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Giselle A. Auger
As a child Giselle wrote plays and stories and was editor of her Senior Year High School Yearbook. She majored in independent studies in political communications at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to receive her Bachelor's degree in 1986, then went on to complete her master's degree in international relations at the University of Lancaster in England in 1988. Since then she has worked as a journalist, editor and marketing consultant. In Maine she has written for The Lewiston Sun-Journal, The Scarborough Leader, The Biddeford-Saco Courier, The Old Orchard Beachcomber, and The York County Coast Star. Elsewhere, Giselle has written for the Woonsocket Call and for a business publication in England. In addition to freelance writing, Giselle is the Communications Manager for Kennebec Girl Scout Council, Inc. which provides Girl Scouting to nearly 11,000 girls and 3,000 adult volunteers in an area that encompasses half the state of Maine.
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Meadow Rue Merrill
During her two years covering everything from schools and city government to local scandals and merriment, Meadow won two writing awards from the Maine Press Association including a first place in feature writing. Although she loved the paper, she left in early 1997 when she and her husband, Dana, had their first child, Judah Eli. Now a freelance writer, Meadow frequently contributes to The Boston Sunday Globe. Her work has also appeared in Down East, the Portland Press Herald and Family Circle. She lives in Bath with her family and does what writing she can in between changing diapers and pushing a baby carriage down the city's tree-lined streets. Although her childhood was spent running around barefoot on a farm in Elmira, Oregon, Meadow has grown to love Maine, where she moved with her mother and brother when she was 10. Some of her fondest youthful memories here are of scampering over the rocks on the beach by her grandmother's house in Cape Neddick and of catching sea creatures and building forts of driftwood and broken lobster traps that washed up on shore. Meadow enjoys Maine's spectacular outdoors, and in addition to hiking along the state's coasts and up its mountains, she has spent a year living in Darwin, Australia, and several months in Jerusalem. And, yes, she still reads her stories to anyone who will listen.
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Giselle A. Auger loves Maine. She loves her husband,
family, friends and pets, but Maine holds a special place in her heart. From the moment
she witnessed the wonder of the northern lights in the Western Maine Mountains in 1994,
Giselle knew she was home to stay.
As a child Meadow Rue Merrill liked to write stories for
friends and relatives, and she read them to whoever would listen. The hobby turned into a
profession and her audience grew soon after she graduated from Gordon College in Wenham,
Massachusetts, and took a job as a reporter at The Times Record, a daily newspaper
in Brunswick, Maine.