Chair    Joe Larkin

After earning a Master's Degree from the University of Illinois, Joe joined the U of I staff as editor of the International Journal of Accounting. He then served an internship in museum public relations at the Smithsonian Institution and directed public relations for three major nonprofit organizations in the Chicago region. Currently retired, he concentrates full time on writing. He has won several poetry awards. His poems and stories have appeared in several literary journals.

See Joe's poetry blog at: http://joelarkinpoetry.wordpress.com/

   Co-Chair    Ruan Wright

Born and raised in England, Ruan Wright has lived in the US since 1996. She has print published in America, Great Britain and India. Recent credits include RADIX, ART TIMES, Rosebud, The Taj Mahal Review, and WINDHOVER. She is currently working on a collection of Yoga poems, short stories, and a fantasy novel for 11 to 15 year olds. Her work has received awards and recognition from The Poets and Patrons of Chicago, the ISPS, and the CNW/FFWA. She is a member of the Illinois State Poetry Society, Co-Chair of the Naperville Writers Group, and has served as judge for local youth poetry competitions. She also coordinates the Bolingbrook Writers Group.

   Communications    Wendy Teller

Wendy Teller is a retired Systems Engineer reinventing herself as a writer and historian. She has had several short stories published in the Naperville Sun and is currently working on several projects about the control of atomic energy just after World War II.

   Editor    Janice Hastert

   Membership    Rich Le Cropane

Rich Le Cropane is a repurposed Navy brat who makes his living writing computer software. While he has dabbled in writing for human consumption since his teens, he began to develop his craft in earnest only after his wife suggested that he "shut up and start typing, already." A whole bunch of short stories and a few poems later, he has two novels in the works. Rich lives in Oswego with his very understanding wife and a brace of uppity cats.

   Secretary    Ron Jahr

Ron Jahr, a Naperville resident for twenty-nine years, has worked as an engineer, manager, inventor, and entrepreneur. He presently owns a small business that provides software services to telecommunication companies. He enjoys reading, hiking, travel, in-line skating, and he is a college women's basketball groupie. His writing interests include fiction and non-fiction short stories. Several of his short stories can be found in issues of Rivulets.

   Treasurer    Lisa Luksus