Writers Guild of Eastern Oregon WGEO.org

Our authors and members are listed alphabetically below. Contact us to be listed or forward message to a particular author/member.

	Nancy Garhan Attebury has an MA in Children's Literature and has published both adult and children's fiction and non-fiction, including a biography, Gloria Steinem: Champion of Women's Rights, and numerous leveled readers.
	Kirsten Badger - After publishing a paper with the National Academy of Sciences, Kirsten's life went off on a tangent. She is now writing her memoirs, starting in occupied Denmark in WWII through her emigration and life in the sub-arctic bush, finally ending up in Sparta.
	Linda Bergeron, a freelance correspondent for the Hell's Canyon Journal, writes poetry, autobiographical sketches, and regional history, and has been published in the Tinker's Shop, In Context magazine and Rain magazine.
	Ron Brand was reporter, editor, and co-owner of the Elgin Recorder from 1994-1999, and helped edit The Tinker's Shop, a quarterly journal of the arts. He has written With Charon - Laughing To Beat The Band, his first book of poetry.
	Howard Brooks, a geologist (M.S. Univ. of Nevada), documented the impact of mining on early settlement in A Pictorial History Of Gold Mining In The Blue Mountains Of Eastern Oregon. He has also produced many reports and maps on the geology and mineral deposits of Oregon.
	Chuck Buchanan a.k.a. Charlie MacNiel (his Single Action Shooting Society alias) wrote Complications, the first novel in a series set in the American west of the 1870s-1880s.
	C. F. Button - A retired botanist and wildlife biologist, Clair now has three mystery novels listed on our publications page. Email: cbutton "at" wgeo.org Snakeweed Press
	Glenda M. Carter - a Vietnam War widow writes Sacred Shadow, Sacred Ground, her personal journey and healing after 30 years of living with unresolved grief.
	Whit Deschner writes humor in many forms, from poetry to short stories to travel and adventure. Burning the Iceberg and Travels with a Kayak are just two of his unique productions.
	Eloise Dielman - edits, compiles, and writes for the Baker County Historical Society and Friends of the Library and also taught writing at the Crossroads Art Center. Baker County - Links to The Past and Historic Baker City are among her many accomplishments.
	Gary Dielman has published numerous history articles in local newspapers and published May Live and Die a Miner: The 1864 Clarksville Diary of James W. Virtue in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, spring 2004.
	Jack Franklin has written a historical fiction novel, I'd Rather Be Lucky! about the settlement of the Owyhee plateau country in the 1850s.
	Kerry Jones was raised on a northeast Oregon cattle ranch, but lived in Madrid, Tokyo and Seattle before returning "home." She is a member of Romance Writers of America and owns Black Lyon Publishing with an increasing list of accomplished authors.
	Betty Kuhl - founder of Betty's Books in Baker City wrote her first book, Dr. Bill Kuhl, Family and Friends, as a family history project. Betty and her daughter Carolyn are working on a biography of Betty's grandmother, who came to Puget Sound from Norway in 1889.
	Joe Knotts wrote The Mystery of the Small Tower, for his 12 year old daughter Tessa and found it had a wider audience with her peers and teachers. Now he has a second, The Case of the Stolen Twins.
	Wayne Lewis, author of Sea Cop, is a former prosecutor, federal criminal investigator, and Special Agent who helped make law enforcement a priority of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
	Richard Mack - writes poetry and essays about western landscapes and life in Reflections in a Western River and Against A Western Sky, and now has a new romantic novel, Quail Song.
	Thomas Madden earned graduate degrees at Univ. of Montana, and Univ. of Oregon. He taught English, writing, and journalism at Eastern Oregon University for 25 years and worked as a reporter for several newspapers before that. He has published two book of poems, Graves in Wheat and Lessons For Custer.
	Roberta Marlow's first novel,The Copperfield Affair, is a romantic historical fiction that grew out of her research on the history of the town of Copperfield on the Snake River.
	Doug McKim has written short stories, newspaper articles, and film reviews. In 2003, he created and edited a periodical known as GREGORY, centered on economic and community development. Currently, Doug is penning a novel.
	David Memmott has published over 150 poems, essays and stories in numerous magazines and anthologies, four poetry collections, a collection of short stories and a new science fiction novel. He owns and operates Wordcraft of Oregon.
	Dr. Ted Merrill - A retired doctor living in John Day, Ted writes about fishing, learning, passing on values, culture, rural society, and medicine in River Runts and I Only Dress the Wounds. Homeostasispress.com
	Misha Nogha, an Arthur C. Clark Award nominee (Red Spider, White Web), has written speculative science fiction, cyberpunk poetry, and western fiction. She draws inspiration from her Cree and Norwegian ancestral traditions for her writing and music.
	Dave Rama is a writer of humor, essays, and short stories. He has recently joined us on the WGEO blog as a contributing author.
	Debby Schoeningh - a newspaper columnist writes a collection of humorous tales of a city girl married into a ranching family in Tails From The Countryside and now The Horseless Rancher.
	Donna McDaniel Skovlin, with her husband, Jon, has researched and written about the history of some notorious local outlaws and incidents, including The Murder of John Hawks, an incident in which her ancestors may have played the role of vigilantes.
	Jon Skovlin's roots also run deep in Wallowa County, where he has lived off and on since the age of 12. He and wife Donna have also produced two other books of local history, Hank Vaughan and In Pursuit Of The McCartys.
	Pamela Steele, a Fishtrap Fellow and recent recipient of an artists fellowship from Jentel Foundation, currently teaches at Hermiston Elementary Schools. Her first full-length book of poetry, Paper Bird, is available now through Wordcraft of Oregon.
	Mary Vinecore, (a.k.a. Mary Vine) delayed college and career until her kids were in high school. She became an officer of a writers group, published two articles, and now a novel, Maya's Gold. An active member of Romance Writers of America, Mary teaches K-12 students speech and language.
	Rob Whitbeck is a farmer and laborer in Wheeler County. He authored two poetry collections, Oregon Sojourn and The Taproot Confessions. He was awarded a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts and has won The Working Peoples Poetry Competition, sponsored by Partisan Press.
	Karen "Trish" Yerges has published over 150 articles on medicine, art, and history and co-authored Confronting Lyme Disease with Dr. Rita L. Stanley. She specializes in writing narratives and biographies.

