Birdie Curran
President

Author and fellow WGT member, Birdie Curran also serves on the board as the newsletter/marketing chair. She's currently writing a memoir, No Talking,  an insider’s view of teaching in the public school system of Texas, seeking to be a catalyst for change.

Birdie lives in Allen with her husband, daughter, and two cats. She has an MBA in Management and Marketing, and taught high school for 20 years. She owns an Etsy shop full of ephemera, and she volunteers at the local library, leading a letter-writing group and a small business group. 

She is seeking representation for her debut memoir.

Jolea Broome
Vice President

Beth Wise
Membership

Native-born Texan Beth Wise is a blogger and writer who has freelanced for Richardson Living Magazine and has been featured on the parenting blog Rage Against the Minivan. Kate Coyne, former editorial director for People Magazine, once called Beth a “new-gen Anne Lamott.” Beth is currently working on finishing up her first book- a memoir about a project where she did 40 new things before she turned 40. When she isn't putting pen to paper, Beth enjoys camping with her family and doing jigsaw puzzles. You can always find her at www.welderbeth.com.

Gayle Franks
Secretary

Andy Franks
Treasurer

Birdie Curran
Marketing/Newsletter

Tiffany Seitz
Member-at-Large

Tiffany Seitz is a native Texan who began her writing journey in 2013 and enjoys writing romance and mystery with a paranormal twist. She has written four romance novels under the name T. A. Seitz and a paranormal mystery, And They Danced, published in 2023. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and has won awards, including Granbury Writer’s Bloc, Writer’s Guild of Texas, and Writer’s Police Academy. She currently serves on the boards of Writer’s Guild of Texas and Sisters in Crime North Dallas. More information can be found on her website and blog, www.taseitz.com.

Marj Atkinson
Website Admin

Marj Atkinson, MLS, is a researcher and owner of Ask Marj, LLC. She supports authors and businesses seeking research and fact-checking assistance, plus she coaches college graduate students on literature search, writing research papers, and grant search techniques.

She has worked on website content throughout her career and used to teach the elementary school web team at Richardson’s Math Science Technology Magnet way back at the beginning of the World Wide Web.

Ed Wooten
Critique Group Leader

Ed Wooten is a native of South Carolina, a graduate of Clemson University, a product of the 1960s, and a retired Army officer.  He primarily writes historical fiction short stories, but also does flash fiction stories depicting characters and events from conservative, small towns. He has had stories in two anthologies published by the Carrollton League of Writers and the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA) 2023 anthology “Snapshots.”