The Monadnock Writers’ Group and the editors at Smoky Quartz would like to share heartfelt gratitude for all of the great work and expertise of editors whose tenure has ended, and to welcome our newest members to the team.
Brian Evans-Jones and Ginny Masters gave of their time and talents to help create the Fall 2023 issue of Smoky Quartz. We are grateful to them for the high quality of that issue as they go on to do other things.
And we are overjoyed to welcome our newest editors: Karen Drew, Mame Ekblom Cudd, Sharon A. Harmon, and Shana Chartier. Karen, Mame, and Sharon are part of the editorial team, and Shana is part of the production team. We are glad to have you.
New Team Members
Editorial
After retiring from her practice as a marriage counselor/family therapist to raise a family, Mame Ekblom Cudd returned to her first love: short stories and poetry. Her work has appeared in Crack the Spine, Fiction, The Puritan (renamed Ex-Puritan), SNReview, Epiphany, The Broad River Review, Shark Reef, and Smoky Quartz. She received an Editor’s Choice Award from Fiction Fix (University of North Florida) for her story Calling Out To Lizzie. She attended The Community of Writers Conference in the Olympic Valley (2009 and 2011). She currently resides with her husband, Jim, in Marlborough, New Hampshire.
Karen Drew is retired and living in Washington, NH, after 20 years in corporate communications and 20 years in special education. A lifelong writer, Karen’s poems have appeared in Lost & Found, The 2010 Poet’s Guide to New Hampshire, The Poet’s Touchstone, Defining Moments: An Anthology of Teachers’ Writing, Vol. 9 (Plymouth Writers Group, 2004), and Smoky Quartz: Tenth Anniversary Anthology.
Sharon A. Harmon has poetry published in The Patterson Literary Review, The Aurorean, Compass Roads, Silkworm, Writing the Land Northeast, and Migrations and Home: The Elements of Place. She is an editor for Quabbin Quills, a non-profit supporting New England writers. She was the Poet Laureate for Royalston, Massachusetts’s, 250th Anniversary. Sharon has recently published two children’s books and writes magazine articles. She is working on another picture book and a fourth chapbook of poetry, Trailer Park Children. A traveler, hiker, and camper, Sharon lives deep in the woods of Royalston with her husband.
Production
Shana Chartier is Director of Information Literacy at Southern New Hampshire University as well as an author of fiction, poetry, and short stories. In her spare time, she likes to go adventuring around New England with her children and play with her irrationally large number of pets.
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