and Writer Members

George Wolfe – George is Professor Emeritus of Musical Performance at Ball State University. He is an accomplished saxophonist and plays in America’s Hometown Band. George is also a widely published, award-winning poet with poems included in many anthologies and lit journals.

Robin Gobetz – Robin is a member of Indiana Writers Center, and she’s been writing a lot of poetry of late. Robin's poetry chapbook, When Father Bet the Farm, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. 

Mike Brockley – Mike is one of the poets with Bards on the Run from Muncie, IN, and is co-founder of the Humpback Barn poets. His prose poems are widely published in lit journals and anthologies. His first collection of poems, Iron Pennies, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag.

Jennifer Criss – Jennifer is a poet from Muncie who participates with the Humpback Barn poets, and who helps with the Muncie Poetry Board Project.

Teresa Holland - Teresa is a poet from Greenfield. Her poetry has been published in various publications. She has poems that are included in the Inverse Poetry Collection (2024) archived with the Indiana State Library. She is also a Guest Columnist for the Daily Reporter. She recently self-published her first children’s picture book

Jeffrey Pearson - Jeff is one of the poets with Bards on the Run from Muncie, IN. Jeff is a past president of Midwest Writers Workshop, he’s the facilitator of the poetry critique group, the Humpback Barn Poets who meet Sundays at Hazelwood Christian Church in The Village, Muncie. He also has poems published and reads his work out and about whenever he can.

Mary Sexson – Mary has retired from being director of Children’s House, where she also taught reading classes. Mary is a widely published, award-winning poet, and is the author of several volumes of poetry, including the chapbook, The Semantics of Grief, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

Helen Townsend – Helen is a poet who lives in Indianapolis. She’s a widely published, award-winning poet. Her poems have appeared in Flying Island, Tipton Poetry Journal, among others. She is the author of Samadhipada: Word Yoga.

Penny Dunning – Penny is the publisher/editor of Chatter House Press, and the editor of the poetry anthology, Reckless Writing, and she’s also hosted essay contests for women writers, Biting the Bullet and Banking the Bacon. She also is a published poet as well.

Lylanne Musselman – Lylanne teaches writing at UIndy, Ivy Tech, Indiana Writers Center, and the E.B. Ball Center. She is a widely published, award-winning poet, and is the author of a volume of poetry, and seven chapbooks. Lylanne contributes a poem bi-monthly for A Pause for Words in the Hancock County Arts Newsletter. Her newest collection of poems, In My Life: A Pop Culture Poetry Memoir, is forthcoming from Chatter House Press. 

Tawn Parent Spicklemire - Tawn is an educator and poet, her poetry collection, The Wrong Place, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2024. She lives in Indianapolis. 

Rachel Andrews – Rachel is a poet from Muncie who participates with the Humpback Barn poets, she is the mastermind behind the Muncie Poetry Board Project and the Muncie Zine Project.

Harold Schaefer - Harold has a B.A. degree in Fine Arts and English from I.U. His poems have appeared in "Keeping the Flame Alive", "Flying Island", "Indiana Writes" and other publications. His poetry can also be found in the Indiana Poetry Archive. He won 1st place in the Riley Boyhood Home 250th American History as poem contest. Two of his poems also won in the ONE poem contest and can be read later this summer on packets of ONE-Vanish Hyperthin condoms.

John Sherman – John is a poet from Indianapolis, and he's the author of several volumes of poetry with his newest being Fussing a Bit: Poems of My Lives. 

Leah Lederman - is a resident/activist of Hancock County. She is Executive Director of Midwest Writers Workshop and is a facilitator for writing groups in Hancock County, for Indiana Writers Center, among others. She’s edited Café Macabre I and II and is author of A Novel of Shorts: The Woman Nobody Sees. She writes nonfiction and poetry.