Charlene Chapman has used multiple media forms to immerse herself in creative non-fiction. She worked on three documentaries (one picked up by HBO), authored two screenplays, and two stage plays. She is currently exploring the craft of short story fiction and is in the process of authoring a novel. Charlene lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her beloved husband, Jeff, and her anxiety-ridden dog, Deacon. Time with her children and grandchildren brings her immeasurable joy.
Prior to opening her own law office in 1996, Meg Groff was a family law attorney at the Legal Aid program in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for 12 years. A recognized authority on issues of child custody and domestic violence, Groff has focused on representing victims of abuse and the poor for more than three decades, handling huge caseloads and winning countless cases. Her debut Not If I Can Help It published in March with Rivertowns Books. Groff lives with her husband, a retired carpenter and leather craftsman, and their two dogs. Their daughter Ruth Groff is a professor of political science and philosophy at Saint Louis University.
Paige Gardner is a lover of all things fiction. She enjoys writing novels and short stories. Paige grew up in a sleepy town outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before eventually making her way to the rolling hills of Bucks County—where she found kindred spirits in the Bucks County Writers Group, her creative home away from home. Together with some BCWG writers, Paige founded Dandelion Revolution Press, an indie press on a mission to publish pieces that prove women are every bit as dynamic in fiction as they are in real life. When Paige is not writing, she loves teaching English to adults, exploring and traveling through her new home in Europe, enjoying a drink with close friends, and laughing. To keep up with Paige’s writing journey, and all of her writing woes, you can follow her SubStack WANTED: Kindred Spirits.
After decades of writing creative non-fiction in the form of strategic business plans and advertising copy Lise Halpern has turned her thousand word a day writing habit to more literary pursuits. Her writing has appeared in After Dinner Conversation and CaféLit Magazine. She resides with two crazy border collies in a river town in bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Visit her website www.lisehalpern.com or find her on Facebook.
Emily Joyce Honer writes a mixture of dark fantasy, gothic horror, and weird fiction. She earned her BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and works in marketing at Tor Books. Her short story “A Curious Incident Aboard the Britannica” is published in the anthology Every Breath Alight from Dandelion Revolution Press. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and you can find her on Instagram @all__the__books.
Jessica Kaplan enjoys writing flash fiction pieces and short stories. She has a degree in English, and holds a graduate degree in the field of blind rehabilitation. Currently, she is studying to become a teacher of the visually impaired. When she’s not writing or practicing her braille skills, her time is spent befriending neighborhood cats, smelling flowers, and running on the mule path along River Road. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
James P. W. Martin is a storyteller of many mediums and genres. With a degree in Film Production from Emerson College, he works as a video editor, crafting stories for documentaries and TV series. His self-produced short films have been showcased in film festivals across the country. He writes screenplays, satire, and reviews for The Boundary-Bending Blog, aptly named for his provoking, genre-defying style. James lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where you just might be lucky enough to catch him killing it at karaoke. He is excited to have his first short story published and has big plans for more short- and novel-length stories in the future.
After a career in finance, Bob McCrillis/F.E. Howard (historical romance) turned to his first love, writing. Instead of squeezing his writing in spare time, he now write devotes full-time to the craft. He considers himself a genre writer focused on adventure, and, as F.E. Howard, romance generally featuring powerful women in male-dominated settings. He has published two short story collections and a novel, won several short story contests, and has been published in three online magazines.
He and his wife, Linda, are employed full-time as live-in servants of an exceptionally demanding Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. The manse is in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Adam J. Newton is the curator and organizer of the Bucks County Writers Group. He made his authorial debut in the 2019 collection of short stories Creaky Stairs, A Book of Dark Truths, contributing seventeen pieces of original fiction to the collection, including: Lilies of the Field, Chong’s Garden, the Better Left Alone series, and The Spring House. The latter was adapted into a short film of the same name by filmmaker Bruce Logan and featured in the Best of Local Haunts Film Festival in October of 2020. Adam lives in Bucks County with his family and beloved Shih Tzu, Minima.