Committee Leadership

Steering Committee

WRITERS, READERS, FRIENDS, BOOK LOVERS

*David Abrams *  Erin Almond * Steve Almond * Sherry Amatenstein * Vera Anderson  * Jessica Anthony  *Nava Atlas * Carolyn Atwood *  Fredi August *  Paul August *  Yasmin Aza * Aimee Lee Ball *         Jennifer Barber * Abigail Bardi *  Mary Ann Barton * Richard Bausch * Laney Katz Becker*  Barbara Beckwith * Karen Bender * Elizabeth Benedict * Louise Berliner * Susan Bernhard * Elizabeth Birk * Sven Birkerts * Robin Black *   Jeanne Blasberg *Leanna James Blackwell * Rebecca Bloom * Debra Borden * Taryn Bowe * Maryn Boess *  Cat Bennett * Susan Breen * Marsha Browne * Anne Brilliant * Lynne Brilliant * Kimberly Brock * Barbara Brooks * Jennifer S. Brown * Laura Brown * Janet Burak * Diane Butkus * Marcia Butler *  *Robert Olen Butler * Linda Button Toni Buzzeo * Miriam Camitta * Linda Cardillo * Sim Carter * Christopher Castellani * Mark Cecil * Diane Chamberlain*  Breena Clarke * Janet Clare * Jon Clinch * Paul Cody *  Susann Cokal * Charisse Coleman *  Martha Collins  * Susan Conley * Martha Cooley * Renee Combs * Cecile Corona *Kimberly Costigan *  Stephanie Cowell * Nancy Creighton * Debra Cross *  Lisa Cupolo * Linda Cutting * Julie Carrick Dalton *  Alice Elliot Dark * Anthony D’Aries *  Matthew Daub * Stephen Dawley * Katherine Day * Timothy Deer * Amy Dryansky   * Katrina Denza * Virginia DeLuca *  Anita Diamant * Jane Dietzel-Cairns * Sarah Divers * Margot Douaihy * Vladimir Drobotsky * Sharon Duckett * Elaine Durbach * Cheryl Dryz * Cindy Eastman * Kim Edwards * Catherine Elcik * Jonathan Escoffery * Robert Eversz * Judith Bolton-Fasman * Juliette Fay * Jessica Fein * Joan Fernandez * Lucy Ferris * Jennie Fields * Janet Fitch *  Molly Fisk * Sherrie Flick * Tessa Fontaine * Jody A. Forrester * Therese Fowler * Susan Weissbach Friedman * Stephanie Gangi * Julie Gerstenblatt * Ethan Gilsdorf * Julia Glass *  Laura Glenn  * Ellen Goldberg Naama Goldstein * Amy Gottlieb * Kim Gottlieb-Walker * Iris Gomez * Mary Granfield * Elizabeth Graver * Bry Grey * Lynne Griffin * Shalene Gupta * Desmond Hall  * Aaron Hamburger * Elizabeth Hand * Jessica Handler * Maureen Hanley * JoeAnn Hart * John Hassan * Tommy Hays * Susan Henderson * John Hodgkinson * Elizabeth Holmes *  Ann Hood *  Richard Hoffman * Pam Houston * Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough * Lynne Hugo *  Allan Hunter *  Susan Ito *  Karol Jackowski * Lannette Johnson * Lauren Johnson * Nancy Johnson *  Amanda Johnston *  Elizabeth Kahrs * Deborah Kalb * Daphne Kalotay * Anu Kandikuppa * Hester Kaplan * Gail Kesich * John Kessel * Judith Kessler *  Beth Kephart * Crystal King * Susan Kirkvold * Katrina Kittle  Julie Klam *  Michael Klein * Susan Knight *Charles Knight* Debbie Koenig *  Christine Koubek Flynn * R.O. Kwan * Kimberly Lake *  Maya Shanbhag Lang *  Drew Larimore *  Angela La Voie * Erin LaRosa * Anne Leahy * Della Leavitt *  Amy Lederman * Leslie Lehr *  Elizabeth Letts *Julia Lisella  * Elinor Lipman * Aimee Liu * Margot Livesey * MG Lord *  Michael Lowenthal * Cathy Luna *  Arthur Mahoney *  Deirdre Mahoney * Rebecca Makkai *               Clarence Major * Maureen Manning * Courtney Maum * Louise Marburg * Ray Marsocci * Megan Marshall *Cynthia Martin * Marissa Martin * Gale Massey * Suzanne Matson * Mary Maxwell * Sarah McCoy *  Nancy McGlasson * Catherine McKenzie * Catherine Mazur-Jefferies * Ellen Meister * Ann McDonel *  Eric McNulty * Adam Medros * Andrea Meyer * Liz Michalski * Kris Millard * Emily Miller *  Louise Miller * Sandra Miller * Luana Mitten * Geri Modell * Rick Moody * E.B. Moore * Tim Murphy *  Kelly Mustian * Madeleine Mysko * Marie Myung-Ok Lee *  Ann-Marie Nieves * Celeste Ng * Maryanne O’Hara * Rénee Olander * Ellie O’Leary * Ammi-Joan Pacquet * Pamela Painter * Tracey Palmer * Jodie Paloni * Catherine Parnell*  Ann Patchett *Jodi Picoult * Beverly Pierce * Maureen Pilkington *  Anne A Pinkerton * Heidi Pitlor * Heidi Parton * Laura Porter * Melissa Pritchard * Barbara Linn Probst * Virginia Pye * Jamie Quatro *  Kate Racculia * Joanna Rakoff * Jennifer Reardon *  Pamela Reznick *  J. Stephen Rhodes  * Teresa Rhyne  * Holly Robinson * Dana Robbins * Julie Rold * Jane Roper * Dan Rose * Robert Rosen * Jennifer Rosner * Emily Ross  * Claude Rothman* *Marjorie Roemer* Marilyn Rothstein * Deborah Rovner * Lindsey Royce * Joan Ruark * Dana Sawyer *  Rebecca Scarpati *  Tom Schabarum * John Sheirer * Kathleen Schmidt * Diane Schmidt * Linda Schreyer * David Scott * Ronee Segal * Susan Seltzer * EM Senuta *  B.A. Shapiro * Kathleen Searle * Susan Schaefer * Julie Wittes Schlack*   Peggy Shannon *  Thomas Schabaru * Suzanne Strempek Shea  * Tommy Shea  * Jacqueline Sheehan * Katherine Sherbrooke *  sid sibo *  Ellen Silberman *  Elizabeth L. Silver * Linda Sienkiewicz *  Dell Smith * Helene Solomon Smith *  Mary Katherine Spain *  Debra Spark *  Evelyn Starr *  Vicki Stiefel *  Marshall & Helen Stein *  Shelley Blanton Stroud * Robert Stutts * Beth Kephart Sulit *  Renee Swindle * Janet Sylvester   *  Lisa C. Taylor * Missy Tippens *  Melissa Tucker  * Julia Park Tracey * Jessica Treadway * Kim Triedman * Dawn Tripp *  Charlotte Troyanowski  * Kathy Tully*   Lara Tupper * Katia D Ulysse *  Laura van den Berg *  Elina Vasbeyn * Lu Vickers * Luis Alberto Urrea * Kris Waldherr * Meta Wagner  * Jerald Walker * Amy Wallen * Therese Walsh * Jane Ward * Brooke Warner * Meredith OBrien Weiss * Wesley Weissberg * Gerald Whelan * Kate Whouley * Theresa Ann Alshire Williams *  Robert Wilstein * Lissa Winstanley * Ellen Marie Wiseman * Sidney Woods * Donna Woonteiler * Mako Yoshikawa * Steve Yarbrough * Victoria Zackheim *  Bob Zeanah *

A note: Many included on this list are those who joined our Writers for Blue group in 2024—the genesis of WDA-MA.  If you would like your name removed, please email us at wda.masschapter@gmail.com. 

Thank you.