Nancy Garhan Attebury has an MA in Children's Literature and has published both adult and children's fiction and non-fiction, including a biography, Gloria Steinem: Champion of Women's Rights, and numerous leveled readers.

Kirsten Badger - After publishing a paper with the National Academy of Sciences, Kirsten's life went off on a tangent. She is now writing her memoirs, starting in occupied Denmark in WWII through her emigration and life in the sub-arctic bush, finally ending up in Sparta.

Linda Bergeron, a freelance correspondent for the Hell's Canyon Journal, writes poetry, autobiographical sketches, and regional history, and has been published in the Tinker's Shop, In Context magazine and Rain magazine.

Ron Brand was reporter, editor, and co-owner of the Elgin Recorder from 1994-1999, and helped edit The Tinker's Shop, a quarterly journal of the arts. He has written With Charon - Laughing To Beat The Band, his first book of poetry.

Howard Brooks, a geologist (M.S. Univ. of Nevada), documented the impact of mining on early settlement in A Pictorial History Of Gold Mining In The Blue Mountains Of Eastern Oregon. He has also produced many reports and maps on the geology and mineral deposits of Oregon.

Chuck Buchanan a.k.a. Charlie MacNiel (his Single Action Shooting Society alias) wrote Complications, the first novel in a series set in the American west of the 1870s-1880s.

C. F. Button - A retired botanist and wildlife biologist, Clair now has three mystery novels listed on our publications page. Email: cbutton "at" wgeo.org Snakeweed Press

Glenda M. Carter - a Vietnam War widow writes Sacred Shadow, Sacred Ground, her personal journey and healing after 30 years of living with unresolved grief.

