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Michelle Cameron's first full-length novel in verse, In the Shadow
of the Globe, was published by Lit Pot Press, Inc., in 2003. It has received
excellent critical reviews, and was named as the Shakespeare Theatre of New
Jersey's 2003 Winter Book Selection. In addition, it has become a performance
piece in various venues, including the Stella Adler Studio of Acting's recent
Shakespeare Benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, and as part of the
Drew University's colloquium, Shakespeare in Performance II, the
College of Saint Elizabeth's Alumnae/i Weekend (acted by Shakespeare Theatre
of New Jersey actors), and as a fully staged version by the Vintage Players.
Michelle teaches as an adjunct faculty member in the College of Saint Elizabeth.
Barbara Daniels has taught middle school, high school, and college English.
With her husband David, she wrote English Grammar, which has sold more than
50,000 copies. She is also a poet whose book, Rose Fever, will be published
by WordTech Press in 2008. She earned master’s degrees from New York
University and Vermont College.
David Daniels teaches a grammar course at Camden County College, where he
is a professor of English. With his wife Barbara he wrote English Grammar,
published by HarperCollins, as well as Persuasive Writing in the same series.
He also edited A Basic Reader for College Writers, published by Townsend Press.
He earned a master’s degree in English from New York University.
Barbara Doherty was a K-8 classroom teacher, a G/T teacher, program coordinator, author and consultant. Barbara has authored over 100 student activity books and simulation games for various publishers and has written special supplements for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In addition, Barbara has been a judge for the NJCTE annual writing contest and was featured in the November 2003 edition of the NJEA Review.
Joe Duffy is the recipient of two Arts in Education grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He recently retired from 23 years of teaching Drawing at Atlantic City High School where he was voted Teacher of the Year by his colleagues. He worked for some years as an artist for the Atlantic City Press and has extensive freelance experience for clients including area advertising agencies, Trump Casino, the Atlantic City Beach Patrol and Van Duyne Surfboats. Duffy attended Philadelphia College of Art. He received a BA in Art Education from Glassboro State College. He lives in Ventnor, NJ with his wife, family and yellow Lab, Rosie.
Douglas Goetsch has taught writing on the college and graduate levels, to
incarcerated individuals, and for 21 years in the New York City public
school system. He holds a degree in American studies, and is also an award
winning writer, author of five collections of poetry, most recently, The Job of Being Everybody (Cleveland State University Press, 2004).
Visit Doug online:
www.janestreet.org.
Luray Gross is a poet and storyteller who works extensively as a Teaching Artist, both on a free lance basis and through the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and Storytelling Arts, Inc. of Kingston, NJ. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Forenoon, published in 1990 by The Attic Press in Westfield, NJ, and Elegant Reprieve, winner of the 1995-96 Still Waters Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. The Perfection of Zeros was published by Word Press in 2004.
Lois Marie Harrod's chapbook Put Your Sorry Side Out was published by Concrete Wolf in 2005, and she won a 2003 fellowship, her third, from the New Jersey Council on the Arts for her poetry. Her sixth book of poetry Spelling the World Backward (2000) was published by Palanquin Press, University of South Carolina Aiken, which also published her chapbook This Is a Story You Already Know (l999) and her book Part of the Deeper Sea (l997). Her poems have appeared in many journals, among them American Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, American Pen, Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, Zone 3, Green Mountains Review. Her earlier publications include the books Every Twinge a Verdict (Belle Mead Press, l987), Crazy Alice(Belle Mead Press, l991) and a chapbook Green Snake Riding (New Spirit Press, l994). A Geraldine R. Dodge poet, she currently teaches English at Voorhees High School.
Mary Jo Hennessy has been a certified Sign Language Interpreter under the National Registry for the Deaf since 1984. She has 15 years experience as an Interpreter/Tutor in the classroom working with Deaf and hard of hearing students in New York City intermediate schools, high schools and alternative high schools (BOCES) and has interpreted for the National Theatre of the Handicapped as well as for the Joan Kennedy Center at Lincoln Center. She can interpret the fundamentals of the three R's, make the sciences sparkle, social studies breathe, and can even make poetry come to life on her hands! She currently works at LaGuardia Community College as a staff interpreter.
Julia Hollman attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where she earned a B.A. in History and Tufts University she completed an M.A.T. After spending two years working as a program instructor in Washington, D.C. for the Close Up Foundation, a non-profit educational organization that teaches government and politics to students from around the country, she made her way to New Jersey where she has taught at Edison High School and James Caldwell High School in West Caldwell. Her teaching responsibilities have included A.P. U.S. History I & II, A.P. American Government, Contemporary American Studies, and Diplomatic History. She also teaches heterogeneously grouped U.S. History II with inclusion.
Charlotte Jaffe, a former LAL teacher, G/T coordinator, and educational consultant, has authored over 100 student activity books, educational games, teaching manuals, and newspaper and magazine articles including Enchanted Castle, Missing Persons, Space Race, Time Traces Curator, Persuasive Writing, Succeeding With Literature Circles, and Public Speaking for Kids. Charlotte has served as a judge for the NJCTE’s annual statewide writing contest and was featured in the November 2003 edition of the NJEA Review.
Joseph Leary is a writer, photographer and filmmaker who began his career as a photojournalist. He is best known for his extensive coverage of the French space program in the 1980s. Most recently, he published the book A Shared Landscape, a History and Guide to Public Land in Connecticut. Between 1988 and 1990, he was the producer of the annual Asimov Seminars with author, historian and futurist Dr. Isaac Asimov. In 1977, he and a partner created the first full-scale operating replica of the Revolutionary War submarine Turtle, and made six dives in the submarine before it was retired to a museum in Essex, Connecticut.
Paul Lyons teaches Social Work, US History, and Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Richard Stockton College. He has taught courses on Understanding September 11, the Vietnam War, American Conservatism, and The 1960s and is the author of four books, mostly recently The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press 2004). He was been providing workshops for public school teachers for more than twenty five years.
Mimi Schwartz's marriage memoir, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, appeared in 2002. Her short work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The New York Times, Tikkun, and Writer's Digest, among others, and five of her essays have been Notables in Best American Essays. Writing True, the art and craft of creative nonfiction, is her latest book, co-authored with Sondra Perl (Houghton Miflin, September 2005). She teaches creative nonfiction at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and at The Writer's Voice in New York City.
Visit Mimi online:
www.mimischwartz.net.
Richard Schwartz teaches US History, American Politics and Government, and World Affairs at Whippany Park High School, where he serves as Social Studies Department Coordinator. He is a past recipient of the Mildred Barry Garvin Prize for the Teaching of Black History awarded by the New Jersey Historical Commission, and he has also received the New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars High School Citizenship Teacher of the Year Award.
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