Patricia Lee Lewis, Senior Editor & Publisher (click here to read a sample of Patricia's writing)

Patricia Lee Lewis, founder of Patchwork Farm Retreat, holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College, and a BA, Phi Beta Kappa, from Smith College. She is a Senior Partner in Amherst Writers & Artists. Her poetry, fiction and feature articles are published in journals, anthologies and newspapers. For the past twelve years, she has led creative writing workshops and retreats at Patchwork Farm and sacred sites around the world.

Christine Ménard, Managing Editor (click here to read a sample of Christine's writing)

Christine Ménard lives in Western Massachusetts where she works as a reference librarian. A French native, Christine recently decided to explore her English writing voice. A regular at Patchwork Farm, she writes poetry and short fiction and is interested in issues surrounding bilingual creativity. When the English language becomes too frustrating, Christine quilts, gardens and hikes the Berkshires hills.

Diana Gordon, Poetry Editor (click here to read a sample of Diana's writing)

D M Gordon, Phi Beta Kappa, M.M. from Boston University, is Writer-In-Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she leads weekly workshops and discussion groups on poetry and fiction. She has published several prize winning short stories, and her poems have appeared in Nimrod, as finalists for the Pablo Neruda Award, The Comstock Review, New Millennium Writings, and other journals. This summer she will be leading a poetry retreat for The Great River Arts Institute in Bellows Falls, New Hampshire.

Steve O'Halloran, Poetry Assistant Editor (click here to read a sample of Steve's writing)

Steve O'Halloran lives in western Massachusetts and remains astonished.

Jacqueline Sheehan, Fiction & Creative-Non Fiction Editor (click here to read a sample of Jacqueline's writing)

Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a psychologist, fiction writer, and essayist. She works at Westfield State College in Massachusetts. She is the author of Truth, a novel based on the life of Sojourner Truth. She is a workshop leader for Voices From Inside, a group that offers writing workshops for incarcerated women. Jacqueline teaches yoga and assists Patricia Lee Lewis in the International Writing Retreats in the British Isles. Her web page is www.jacquelinesheehan.com.

Marianne Banks, Fiction Assistant Editor (click here to read a sample of Marianne's writing)

"I am working on my first novel. When I am not writing I help the elderly of Hadley try to make sense of the new Medicare Prescription Drug Plan. I live happily in Leeds, Massachusetts, with a woman whom I can now call my legal next of kin."