Paul Redstone: Hampshire County Resident. I enjoy the writing of poetry as my effort to get my mind around some of my varied life experiences and emotions. There is something Read More
Posts by Straw Dog Writers Guild
Then and now by Michael Favala Goldman
Michael Favala Goldman is a widely-published translator of Danish literature and a jazz clarinetist. He leads poetry workshops at the Northampton Center for the Arts and is a member of Read More
To the Unclaimed Bodies in NYC by Joyce Hayden
Straw Dog Writers member, Joyce Hayden, with Franklin County connections, recently completed her memoir The Out of Body Girl. Her work has been published in Maximum Middle Age, The Manifest Read More
Isolate by Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is the author of over 387 published books including ten books of adult poetry. She has won multiple awards for individual poetry, prose, children’s books and science fiction/fantasy Read More
Virus By V. Jane Schneeloch
V. Jane Schneeloch is a resident of Hampden County and a member of Straw Dogs. Her poetry collections include: Turning Over Leaves (Antrim House Books, 2015) and Climbing to the Read More
What day is it By Ruth Lehrer
Ruth Lehrer is the author of the young adult novel, BEING FISHKILL (Candlewick.) She is a Pushcart nominated poet, with poems scattered through the web and woods. A Strawdog member, Read More
Spring Flowers amid COVID19 By Dixie Brown
Dixie Brown: I am a writer who lives in Hampshire County. I work as a writing coach at the Commonwealth Honors College at UMass. I love to hike in the Read More
He’s Not Gonna Take It By Chris O’Carroll
Chris O’Carroll is author of The Joke’s on Me. He has been Light magazine’s featured poet, and his work appears in Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle and The Great Read More
Rightful Rage by Andrea Della Monica
Andrea Della Monica is a former newspaper journalist and creative non-fiction writer whose work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications, including Hippocampus and Glimmer Train. She Read More
Funerals from Afar by Sarah B. Sullivan
Sarah Sullivan, a member of Straw Dog Writers Guild and resident of Northampton, MA in Hampshire County, is a poet, physician, teacher, ocean-lover, partner, parent, friend, meditator, searcher. She is Read More