Meet January's Author Next Door: Jay Harrington
If fairies were to live anywhere, they would live along a stretch of the Cedar Cathedral Trail in the Grand Traverse Commons, called the Fairy Trails Project. Along these paths, tiny houses made of pine cones, shells, and rocks invite woodland fairies to inhabit their own little corners of Traverse City. The Fairy Trails Project […]
Meet December's Author Next Door: Michael Taillard
By Anna Faller December, 2017 Prolific author, Michael Taillard, was not always a writer — at least, not by trade. Taillard actually began college as a tuba performance major and part-time body piercer, but after taking his first economics course, he says, “everything just kind of clicked.” Taillard was initially drawn to economics by the […]
NWS Author Next Door: Marina Nieman Call
Author Next Door: Marina Nieman Call November 2017 Marina Call is a freelance writer currently working on her second novel. Originally from southern California, she received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in History of Art and Architecture. She continued her studies in Rome where she completed her Global MBA from St. […]
Author Next Door: Bob Jones
NWS Author Next Door May 2017 Bob Jones was born in Chicago in 1945. His instinctive interest in nature and the outdoors led him to begin shooting photographs in his 20s. He didn’t attend college until later in life and received a degree in Environmental Studies from Vermont College in 2000. He was then accepted […]
March NWS Author Next Door: Fleda Brown
NWS Author Next Door March 2017 Fleda Brown has published nine collections of poems. The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems, is out March 2017 from the University of Nebraska Press. The book is in the Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry Series. Her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry and has won […]
February Author Next Door: Richard C. Bachus
February NWS Author Next Door: Richard C. Bachus announces his latest book, “Into No Man’s Land,” released in January 2017. Book Description: From Hellgate Press, comes the sweeping saga of one military family’s journey through war, betrayal, and the perils of trying to keep a foothold on the home front. It’s 1989, and Nick Becker has left a […]
January Author Next Door: Debbie Craig
NWS Author Next Door: Debbie Craig I live in Alden, MI, which is a quaint little Northern Michigan town with my husband Neal and son Chris. I am the President of Craig Wealth Advisors and have been a financial advisor for over 16 years. Outside of work, I spend my time reading, attending my book […]
December NWS Author Next Door: Stephen Lewis
NWS Author Next Door: Stephen Lewis December 2016 Before retiring from Suffolk Community College on Long Island, New York, as Professor of English Emeritus, Stephen Lewis described himself as a teacher who also wrote. Now, this Brooklyn native and reversed roles—he is a writer who now occasionally teaches. Having moved to his moved to Old Mission Peninsula, Lewis feels […]
NWS Author Next Door: Kathleen Stocking
Anne Stanton recently caught up with author Kathleen Stocking. What makes a person want to be a writer? Troubles, I think. Someone, not me, said somewhere that a person starts with a wound they need to heal and once they figure out how to do it by creating – in art, writing, music — then […]
