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Barbara Gray, Director and Board Member
Barbara Gray is the Administrative Manager of the Nemours Center for Pediatric Research and the Nemours Pediatric Lung Center at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. She holds degrees and accreditations from the University of Delaware and Johns Hopkins. Her novel, The Practice Manager, won First Prize for the Novel at the 2005 Sandhills Writing Conference in Augusta, Georgia. In 2006, she was selected to attend the Delaware Division of the Arts Masters' Workshop in Fiction. Her short story, "Aftermath," was awarded second place in the 2008 Out & About magazine writing contest. She is a member of the HillanDale Fiction Writing Group in Newark and is currently working on a novel, Frankie and the Bingo Babes.
Robert Hambling Davis, Board Member
Robert Hambling Davis is a yoga teacher and well-known Delaware writer whose work has appeared in The Sun, Antietam Review, Santa Monica Review, Memoir(and), Delmarva Quarterly, Homestead Review, Philadelphia Stories and Yoga Journal. He has received a Pushcart Prize nomination and Delaware Division of the Arts grants for fiction and creative nonfiction. He was a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Contest. Bob is the primary host of 2nd Saturday Poets, a 30-year tradition of poetry and prose readings in Delaware.
Russell Reece, Board Member
Russ Reece retired in 2007 from his position as Vice President and CIO at Playtex Products. He started writing creatively several years earlier and has had stories and essays published in Memoir(and), Delaware Beach Life, the Delmarva Quarterly, Raving Dove, and other on-line and print journals. Russ is a University of Delaware alumnus. He lives in Bethel, Delaware in rural Sussex County, and is currently working on a novella set in that area in the 1950's.
Bob Yearick, Board Member
Bob Yearick spent 34 years with the DuPont Co. as an editor and writer, retiring in 2000 to become a full-time freelancer. He writes frequently for Delaware Today, and serves as a contributing editor to Out & About Magazine, where his column, "The War on Words," is one of the publication's most popular features. A winner of the Out & About short story contest and several awards from the Delaware Press Association, he is the author of the sports/suspense novel Sawyer, published in 2007. A compilation of his "War on Words" columns is scheduled for publication soon.
JoAnn Balingit, Member at Large
JoAnn Balingit is the current Poet Laureate of Delaware. She is a writer and educator and holds a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware. Her poems have recently appeared in Smartish Pace, Salt Hill, Pearl and in several anthologies. She is a recipient of a Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature and was nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize for her poem, "Your Heart and How It Works." She was awarded the Dr. Norman H. Runge Award in 2008 for her essay, "Some Boy Somewhere." In 2010, she was awarded the Global Filipino Literary Award for her collection of poetry, "Your Heart and How It Works."
Ramona Long, Member at Large
Ramona DeFelice Long works as a writer, workshop leader and independent editor. She is a fellowship recipient from the Delaware Division of the Arts, the Pennsylvania State Arts Council and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). A native of Louisiana, she currently lives in Newark and is active in the local arts community as well as Sisters in Crime, the SCBWI, and the Written Remains Writers Guild. Her short work and non-fiction pieces have appeared in Cricket, Delaware Beach Life, Handspun and FamilyFun. She is the creator of a Facebook group for writers called How Many Pages Did You Write Today? and maintains a personal blog on writing and editing at http://ramonadef.wordpress.com/.
Michael Pollock, Board Member at Large
Michael Pollock is the former Editor-in-Chief of Out & About and Wilmington magazines. He is also a regular contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer and has written for The Source, Pastemag.com and many music magazines that no longer exist. A University of Delaware graduate, Mike lives in Wilmington with his wife and daughter.
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