Meet the Board

Owen Bondono (he/they)
President
Owen teaches high school English, where he is also a union steward. He squeezes in writing between grading, cooking, playing D&D/BG3, and tending a small jungle of indoor plants.

Erika Wagner (she/her)
Vice-President

Lizzy Urlaub (she/her)
Secretary
Lizzy is an epidemiologist by day, writer by night. She enjoys puzzles, paint-by-numbers, and editing a science abstract down to its bare bones for submission.

Beth Bondono (she/her)
Treasurer
Beth works as a barista, and when she’s not slinging coffee, she’s playing tabletop games, crocheting, and putting characters into Situations.

Erin Onslow (they/them)
Director of Community Engagement
Erin writes the newsletter and wrangles the Discord server between tending to their two rambunctious children and very energetic kitten. They are an avid gamer and love to unwind with an MMO after a long day of child wrangling and writing.

Deirdre Cloke (they/she)
Social Media Manager
Deirdre is a self published author who spends their time making fictional characters kiss, crocheting, and watching Star Trek: TNG.

Chesnaye Long (she/her)
Social Media Manager
Chesnaye is a prospective archivist currently in an MLIS program. She handles the IG in between schoolwork, bouts of staring into the void, and indulging in such nerdery as is pleasing (mostly history and Jane Austen).

Gretchen Turonek (she/her)
Trustee
Gretchen works in a not-haunted library and writes stories about people, places, and things that are haunted. When she’s not doing something book-adjacent, she has way too many craft projects started.