PERFECTION IS ACHIEVED NOT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO ADD, BUT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO TAKE AWAY.
Soula Angelou, a native of Greece, adds an international flavor to our writers group. For many years, Soula worked as a personal executive assistant to internationally known author Taylor Caldwell and has been working on a book based on this experience.
Sandy Barton, lover of writing, family and all things Buffalo, has found life as a retired teacher an unexpected, ever-unfolding adventure. A frequent contributor to the Buffalo News, Sandy is the author of Abjectedly Yours, co-written with Anthony Chandor of Bath, England. Website
Larry Beahan, Buffalo native, Psychiatrist and Air Force veteran, continuously battles to preserve our natural environment. In addition to writing about his deep family roots in the Allegheny and Adirondack areas, his stories often capture the wildness of many characters living in Western New York. Facebook, Amazon, Website
Patricia Brown has an M.A. in U. S. History, a PhD. in Political Science/Public Administration and is currently the Vice President of Enrollment at Daemen College.
Deborah A. Dickinson is a freelance writer who resides in WNY. She is a member of the Association for Professional Women Writers and the Network of Biblical Storytellers.
Nancy Dickinson, a lifetime resident of this area, writes memoirs.
Mary Jo Hodge has a B.A., M.S. and a Doctorate in Public Administration. After working for over thirty years in the field of mental health, Mary is interested in quilting, writing, Tai Chi, social bridge, reading, gardening, floral arranging, travel and family activities with her husband Charles, her two daughters and her granddaughter. Amazon
BertaMae Ives an organist and retired teacher who traveled extensively within the United States and to eighteen countries to work with relief organizations. She is an award winning author who enjoys writing and humor. She wrote for "My View" in the Buffalo News, and is a contributor to the book "Doing Good For Goodness Sake". A grandma to six, Berta Mae wrote Ring in the Holidays and Between Tampax and Depends! Amazon
Linda A. Lavid, an award-winning author, is widely published in fiction and nonfiction. She gives presentations throughout Western New York on writing and publishing. Amazon, Art Website, Books Website
M. Leslie was raised in the Western New York countryside, but has always longed for Paris and points East. She believes that writing can be an act of great healing through the simple act of revealing what is true.
Mike Miller, a retired computer software engineer, began writing for fun in 2004. His writing includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and word search puzzles. Facebook
Lionel Nosenchuck, our capable leader from 1991-2012, had a B. A. in English Literature from Ohio State University, wrote beautiful stories about his family moving to the US and honed his stories as an Erie County advocate for the elderly into an exciting and informative book.
Carl Francis Penders answers much more than the question in Why I Write. His unique, edgy voice is energetic, demanding our attention as he opens his heart about writing, the topic that ties us all together.
R. C. Schneiderman graduated from the School of Management at the University of New York at Buffalo in 1992. He has been a business owner in the financial service industry for over 20 years. While working on his Graduate Degree from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, he took a leave of absence and worked on his novel.
Doris Michol Sippel championed the cause of Adoption Truth via birth certificates and remained a dynamic American Idenity civil rights activist since 1974. She owns Idenity Press, an independent publisher specializing in memoir and biography of adopted and donor-conceived people. Newspapers, social work journals and Government publications published her articles in the US, England, Australia and the Netherlands. Amazon, Website.
Raymond Thomas was born in Guyana and retired as a chemist in Buffalo. He has learned to love pizza and chicken wings as much as pepperpot and writes a variety of stories that often challenge physics and the universal laws of nature.
Fred Tomasello Jr., Over Coffee’s 2009 editor, is a Vietnam veteran who retired from the Tampa Postal Service, traveled for five years as a full-time RV’er and settled in Cheektowaga, NY where he writes about issues affecting veterans. Amazon, YouTube
Jeanne Treat is the author of the Dark Birthright Saga, a trilogy set in 17th century Scotland, England, and the Colonies. To research her books, she traveled to Scotland to visit castles, seaports, and stone circles, and talk to historians. She has also published in local newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. Website
Lois Vidaver founder of Northside Writers, celebrated her 30th year as a newspaper and magazine writer and believes firmly that in matters literary, belonging to a writer’s group is essential. She says Northside has been inspirational, helpful and caring and has critiqued many of her submissions before they were published.
Pamela Walck, a graduate of the Dallas Theological Seminary, is a follower of Jesus currently working as a physical therapist at ECMC. She enjoys going to the gym, writing, teaching, and going on mission trips to spread the Gospel. Her prayer is that others would follow Jesus as their Savior and that her writing would help to persuade them.
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Karen Walsh writes humor articles. Many have been published in Buffalo News My View. Amazon, Website
Max Warfield, born in Ridgefield, Conneticit, moved to Niagara County. He enjoys writing novels in between his work at his federal job and as a correspondent for the Lockport Union Sun & Journal. His 2 novels, "the Weather Vain" and "Brimstone", 2 novellas, Indepedently Blue" and "Cobra in the Clouds' and the short story collection, "Vanitas" are available in paperback and Kindle. Amazon
Cynthia Willerth 1936-2015, wrote children's short stories, wrote one acts and produced Christmas variety shows at Sumner Love Joy Methodist Church. She was a partner of SmatteringsBooks, publisher and writer of the science fiction series "The Knife of Truth" . Amazon, Website, FB Knife of Truth Fan Page.