2010-2011 AIW Board of Directors
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Executive Committee
President – Mark Tarallo
Contact Mark Tarallo at president@amerindywriters.org.
Secretary – Deborah Wunderman
In addition to serving as AIW Secretary, Deb also chairs the Grants and Development Committee.
Contact Deb regarding Board or Executive Committee matters at secretary@amerindywriters.org, and grantdev@amerindywriters.org for matters relating to grants and development activities.
Treasurer – Ken York
In addition to serving as AIW Treasurer, Ken also chairs AIW Press.
Contact Ken regarding Board or Executive Committee matters at treasurer@amerindywriters.org, and publications@amerindywriters.org for matters relating to AIW Press.
Directors
Perry Frank – Chair, Workshops and Pubspeaks
Contact Perry at board@amerindywriters.org.
Neal Gillen – Chair, Bylaw Update Committee
Contact Neal at policy@amerindywriters.org.
Melissa Golding – Chair, Member Engagement Committee
Melissa Golding launched her commercial freelance writing, editing, and public and media relations business in 2004. Her current and past clients include the National Association for Business Economics, Keppler Speakers, Woodley Park Research, VPP Solutions, the Harry Walker Agency, the International Institute of Forecasters, and the Library of Congress. She has been an AIW member since 1993, holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently working on her first novel.
Contact Melissa at membership@amerindywriters.org.
Clyde Linsley
Self-described as the Board’s “Resident Old Fart,” Clyde had his first novel published in 2000. Three more followed in more or less rapid succession. Remaindering of at least three of the novels followed in equally rapd succession. (One of the three is now back in print. About the others, well, we’ll see.) Clyde has experience in with magazines, association communications and the like. He’s been freelancing full-time since 1986, so he’s dealt with just about everything a freelancer has to experience.
Contact Clyde at board@amerindywriters.org.
Cari Shane Parven – Chair, Annual Conference Committee
Contact Cari at programming@amerindywriters.org.
Charles Salzberg – Chair, New York Events
Charles Salzberg is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, GQ, New York magazine, The New York Times and other periodicals. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the Shamus Award nominated Swann’s Last Song, On a Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place, Baseball’s Worst Teams, and From Set Shot to Slam Dunk. He was formerly a Visiting Professor of Magazine at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and now teaches writing at the Writer’s Voice and the New York Writers Workshop, where he is a Founding Member.
Contact Charles at programming@amerindywriters.org.
Paula Whyman – Chair, Seminar Committee
Paula Whyman is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, including Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review. Her commentary has been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” and her essays have appeared in The Washington Post. Her weekly column, Semi-Charmed Life: Surviving at the Center of the Universe, is featured on Bethesda Magazine’s website. She is the creator of a new online parody newspaper, Bethesda World News. Her fiction is forthcoming in Gargoyle.
Paula has been a visiting writer for the Pen/Faulkner Foundation’s Writers in Schools program in Washington, DC, and for The Hudson Review’s program in Harlem, NY, where her fiction is now part of the curriculum. Before attending graduate school, Paula was a book development editor with the American Psychological Association. She lives in Bethesda, where she is working on a novel. For more, please visit www.paulawhyman.com.
Contact Paula at programming@amerindywriters.org.
