Robert Hambling Davis, Board Member

Robert Hambling Davis is a well-known Delaware writer with many publishing credits.  He has received a Pushcard Prize nomination and Delaware Division of the Arts grants for fiction and creative nonfiction, and was a semifinalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Contest.  Bob is a native of Newark, Delaware and a yoga teacher at the Hockessin Athletic Club.  His most recent story, "Captain Bum's March on Suburbia," will be published in the spring 2009 issue of Santa Monica Review.    

Barbara Gray, Director and Board Member

Barbara Gray works as the Administrative Manager of the Nemours Center for Pediatric Research and the Nemours Research 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 recent 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.

Michael Pollock, Board Member

Michael Pollock is the Managing Editor of Out & About and CityLife magazines.  Along with his editorial responsibilities, Mike is also a freelance music writer whose work has appeared on AllHipHop.com and Prefixmag.com and in Punk Planet, diw, Verbicide, and Elemental.   A University of Delaware graduate, Mike lives in Wilmington with his wife and their brilliant yellow Labrador Retriever.

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 the Delmarva Quarterly, Raving Dove, and Beginnings magazines.  Russ attended the 2005 Delaware Division of the Arts Masters' Workshop in Fiction.  He is a University of Delware alumni and a member of the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild.  Russ lives in Bethel, Delaware in rural Sussex County, and is currently working on a novel set in that area in the 1930'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 continues as a consultant with DuPont, writes frequently for Delaware Today, and serves as associate editor of and contributor to Out & About Magazine. A winner of the Out & About short story contest, he is the author of the sports/suspense novel Sawyer, recently published by Bayoak Press. He is on the board of the Delaware Press Association and the Delaware Literary Connection.