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SPAWN Board of Directors

Executive Director

Patricia Fry
Charter member of SPAWN, former Associate Director, Vice President and President of SPAWN, author, freelance writer, editorial assistant and publisher at Matilija Press

Board Members

President

Susan Daffron
President and Webmaster for the SPAWN Web site
Author, editor, and publisher at Logical Expressions, Inc.

Treasurer/Secretary

Mindy Reed
The Author’s Assistant

Membership Director

Helen Gallagher
Release Your Writing

Newsletter Editor

Sandra Murphy
Member since 2004, freelance writer of magazine articles, specializing in pet articles.

Board Members

Virginia Lawrence, Ph.D.
Charter member of SPAWN, past Executive Director and Webmaster of SPAWN
Technology Director, Ballantines PR

Tamara Dever
TLC Graphics

Debby Buchanan
Deadly Ink Publishing

Dallas Woodburn
Recent college graduate, author, writing workshop leader, etc. and SPAWN’s new Youth Director

Volunteers-at-Large

Sandi Tyson, Sandra Cropsey, Bonnie Myhrum, Sherrie Giddens.

Advisors

Jim Lane, Dan Poynter, Frances Halpern, Irwin Zucker, Marsha Karpeles

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Mary Embree
Author, Editor, Literary Consultant

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