Whit Deschner writes humor in many forms, from poetry to short stories to travel and adventure. Burning the Iceberg and Travels with a Kayak are just two of his unique productions.

Eloise Dielman - edits, compiles, and writes for the Baker County Historical Society and Friends of the Library and also taught writing at the Crossroads Art Center. Baker County - Links to The Past and Historic Baker City are among her many accomplishments.

Gary Dielman has published numerous history articles in local newspapers and published May Live and Die a Miner: The 1864 Clarksville Diary of James W. Virtue in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, spring 2004.

Jack Franklin has written a historical fiction novel, I'd Rather Be Lucky! about the settlement of the Owyhee plateau country in the 1850s.

Kerry Jones was raised on a northeast Oregon cattle ranch, but lived in Madrid, Tokyo and Seattle before returning "home." She is a member of Romance Writers of America and owns Black Lyon Publishing with an increasing list of accomplished authors.

Betty Kuhl - founder of Betty's Books in Baker City wrote her first book, Dr. Bill Kuhl, Family and Friends, as a family history project. Betty and her daughter Carolyn are working on a biography of Betty's grandmother, who came to Puget Sound from Norway in 1889.

Joe Knotts wrote The Mystery of the Small Tower, for his 12 year old daughter Tessa and found it had a wider audience with her peers and teachers. Now he has a second, The Case of the Stolen Twins.

Wayne Lewis, author of Sea Cop, is a former prosecutor, federal criminal investigator, and Special Agent who helped make law enforcement a priority of the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Richard Mack - writes poetry and essays about western landscapes and life in Reflections in a Western River and Against A Western Sky, and now has a new romantic novel, Quail Song.

Roberta Marlow's first novel,The Copperfield Affair, is a romantic historical fiction that grew out of her research on the history of the town of Copperfield on the Snake River.

Doug McKim has written short stories, newspaper articles, and film reviews. In 2003, he created and edited a periodical known as GREGORY, centered on economic and community development. Currently, Doug is penning a novel.

David Memmott has published over 150 poems, essays and stories in numerous magazines and anthologies, four poetry collections, a collection of short stories and a new science fiction novel. He owns and operates Wordcraft of Oregon.

Dr. Ted Merrill - A retired doctor living in John Day, Ted writes about fishing, learning, passing on values, culture, rural society, and medicine in River Runts and I Only Dress the Wounds. Homeostasispress.com

Dave Rama is a writer of humor, essays, and short stories. He has recently joined us on the WGEO blog as a contributing author.

Debby Schoeningh - a newspaper columnist writes a collection of humorous tales of a city girl married into a ranching family in Tails From The Countryside and now The Horseless Rancher.

Donna McDaniel Skovlin, with her husband, Jon, has researched and written about the history of some notorious local outlaws and incidents, including The Murder of John Hawks, an incident in which her ancestors may have played the role of vigilantes.

Jon Skovlin's roots also run deep in Wallowa County, where he has lived off and on since the age of 12. He and wife Donna have also produced two other books of local history, Hank Vaughan and In Pursuit Of The McCartys.

Pamela Steele, a Fishtrap Fellow and recent recipient of an artists fellowship from Jentel Foundation, currently teaches at Hermiston Elementary Schools. Her first full-length book of poetry, Paper Bird, is available now through Wordcraft of Oregon.

Mary Vinecore, (a.k.a. Mary Vine) delayed college and career until her kids were in high school. She became an officer of a writers group, published two articles, and now a novel, Maya's Gold. An active member of Romance Writers of America, Mary teaches K-12 students speech and language.

Rob Whitbeck is a farmer and laborer in Wheeler County. He authored two poetry collections, Oregon Sojourn and The Taproot Confessions. He was awarded a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts and has won The Working Peoples Poetry Competition, sponsored by Partisan Press.

Karen "Trish" Yerges has published over 150 articles on medicine, art, and history and co-authored Confronting Lyme Disease with Dr. Rita L. Stanley. She specializes in writing narratives and biographies.