Who are the Straw Dogs?
Steering Committee
Board of Directors
Rick Paar
Mary Ann Scognamiglio
Board Officers
President: Christopher J. Sparks
Clerk: Macci Schmidt
Treasurer (ex officio): Becky Jones
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Liz Bedell
roxann Callender
Beth Filson
Alexis Johnson
Rick Paar
MaryAnn Scognamiglio
Stephanie Shafran
Finance Committee
Macci Schmidt
Mary Ann Scognamiglio
Program Committee
The Program Committee seeks out and schedules programming for Straw Dogs members and the greater writing community. We strive to provide a wide variety of presentations and discussions regarding craft, navigating the profession, inspiration and the writing life. The program committee particularly encourages presenters from groups that have been underrepresented in writing and publishing communities. Propose a program here
Sally Bellerose
Michael Goldman – Chair
Becky Jones
Judy McIntosh
Rick Paar
Anna Smith
Vati Sreiberg
Social Justice Committee
The social justice writing committee initiates, plans and carries out projects that address the inequities of our world and seek to illuminate and change them through writing, reading, and literary connection.
Liz Bedell
Sally Bellerose
Beth Filson
Mary Warren Foulk
Ellen Meeropol
Macci Schmidt
Christopher J. Sparks
Nicole M. Young
OPEN MICS
Writers Night Out
Rick Paar
Jacqueline Sheehan
Writers Read/Hilltowns
Publicity Committee
Cherryl Jenson – Chair
Tzivia Gover
Nerissa Nields
Macci Schmidt
Advisory Board
Carol Connare
Consultants
Arianna Alexsandra Collins, Administrative Director
Robin Glenn, newsletter
Interns
Jamie Haines (Spring semester 2018)
Marisa Mizzoni – (Summer/Fall 2019)
Interested in interning with us? email us here