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Write Action Board Members

President – Charlene Wakefield
Works at Vermont Legal Aid doing financial analysis. Charlene's writing has been published in The Best of Write Action, the Cracker Barrel and the Chrysalis Reader. Her art has been featured on the cover of Chrysalis Reader and used as a cup design for Vermont Legal Aid.

Vice President – Tom Ragle
President Emeritus of Marlboro College, former Director of the Salzburg Seminar, and former special consultant to the United Nations Development Program in Beijing, China.  Amateur poet under the pen name Lee Bramble.

Secretary – Arlene Distler
Poet, community organizer, freelance writer, artist.
Has had poetry in Chrysalis Journal, Kalliope, among other publications, is currently working on a book. Her art reviews are regularly featured in Art New England, The Brattleboro Reformer, and other publications.

Treasurer – Mary Mathias
Mary W. Mathias is a licensed clinical social worker and a writer.  She
spent many years working in refugee mental health.  She is writing a book
about communal farming in the 1970's.  Her work has appeared in "The Green
Mountain Trading Post."

Toni Ortner
Toni Ortner has had nine books of poetry published by fine small presses; the most recent was Requiem by the Black Tie Press in Houston, TX. She has written a memoir of llinked stories titled Shiva. She lives in Brattleboro, and runs a radio show once a month for Write Action on l07.7 where she interviews writers.

Edmund Brelsford
Well known in the area for his performances of early music, he is also emeritus professor of foreign languages and literatures at Marlboro College, where, during his 44 year tenure, he has also taught comparative literature, linguistics, translation, and both consecutive and simultaneous interpretation.

Ex-officio Board members

Jacqueline Gens is the co-director and a founder of the  MFA Program in Poetry at New England College.

Eric Blomquist, Communications Director, works as an editor of a scientific journal.

 

 

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