharmaceutical, and bioscience developments from Gold Hill, Oregon. Between gigs, he cooks, battles looping tendrils of blackberry and poison oak in a forest restoration project and tries to dissuade ground squirrels from snacking on lettuce, chard, and tomatoes.
WEBSITES
FredGebhart.com
Rosemary Keevil
Whistler, BC
Rosemary Keevil lives in Whistler, British Columbia. She has been a TV news reporter, a current affairs radio show host, and managing editor of a professional women's magazine. Rosemary has a master's degree in journalism and is currently a journalist covering addiction, recovery and grief. She is the author of
The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
.
WEBSITES
rosemarykeevil.com
Catherine Kolonko
Portland, OR
Catherine Kolonko is a features writer based in Portland, Oregon. Catherine often reports on medical topics. Her additional journalistic interests include sustainability, design, technology, travel, and humor writing. Catherine has worked for a biotech company and began her career as a newspaper reporter covering breaking news and crime for a Southern California daily newspaper. She holds a journalism degree from San Diego State University.
Bruce W. Miller
Seattle, WA
Bruce Miller is a writer, editor, IT consultant, and database architect and administrator. He has written for various regional and national publications ranging from personality profiles to natural medicine to technology and travel. He has received awards for writing and audio production. He is a former board member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and was the organization's IT Manager for 14 years. Miller had the foresight in the early days of the Internet to secure domain asja.org for the Society.
WEBSITES
networkfixes.com
brucemiller.com
dbseattle.com
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M. Carolyn Miller
Portland, OR
M. Carolyn Miller, MA (she/her/hers) is the PNW chapter president and lives in Portland, Oregon. Called the Story Lady by her clients, she has worked with story for 30 years as a writer (books, articles, essays, short fiction), and as a narrative instructional designer (storyboards, immersive/interactive, games/gamification). You can learn more about story -- hers and yours -- by visiting her website.
WEBSITES
cultureshape.com
Joanna Nesbit
Bellingham, WA
Joanna Nesbit is a content marketer and service journalist who covers personal finance, higher education, family, and aging. She writes regularly about financial aid, student loans, and other college topics for Money Magazine and other publications. She got her freelance start as a family travel writer. She lives in Bellingham not far from the island where she grew up. You can find her on Twitter at @joannanesbit.
WEBSITES
joannanesbit.com
https://joannanesbit.contently.com/
Michelle Rafter
Portand, OR
Michelle Rafter is a Portland-based ghostwriter on business and management topics, editorial project leader, and occasional freelance writer covering business, tech, freelancing, and the future of work.
WEBSITES
michellerafter.com
Randy Stapilus
Carlton, OR
Randy Stapilus is a writer, editor and publisher who lives in Carlton, Oregon. He has been a newspaper reporter and worked in TV news. Randy has since operated Ridenbaugh Press, first in Idaho and now in Oregon. He has written more than a dozen books for his own publishing company and for others (most of those for Globe-Pequot) and a weekly newspaper column on politics and society in the Northwest.
WEBSITES
ridenbaugh.com
Sharon Elaine Thompson
Salem, OR
Sharon Elaine Thompson lives in Salem, Oregon, and is a Graduate Gemologist and Fellow of the Gemological Association of Great Britain. Her articles have been published primarily in jewelry publications. A docent for five years at the Los Angeles Zoo, Thompson has written about cheetahs, gorillas and Sumatran rhinos. She has authored three science-related young adult books. Sharon writes women's fiction/suspense under the name Liz Harley.
WEBSITES
sharonelainethompson.com
Darlene West
Okanagan Valley, BC
Darlene West lives in the southern Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. She covered the energy industry in Calgary, Alberta, before moving to BC, nearly two decades ago with her husband to grow wine grapes. Darlene divides her time between the vineyard and freelance writing, specializing in travel and the outdoors. She is the author of three travel guidebooks. Currently, Darlene is focusing more on essays and other creative nonfiction along with photography.
WEBSITES
darlenewest.ca
Minda Zetlin
Snohomish, WA
Minda Zetlin lives in Snohomish, Washington, and is a past president of ASJA. She writes about business, career and technology. Her work often appears in Inc.com, Business Insider, CNBC.com, and CIO.com. Minda's books include
The Geek Gap: Why Business and Technology Professionals Don't Understand Each Other and Why They Need Each Other to Survive
. Her next book,
Career Self-Care
, was published in 2022.
WEBSITES
mindazetlin.wordpress.com
