Below are short bios for some of our Members. If you are a Member who would like to add a bio, just email elginwritersguild@outlook.com.
Peter Bloch-Hansen
Peter, now a resident woodcarver in St. Thomas, has a long career in writing. He’s worked as a media journalist, a published poet. and prize-winning author and playwright, concentrating now on poetry and theatre work. If you see him on the street, stop him and ask him about spoons.
Julie Berry
I write poetry and short prose for readers who are looking to be surprised, devastated, delighted, re-educated, re-membered or re-invented. At their best the poems offer a unique perspective on the daily lives of ordinary people—transforming those moments and those people into unrecognizable phantasmagoria. Or sometimes the poems are (more)
Terry Carroll
My name is Terry Carroll, and I write novels, short stories and magazine columns. Three of my crime novels were edited by Bev Daurio and published by Mercury Press, a company unfortunately now out of business. Those novels are No Blood Relative, Body Contact and Snow Candy. Two of them were shortlisted for Arthur Ellis Awards from Crime (more)
James Todd
I write in the non-fiction area for business audiences, mostly to inform and persuade and perhaps to inspire. With experience in a wide range of forms in journalism, academia, marketing, public relations, and business communications, I have become well-rounded from decades of writing and editing. I have been the go-to writer in several (more)
Lisa Jibson
Lisa Jibson is the owner and CEO of Ross Street Agency Inc. An executive administrative solutions service for businesses and government, located in St. Thomas, but able to work remotely everywhere. Lisa has been published several times in Elgin this Month and This Month in Elgin, as well as Municipal World magazine. Part of the services she offers (more)
Steve Ogden
I write for the same reason I sometimes interrupt people, or dominate a conversation: something’s got me excited and, like a kid in a candy store, I can’t help expressing what’s bubbling up inside. Sadly, that motivation to write tends to pass as quickly as the urge is satisfied. Considering my typical reason for writing, I can’t say I really have ‘intended (more)
Jeff Kennedy
My name is Jeffery Dennis Warren Kennedy, but I like to write under JD Kennedy. Don’t ask me why, I can’t say. I just like it. I make my living driving trucks for the Post Office and I write because I get ideas and I can’t let them just die. That would be cruel so I breathe a little life into them, plot them out and then just write them. My audience is any hapless (more)
Catherine Marshall
Over the years, my writing has been related to my legal and teaching careers. Both types of writing are instrumental in purpose, almost exclusively. The object of each is to affect a positive result, ideally the one anticipated by the lawyer and the teacher. Legal documents and correspondence do not explore possibilities unrelated to the situation at hand. (more)
Paula Carr
I write under the name P. Avice Carr. I use that name to remind me of my mother. Her name was Avice, and she was always proud to correct people about the spelling; “Avice like Alice with a V” and the pronunciation “Not Avis with a long A. “Her name was the only thing I can remember her standing up for. For the rest of her life, she was careful. When she got (more)
Stephanie Holt
My standing desk allows me the physical freedom of movement which frees my creativity to write short stories about the world seen through my mindful lens. First drafts are mostly written in notebooks with fountain pens and then typed into my laptop. From there, I print it out and work through the editing process in notebooks and on my laptop. My (more)
Trudy Prins
My name is Trudy Prins. I have loved books from childhood, and it appears that this trait has been inherited by my children and grandchildren! The Bible stories, the myths, the fairy tales, and the family lore are all so important in teaching strategies for living. The journals I’ve kept over many years have proven to be safe havens to work through reflections and (more)