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Zach Hanner is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a major in performance
studies. A former editor at citysearch.com, Zach has contributed to Durham’s
Independent Weekly, the Wilmington Star-News, the Myrtle
Beach Sun-News and a number of other music and entertainment-related
publications. A professional actor as well, Zach has worked in the
Wilmington and New York areas for the past 14 years, appearing in
Forrest Gump, The Patriot, Domestic Disturbance,
Black Knight and Runaway Jury as well as numerous commercial
and television projects. He writes and directs children’s theater for
Wilmington’s Journey Productions and is an active contributor to the
Cucalorus Film Festival. Ukulele player and front man for Wilmington’s
Hawaiian band Da Howlies, Zach also plays bass in the surf guitar band The
Noseriders. An avid surfer, both styles of music complement his love for the
ocean. Zach lives on the gorgeous Intracoastal Waterway with his wife,
Dagmar, and their son, Beck. Their dogs, Violet and Maestro, provide endless
entertainment and their bothersome cat, Veronica, does not.
Rebecca Pierre has years of
experience in business writing, including package labeling, job descriptions
and procedures, personnel, volunteer and resident newsletters, personnel and
volunteer handbooks, employee surveys and a weekly column on volunteerism in
a local daily newspaper. Rebecca began writing freelance after she moved to
Oak Island in 1992. Her writing has been published in periodicals including
the Pelican Post, the Independent, Focus on the Coast
and Attaché Magazine, the in-flight magazine for USAirways. Her
experience writing award-winning poetry brings discipline, an economy of
words and vivid descriptions to her work. Her first book of poetry, A
Mystery of Moon, was published in the spring of 2005. |
A love for fiction led
Emily
Gorman-Fancy to Wilmington for a master of fine arts in creative writing
at UNCW. While there she wrote a novel and a collection of short
stories, both works in progress. Her background in journalism includes
contributing more than 200 articles to national, state and local
publications. She has been honored to receive recognition for her
writing, including a William Randolph Hearst Award and a Reader's
Digest scholarship. Emily lives in the historic Sunset Park
neighborhood with her husband, Ben, baby daughter, Ava, and black Lab,
Lulu.
Kate Walsh
lives to travel. Some of her favorite adventures include kayaking North
Carolina's coastal waterways, riding her bike from Paris to the
Mediterranean Sea, swimming in the Amazon River with pink dolphins, and
piloting a houseboat down the Lot River in France. Kate wrote, produced
and directed television for 20 years and is currently pursuing her
master of fine arts degree in creative nonfiction. Kate has lived in
Surf City for 15 years.
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